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Financial services leaders cite increased future revenues and improved future profitability as leading reasons to deploy cloud technologies, according to a financial services study by Capco. The report identifies the key trends and opportunities ahead and offer insights to allow financial services institutions to become cloud leaders.
The survey results highlight a strong need to gain better visibility into cloud costs while reducing the burden to the affected DevOps / IT teams that are responsible for those costs. As multi-cloud adoption has accelerated - 71% of organizations leverage more than 3 cloud infrastructure providers - it has become significantly more challenging to track, understand, and properly attribute cloud costs to their appropriate teams.
MariaDB announced key findings from its survey that shows no one's staying behind as businesses move forward with database migration to the cloud. Those surveyed included IT Heads, DBAs and software developers, all of whom had some responsibility for the selection and management of databases-and all said their business' cloud database migration was in place, in progress or planned.
While most major cloud providers do a decent job of keeping data secure, the majority of business users take an upload-it-and-forget-it approach to their data security needs. In reality, cloud providers can only protect a business's data if the business does its part by adhering to some cloud security best practices.
In 2021, securing your network is more challenging than ever - you need to secure users, devices, apps, and data at the point of access, working at the cloud edge to deliver protection and performance. Your choice of cloud security platform and partner is key, as it will serve as a foundation for the way you grow and evolve to meet new challenges - for example, meeting the new standards defined by Gartner as part of their forward-thinking secure access service edge architecture.
Why is a web filtering important and what are the main features necessary for MSPs? Managed service providers have been struggling with finding the right web filtering solutions. Web filtering is necessary for businesses because it prevents the staff from accessing malicious and harmful content while using the corporate network or while working from home, besides offering other advantages like monitoring their performance and keeping it to the maximum to ensure productivity.
According to the Statista Cloud Market Share publication, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform are the three largest cloud service providers, having captured over 60% of the market between them. The cloud is no cyber security panacea, and data breaches involving the cloud show no sign of abating.
The Cloud Security Alliance released the findings of its latest survey which offers insight into companies' plans regarding cloud and security strategy, cloud services, and cloud-related technologies. "Cloud is a continuously evolving space with new services, strategies, and technologies springing up seemingly overnight. It's imperative that organizations regularly change and adapt their approach to cloud and cloud security," said Hillary Baron, lead author and research analyst, Cloud Security Alliance.
The report found that of companies using multiple cloud platforms, 48% are also taking a hybrid approach by utilizing both public and private clouds. To get a better understanding of what these multi and hybrid cloud environments look like, and to identify the common challenges and opportunities shared by developers, IT teams, and companies working to become cloud-native, 416 US and UK IT decision-makers were surveyed in Q4 2021.
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