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3 Essential Cybersecurity Strategies for 2020

CDW Research Hub

There are also an increasing number of tools and strategies recommended to handle this challenge. Cut through the complexity with these three crucial strategies for improved cybersecurity. Use a data classification strategy to help you identify the varying values of your data so you can treat it accordingly.

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO Business Intelligence

They tend to utilize a castle-and-moat security strategy focused on the network perimeter. We even copied that perimeter defense strategy to our cloud environments by building virtual firewalls to control access to those applications. Reassuring staff their jobs are secure, but being clear that the way they do their jobs may change.

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Rethinking data analytics as a digital-first driver at Dow

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s digital world, the ability to make data-driven decisions and develop strategies that are based on data analytics is critical to success in every industry. This not only involves transforming data into a competitive advantage but rethinking how we use and distribute D&A across our business and functions.

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Implementing Digital Sovereignty in the Journey to Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Continuing with current cloud adoption plans is a risky strategy because the challenges of managing and securing sensitive data are growing. Businesses cannot afford to maintain this status quo amid rising sovereignty concerns. This is becoming a priority as sensitive data volumes are growing exponentially.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Business drivers for the first wave of digital transformation through 2020 targeted growth, data capabilities, cloud migration, and delivering competitive technology capabilities. AI is a fundamentally different set of technologies that requires a separate strategy and capabilities.” And a key facet of that is data management.

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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies that used to be able to put the virtual brick walls around the building and say they’re secure on the inside now have too many openings — to the cloud, partners, customers, employees — for that strategy to be viable.”. 13, respectively. It’s not about cost control; instead, we talk about investments for value.

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Want to be a hybrid cloud winner? The recipe for XaaS success

IBM Big Data Hub

Empowering your hybrid cloud strategy A pivotal aspect of modern IT environments blends the cost-efficiency, scalability, privacy and dependability advantages of both private and public clouds. According to IDC, 78% of IT organizations agree that XaaS offerings are a key part of their future strategy.