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Cybersecurity is the number one technology priority for planned digital transformation projects as businesses adapt to a surge in remote working as a result of COVID-19. Most significant barriers to digital transformation projects.
"An influx of data from multiple tools, coupled with low levels of automation, can have a paralyzing effect on IT incident management processes," said Jen Garofalo, IDG's Research Director. "More than 40% of respondents indicate IT incident remediation is handled with a mix of manual and automated processes, while another 20% report these processes are mostly manual."
Enabling customers to design and build solutions for a variety of smart video workloads, Western Digital announced its expanded family of WD Purple storage solutions, including the industry's highest capacity 18TB surveillance HDD for DVRs, NVRs and analytics appliances, and the 1TB WD Purple SC QD101 microSD card for AI-enabled cameras. Setting the bar for smart video applications, all WD Purple drives are optimized to help reduce frame loss and pixelation, improve overall video playback and enhance streaming for 24×7 workloads - from ingest to backup and long-term storage - as the industry broadens the use of deep learning and analytics.
Success in the digital economy requires organizations to move beyond a traditional, cost-sensitive view of infrastructure and adopt a broader recognition that a responsive, scalable, and resilient cloud-centric infrastructure will help drive revenue while aligning technology adoption and IT operational governance with positive business outcomes. The transition to a cloud-centric digital infrastructure, which is already underway within many organizations, depends upon commitment to a digital strategy accompanied by a new set of key performance indicators focused on resource optimization, consistent resilience, and continual enhancement.
The GAIA-X Initiative announced that it is one step closer to its goal of a trustworthy, sovereign digital infrastructure for Europe, with the official signing of incorporation papers for GAIA-X AISBL, a non-profit association that will take the project to the next level. "We are deeply motivated to meet the challenges of the European digital economy," said Servane Augier, COO at 3DS OUTSCALE. "Through GAIA-X, we are building, all together, a sovereign and reliable digital infrastructure and an ecosystem for innovation in Europe. In this way, we will strengthen the digital sovereignty of businesses, research and education, governments and society as a whole."
The period has seen strong transaction volume growth compared to 2019 but an overall decline in global attack volume. The EMEA region saw lower overall attack rates in comparison to most other global regions from January through June 2020.
Kingston Digital announces the availability of the 128GB DataTraveler 2000 encrypted USB flash drive. DataTraveler 2000 features an alphanumeric keypad that allows users to lock the drive with a word or number combination for an easy-to-use PIN, providing an extra layer of protection.
Schlumberger, IBM and Red Hat, announced today a major collaboration to accelerate digital transformation across the oil and gas industry. Through the agreement with IBM and Red Hat, Schlumberger has committed to the exclusive use of Red Hat OpenShift.
Signifyd, CTI Digital and supercharged commerce announced a partnership that combines the digital experience of two of Europe's premiere agencies with Signifyd's superior fraud and abuse prevention expertise. The combination of CTI Digital and supercharged creates an agency ecosystem with incredible breadth to serve ecommerce, not-for-profit organizations, trade bodies, public sector agencies, higher education providers, construction businesses, professional services companies and leisure organisations.
Underscoring its mission to enable the world to solve its biggest data challenges by building a data infrastructure with next-gen security, Western Digital introduced the ArmorLock Security Platform. A data encryption platform that rethinks how data security should be done, the ArmorLock Security Platform was created to help with the diverse security demands of data-centric and content-critical storage use cases in industries as varied as finance, government, healthcare, IT enterprise, legal, and media and entertainment.