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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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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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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.

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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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CIO Ryan Snyder on the benefits of interpreting data as a layer cake

CIO Business Intelligence

A data and analytics capability cannot emerge from an IT or business strategy alone. With both technology and business organization deeply involved in the what, why, and how of data, companies need to create cross-functional data teams to get the most out of it. That strategy is doomed to fail. What are the layers?