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As cloud adoption continues to grow, it is crucial companies understand how security can impact operations in the cloud and what the ramifications are if their environment is not adequately protected. There are numerous components to consider when establishing your cloud adoption strategy and security policies, including data, users, applications, infrastructure, and more.

Today, nearly all organizations have adopted the cloud to modernize their operations, enable rapid innovation, and accelerate growth. The 2022 Cloud Security Report, a global survey of 823 cybersecurity professionals sponsored by Fortinet, reported that almost 40% of enterprises are running more than half of their workloads in the cloud. Moreover, that percentage is expected to increase to nearly 60% by 2024.1 Many of these organizations have multiple disparate security solutions deployed, with few that integrate.

The world is heading toward a digitized future. Already, an entire generation has grown up immersed in the digital world. Digital transformation — or the widespread adoption of digital technologies to disrupt business models, create efficiencies, and enhance customer experience — is reinventing core aspects of human existence, from homes to industry, buildings to cloud, and beyond.

The term “network edge” has been in use for decades in the networking community and refers to the interface point of computer networks and the internet and is an important security boundary. This paper focuses on the “network edge”, “a location where a local edge data center interfaces with the Internet/cloud to support data-intensive and ultra-low latency applications.”1 For simplicity, we call these data centers “distributed network edge data centers” for the rest of the paper.

Global organizations are managing ongoing pandemic-related challenges—supply chain issues, worker shortages, and the continued need to respond to changing regulatory health and safety mandates. Businesses across industries are moving forward, leveraging technology to rebuild customer relationships, automate and streamline business processes, and increase revenue.

Planning your cloud strategy? Need to optimize costs without sacrificing functionality or adoption speed? Leverage an assigned team of VMware® experts that works with your organization to help optimize workloads, take advantage of powerful VMware attributes, including cloud native capabilities, and accelerate innovation across your VMware environment.

Enterprise customers often request advice and learnings from Amazon Web Services (AWS) on how to accelerate the velocity of their cloud transformation. This whitepaper describes an integrated approach to achieve speed and accelerate time to value while maintaining control and corporate guardrails. This approach enables teams, delegates decision rights, promotes experimentation, and leverages a continuous improvement mindset. The approach provides IT and business leaders with a mechanism to tailor and scale their value -driven cloud transformation programs.

Companies are realizing that the cloud is not just an infrastructure strategy—it’s a powerful business strategy. Using the cloud, organizations can exceed customer expectations, operate more competitively, and enhance bottom -line results. Explore what that could mean for your organization in this detailed re port that leverages key insights from IDG’s most recent cloud computing study. And discover the three critical ways a successful cloud deployment can enhance customer experience, facilitate innovation, and boost business outcomes.

The ability to inform decision-making with data helps organizations across a range of industries foster innovation and improve business outcomes. But, becoming genuinely data-driven often requires a significant reinvention of a company’s existing data culture. The transition is particularly challenging for large enterprises that grew and thrived on data siloed by function or department. This timely content from the MIT Sloan Management Review redefines “data-driven” for the modern era and explores the ways today’s businesses use data insights to drive growth and disrupt markets.

Cloud-powered services create benefits for all types of companies, yet most enterprises are merely scratching the surface of what’s possible in the cloud. According to a 2021 analysis by McKinsey, $1 trillion in run -rate EBITDA is up for grabs between now and 2030. Early cloud adopters will secure a disproportionate share of that value by gaining experience and building differentiated capabilities. Download this report from AWS and Entrepreneur to explore strategies that can help your business test and deploy products and services, measure their effectiveness, and make data-driven decisions on whether to scale up or pull back.

The adoption of digital transformation, cloud computing, and Infrastructure as a Service all have brought business new found success. However as an unintended consequence nearly all of an enterprise digital assets are accessible by third, fourth, and Nth parties — far outside the corporate security perimeter.

If you’re like most businesses, the volume of data you collect, create, and store is growing exponentially: the world’s data is expected to nearly triple between 2020 and 2025. Making sure you have room to store it all while keeping it secure and accessible to the applications and staff that need it is creating challenges you might be facing in your organization.

Most legacy backup solutions in the market today aren’t very good. Challenges include IT admin’s lack of the time, resources, and energy to proactively tackle real business challenges. The frustration is real! You’re not alone. IT pros around the globe feel your pain! This quick read is designed to help you understand the most common reasons other organizations have switched their primary backup solution and why now is the best time to make this switch.