Category Archive for : ‘Trends’

In the IT/tech industry, or any other industry for that matter, it’s easy to search for the trends and successes that are catapulting companies to success. However, it’s a good idea to look at what isn’t working. That’s why InformationWeek included a question about the mistakes 100 IT leaders made in an extensive survey.

More specifically, the survey questioned the IT experts about the mistakes they made when it came to working with vendors. Following are several of their most commonly cited vendor mishaps. Maybe they will help you determine where

As if the data center industry needed another reminder of vulnerabilities facing companies, a widespread cyber attack recently impacted millions of personal devices connected to the internet, including routers and security cameras.

According to a representative for Dyn, which was the primary target, the incident was unprecedented. “What we discovered was that it was a part of an botnet attack called the Mirai botnet, which basically goes into folks’ homes and takes over Internet of Things devices and literally turns them into attack vectors,” said Kyle York, chief strategy officer, in

As companies continue to seek out solutions using the cloud, companies are increasingly turning their attention to analytics/business intelligence — in addition to cybersecurity, according to an annual survey released by the Society for Information Management (SIM).

These trends are necessarily new. However, the survey did reveal that many companies are now considering “innovation” a top priority as part of the IT category.

Based on the survey, which included responses by IT managers and CIOs, innovation gained more importance since 2014 — from eighth most important management concern to fourth most cited concern

Many organizations aren’t implementing cybersecurity measures enough to protect them against future risks — a trend that could cause as many as 60 percent of them to suffer major service failures by 2020.

That was among the findings in recent research conducted by the research firm Gartner. The special report points to the increasing transition to digital business along with the shift to external services outside of the IT department’s control. Those are areas that could potentially lead to cybersecurity risks, according to Gartner.

Cybersecurity will become increasingly critical as a result

Financial, medical and retail institutions are just among the few entities put on alert in the wake of crippling cyber attacks. Now a U.S. government agency is calling on automakers to take measures to guard against cyber attacks, especially with the emergence of new vehicles that increasingly rely on electronic and computer systems that are susceptible to hacks.

The new guidelines, which were recently issued by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, propose developing layers of protection that are capable of securing vehicles throughout its life expectancy.

“Cybersecurity Best Practices for

There’s no question the demand for IT is increasing, spurred by a digital revolution that includes Internet of Thing devices and Big Data. And it’s a challenge for companies to identify ways to implement renewable energy initiatives to offset the power used by data centers.

According to the results of an AFCOM State of the Data Center survey, 70 percent of IT specialists reported that their companies’ power density had increased during the previous three years, with 26 percent of them describing it as a significant hike.

As a result, these companies

Climate change is among the trends projected to impact the data center industry within the next 5 years, according to forecasts by researchers. And the growing acceptance of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices will continue to shape the future of data centers.

Research firm Gartner predicted that 90 percent of large data centers will respond to widespread environmental and socioeconomic trends by revising their strategies.

Based on research by Gartner and other industry experts, the following are changes that will force IT professionals to adapt through innovation:

Demand for increased security. While

As connectivity grows, so do threats to the IT infrastructures under your care—and, by extension, your organization’s ability to profit and serve its customers. Security strategies that worked fine in the not-so-distant past have grown woefully inadequate as the technology terrain shifts.

You’ve probably heard the acronym SIEM being thrown around a lot these days and for good reasons. As security experts, we know that perimeter defenses simply aren’t enough anymore, and we need a holistic view of our IT infrastructures.

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) provides that insight, arming us

In my last post, we discussed the latest habit of non-IT departments in organizations large and small: hatching rogue IT operations on the cloud, taking your company’s data for a spin in the Wild, Wild Web — unpatched, unprotected, and nearly undetectable.

To recap, this trend involves departments buying IT services online through vendors like Amazon Web Services, Google Services, Microsoft Azure and others, setting up off-the-books IT operations outside of your organization’s boundaries.

These departments have come to rely on these services to conduct business. Shutting them off is not an

“The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.”—FedRamp website

That sounds positive, but getting approved for the FedRAMP certification is far tougher than most cloud providers anticipated. In fact, few organizations are truly capable of making it through the process. As shared by an article in GCN:

“Of more than 80 cloud providers who have applied to go through the FedRAMP certification, more than half are not yet ready to