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As a result, far too many organizations have now reached the point of having to either lower their expectations by limiting growth and innovation or increase their risk by disabling security. What's needed is an entirely new approach to both networking and security.
Despite a global pandemic, direct digital transformation investment is still growing at a compound annual growth rate of 15.5% from 2020 to 2023 and is expected to approach $6.8 trillion as companies build on existing strategies and investments, becoming digital-at-scale future enterprises, according to IDC. Digital transformation investment predictions. The economy remains on course to its digital destiny with 65% of global GDP digitalized by 2022 and will drive over $6.8 trillion of direct DX investments from 2020 to 2023.
With Western Digital SMR HDDs serving as the storage foundation for its custom-built, multi-exabyte storage platforms, Dropbox continues its strategic path, taking advantage of the highest storage densities with the lowest TCO without sacrificing data durability and availability for its 600 million+ online customers. "We've been working with Western Digital for many years, and throughout several phases of our storage platform development," said Andrew Fong, vice president of engineering, Dropbox.
A few months ago, the U.S. National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert stating, "We are in a state of heightened tensions and additional risk and exposure" across OT and control systems, which are critical to operations and therefore valuable for attackers. While we've quickly pivoted to put in new solutions and processes to address a new, distributed model, what do we do next? How do we take what we've learned this year, capitalize on the change in mindset that it is possible to move fast, and apply it to seize the OT security opportunity in 2021? Here are three areas of focus to help you build on your progress.
IBM announced it will accelerate its hybrid cloud growth strategy to drive digital transformations for its clients. "IBM will focus on its open hybrid cloud platform and AI capabilities. NewCo will have greater agility to design, run and modernize the infrastructure of the world's most important organizations. Both companies will be on an improved growth trajectory with greater ability to partner and capture new opportunities - creating value for clients and shareholders."
Bandos will bring more than 15 years of experience to the position including his five years as VP of Cybersecurity at Digital Guardian. Prior to joining Digital Guardian, Bandos was Director of Cybersecurity for Dupont where he was responsible for overseeing internal controls, incident response and threat intelligence.
More than half of survey respondents increased mainframe platform data and transaction volume by 25% or more, signaling its ongoing importance in the digital business environment. "The Mainframe Survey validates that businesses see the mainframe as a critical component of the modern digital enterprise and an emerging hub for innovation," says Stephen Elliot, Program VP, Management Software and DevOps, IDC. "They're putting it to work more and more to support digital business demands as they strive to achieve greater agility and success across the enterprise."
Britain's enemies are investing more and more in cyber warfare capabilities, the UK's top general has warned - singling out Russia and its "Digital authoritarianism". "China's new Strategic Support Force is designed to achieve dominance in the space and cyber domains," said the professional head of the armed forces.
Nearly six in ten organizations have accelerated their digital transformation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an IBM study of global C-suite executives revealed. Traditional and perceived barriers like technology immaturity and employee opposition to change have fallen away - in fact, 66% of executives surveyed said they have completed initiatives that previously encountered resistance.
On Tuesday, Microsoft released its annual Digital Defense Report providing a glimpse of the trends shaping the cybersecurity landscape during the last year. The Digital Defense Report analyzes cybersecurity threats from the second half of 2019 through the first half of 2020.