In order to gain insight into how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives are impacting IT purchases, Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed 400 IT professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada), UK, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand involved in IT product and service purchase decisions.
Between data quality issues, distributed data, over-burdened teams, rising costs, and increased risk, the complexity of today’s data ecosystem hinders democratization of data and analytics. This is a big reason organizations are turning to DataOps, an agile, automated, and process-oriented methodology used by data stakeholders to improve the quality, delivery, and management of data and analytics.
Determine the extent to which organizations have shifted power to new personas who influence and make decisions when it comes to utilizing an analytics platform that enables rapid and reliable insight. Understand the tipping point for all data stakeholders, including data engineers, IT, developers, and end-users who enable the democratization of data and analytics platforms to the business. Gain insights into what matters most to businesses and end-users based on where they are in their data-centric journey, from data engineering and tooling to automation and collaboration. Gauge buyer preferences for different capabilities, features, and guidance to help enable data-driven success.
More organizations are turning to the public cloud to support data initiatives, many of them using cloud services from both cloud providers and third-party software vendors. Within 12 months, sizable majorities of organizations plan to run various data management and analytics tools on public cloud infrastructure. Hybrid environments that also include on-premises systems often need to be maintained, but investments in cloud-based technologies clearly are on the rise to help meet data-driven business goals.
The public cloud is a good match for modern data needs and goals, and organizations increasingly recognize that as part of their data analytics strategy. The benefits they’re gaining will drive further adoption of public cloud services to support data initiatives. But there are challenges that must be overcome to ensure that cloud analytics deployments are successful. This research provides insight into the top benefits and challenges of using the cloud.
The need for rapid insight is forcing organizations to prioritize agility, transparency, and speed across their data ecosystems with a goal of improving operational efficiency, improving collaboration, and accelerating time to value from investments in support of data-driven initiatives. But organizations need help ensuring seamless orchestration, appropriate management, and timely delivery of data in support of the people, tools, processes, and environments that fuel their business. Between data quality issues, distributed data, tool proliferation, overburdened and under-skilled teams, rising costs, and increased risk, the complexity of today’s data ecosystem hinders democratization of data and analytics. This is a big reason why organizations are turning to DataOps—an agile, automated, and process-oriented methodology used by data stakeholders to improve the quality, delivery, and management of data and analytics. And the wide belief is that establishing DataOps will set organizations up for success as they look to achieve a data-driven future through an agile, process-oriented approach to securely accessing and analyzing data at scale.
The ransomware threat is a top-of-mind issue for many organizations, but few feel totally prepared for an attack. IT organizations are building their own processes to respond, but many are confused about the scope of what is to be included and even who is responsible for the implementation.
In order to establish a framework for modern ransomware preparedness, Enterprise Strategy Group surveyed IT and cybersecurity professionals personally involved with protecting against ransomware attacks and developed the 5 pillars of ransomware preparedness.
ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT and cybersecurity professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) and Western Europe (UK, France, and Germany) between December 21, 2021 and January 10, 2022. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be IT and cybersecurity professionals involved with the technology and processes associated with protecting against ransomware.
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on understanding the proactive and reactive measures organizations have in place to defend against the growing ransomware threat, and identifying the priorities and plans associated with mitigating the ransomware threat in the coming 12-18 months.
From frequent attacks on critical systems to major data recovery issues and financial impacts, ransomware consequences refuse to be ignored.
See the data behind these trends and more with this Enterprise Strategy Group Infographic, 2022 Ransomware Landscape.
The ransomware threat is a top-of-mind issue for so many organizations; however, few feel totally prepared for an attack. Without an industry reference architecture or blueprint for ransomware protection, organizations are building their own strategies and processes to respond. But with ransomware protection included with so many different security and data protection solutions, many are confused about the scope of what is to be included, who is responsible for the implementation, and who needs to be involved in the conversation.
In order to connect the dots between those organizations that feel most prepared and the specific strategies and plans they are using to get there, with an eye on defining best practices, ESG surveyed 620 IT and cybersecurity professionals personally involved with the technology and processes associated with protecting against ransomware attacks at midmarket and enterprise organizations in North America and Western Europe.
For more information on this research, please visit www.esg-global.com/ransomware.
I am at VeeamON 2022 in Las Vegas this week attending the event in person. I had the great opportunity to spend time with a few key executives from Veeam and discuss their latest release and plans for the future.
Discover why IT organizations consider the cloud critical to fueling data-driven success with this Enterprise Strategy Group Infographic, Cloud Analytics Trends.