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Hybrid Cloud Enables IT Transformation
Over the last 12 months, there has been a sustained increase in adoption of hybrid cloud strategies designed to enable digital transformation. During a recent analyst day, Rackspace Technology, announced offerings designed to best govern the hybrid cloud.
January, 2021
Security Training Adoption and Best Practices 2021
Security training is a business best practice that involves the training of all IT and user personnel in a company’s security policies, procedures, and best practices to increase awareness and ensure compliance. It is a highly advisable practice for every organization. Many companies report the existence of security training, yet there is ample room for improvement. This report begins by defining security training and summarizing the main types of training available. We next study the adoption and practice levels and examine those by organization size and sector. We conclude with best-practice recommendations.
April, 2021
Avasant NASSCOM Digital Enterprise Report – A New Order Out of Chaos
Avasant and NASSCOM have come together to analyze the enterprise perspective on the disruptions caused by the pandemic and what it takes to build a resilient organization. We conducted a detailed survey of about 280 enterprises across industries to understand the enterprise outlook regarding their operational continuity, digital investments, financial health, and workforce strategy. The report also offers a perspective on the potential opportunities for service providers with respect to current and future digital requirements.
February, 2021
IT Project Manager Staffing Marches to New High
As IT organizations move more of their operations to the cloud, the mix of required skills needed is changing, with most infrastructure-support roles falling as a percentage of the staff, and higher-level roles rising. Project management is one job position that has been steadily increasing over the past five years. This research byte discusses what is behind the rise and provides a summary of our full report on IT project management staffing ratios.
May, 2021
Enabling an Ecosystem of Innovation for the Intelligent Enterprise
Avasant, in partnership with Capgemini and Amazon Web Services, hosted a virtual roundtable for a group of senior-level executives to discuss practical ideas and high impact strategies for transforming into an Intelligent Enterprise. What resulted was an powerful knowledge exchange around enterprises’ accelerated shift to Cloud and platform-based services, and the emergence of an AI-First enterprise that leverages data driven insights and hyper personalization to forge digital experiences.
March, 2021
Thriving in the New Normal: Enabling Hyper-Scale and Agile Business Through Hybrid Cloud
Avasant, in partnership with HCL Technologies, NetApp, and Cisco, hosted a digital forum that brought together a unique partnership of technology leaders who have pioneered a standardized model that can drive rapid deployment, migration and scaling of hybrid cloud. What resulted was the convergence of thought leadership and practical strategies around enabling hybrid cloud for business agility and sustainable innovation.
March, 2021
Avasant Digital Forum: Disrupting Media & Entertainment: The 5g Enabled Future
5G will have a disruptive impact on Media & Entertainment industry thanks to significant improvements in transmission speed, quality, and reliability, which will drive innovation in content, distribution, and end-user technologies. Lower latency and cost will enable live streaming of events and augmented reality shows on mobile devices. Higher speed and bandwidth will allow the entertainment industry to create more personalized and immersive experiences.
February, 2021
Avasant Digital Forum: The Age of Cyber Crime: Mitigating the Impact of Data Breaches
The recent Solarwinds breach has shown that cybercrime is a rapidly increasing threat to businesses and has become an inevitability. The business impact can range from loss of data to damaged consumer confidence and significant financial liabilities. While investing in cyber security is critical, there’s a fiduciary responsibility to have a mitigation plan against damage to business reputation and trust from a data breach. It’s important for every company to be prepared to handle the breach lifecycle – from Incident management to Impact assessment, Communication, Breach resolution and Recovery.
March, 2021
Remote Learning—a Strategic Priority for Educational Institutions
Digital content is growing exponentially as a result of the proliferation of smart devices and evolving customer preferences. With more than 3.8B people accessing digital content on a regular basis, media & entertainment companies are upgrading the quality and quantity of content to increase customer engagement. Moreover, the use of digital technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics is playing a critical role in providing personalized services to include special recommendations, globalized content, experiential entertainment, and customized communications to customers. These trends are covered in Avasant’s new Media & Entertainment Digital Services 2021-2022 RadarView™ report .
August, 2021
Avasant Digital Forum: Digital First Healthcare: Re-Imagining the Customer Value Chain
The Healthcare business teams need the correct data in-hand to serve customers faster and more efficiently. Today, they are dependent on vastly distributed and complex systems which do not provide real-time views with business context. Without business context it’s impossible to derive meaningful actionable insights in order to improve customer experience or fuel business growth. Rising cost complexities, interconnected systems and mounting regulatory pressures makes it imperative to know not just what went wrong, but why it went wrong in real-time. Simply looking at IT observability provides limited value to business operations teams.
March, 2021
IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2020-2021: Full Study
Our IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study for 2020/2021 provides a comprehensive view of the current state of IT budgeting and staffing levels for business and governmental organizations in the U.S. and Canada, based on our 31st annual survey. Detailed metrics are provided by organization size and by industry sector.
July, 2020
Deploying Low-Latency Applications in the Cloud
Conventional wisdom is that some systems that require low latency and a high degree of system availability, such as warehouse management systems (WMS) or manufacturing execution systems (MES), are best deployed on-premises. Nevertheless, cloud systems are invading even this category of software. This research byte highlights one example.
March, 2021