Teckedin - 2021 Curated Analysis, Surveys, Trends and Reports
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| VentureBeat - Researchers are working toward more transparent language models | Many studies demonstrate the shortcomings of this training approach. Even GPT-3 struggles with nuanced topics like morality, history, and law; language models writ large have been shown to exhibit prejudices along race, ethnic, religious, and gender lines | Natural Language Processing |
| ZDNet - GitHub's 2021 State of the Octoverse report finds devs flourishing in changing times | Despite the ongoing shifts in how and where developers are operating, GitHub found coding milestones are actually being reached faster. This is due to a combination of more efficient review frameworks, an 87% boost in speed resulting from reused code and toolchains, and the expanded use of automation. | DevOps |
| VentureBeat - The top 5 enterprise analytics stories of 2021 (and a peek into 2022) | In addition, Gartner’s report predicts that adaptive governance will become more prominent in 2022: “Traditional one-size-fits-all approaches to data and analytics governance cannot deliver the value, scale, and speed that digital business demands. Adaptive governance enables data and analytics leaders to flexibly select different governance styles for differing business scenarios.” | Data & Analytics |
| PCWorld - The tech that died in 2021 | But amid all the highlights, 2021 also gave us some sad goodbyes. Some were storied products beloved by many, while others were failed experiments, or items that we barely knew were there | Tech Trends |
| ZDNet - Amazing things happen when IT and business leaders collaborate. Here's the data to prove it | "Digital IQ leaders" were more likely to invest in cloud technologies, including enterprise applications, infrastructure, and development platforms. These Digital IQ leaders account for about one-fifth of all surveyed tech execs; | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - 13 reasons CIOs worry about citizen developers building enterprise apps | Two popular technologies citizen developers use to build new apps are robotic process automation, RPA, and low code application platforms, LCAPs. RPA helps automate tasks typically using UI-based record and playback technology, eliminating the need to integrate systems in a workflow. | Automation & Productivity |
| Diginomica - 2021 in review - the year of data-driven everything | Being data-driven means using modern connected digital technologies to deliver pervasive access to data that's as fresh as possible, and in the context of everyday operational decision-making. | Data & Analytics |
| healthleaders - Survey finds healthcare Execs bullish on AI | Some 72% of respondents say they trust AI to support administrative processes that would otherwise be handled by clinicians, thereby allowing providers to spend more time on patients and patient care. When asked about using AI in clinical care, 41% said they were excited about the potential for AI in virtual patient care, while 40% saw a future in diagnoses and predicting outcomes and 36% saw potential in medical image interpretation. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - 22 digital twins trends that will shape 2022 | Here are 22 ways that advances in these tools and new uncertainties in the world economy are likely to play out in 2022 across core capabilities, medicine, construction, and sustainability. | Digital Trends |
| Schneider Electric SE - The Next Evolution Of IT Space Management For Colocation Providers And CIOs Of Hybrid IT Data Centers | In this new environment, we believe it will no longer be enough for a colocation provider to only provide an SLA - their customers will demand insight and 'proof' that the colo provider has the systems and tools in place to meet that SLA. | IT Management |
| strataScratch - 7 Differences Between a Data Analyst vs a Data Scientist | A data analyst does what the name implies - she looks at data, tries to predict trends, makes visualizations, and communicates the results. In other words, data analysts analyze data. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - What will applied AI look like in 2022? | In 2021, with lessons learned from operationalizing AI, the emphasis is now shifting from shiny new models to perhaps more mundane, but practical, aspects such as data quality and data pipeline management, all of which are important parts of MLOps. Like any discipline, MLOps sees many products in the market, each focusing on different facets. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxcentral - Can Cloud Vault Shield Against Ransomware? | Data security vendors have begun to extend their on-premises cyber vaults to the cloud, aiming to air-gap critical data from the rest of the customer environment for improved security against ransomware attacks. | Cloud |
| Computerworld - You can safely ignore Web3 | People aren’t talking about Web3 because it’s happening or going to happen. They’re doing so because they’re part of that minority with an ideological commitment to blockchains and the ideals of Web3 — or they hope to make boatloads of money. | Emerging Tech |
| electronicsforu - Optical Chip That Can Efficiently Solve Complex AI Problems | The newest development called Photonic Arithmetic Computing Engine (PACE) claims to solve some of the hardest mathematical problems out there at 100x speed faster than a conventional computing processor. | Emerging Tech |
| Fedscoop - 2021 in review: Oversight questions loom over federal AI efforts | Still the White House launched the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force and the National AI Advisory Committee, both authorized by the National AI Initiative Act of 2020, hoping to strengthen the U.S.’s competitive position globally, which may prove a losing battle absent oversight. | Artificial Intelligence |
| PCWorld - Microsoft’s wins, fails, and WTF moments of 2021 | Microsoft 365 is now almost a must-have for businesses and consumers alike, because of the value all of these add. It’s been an enormous success for Microsoft as a whole | Automation & Productivity |
| threatpost - 5 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2022 | “Building on earlier analysis of companies across the United States that could present a strategic risk to the country if disrupted (known as the “Section 9″ list), Congress will deliberate about how the federal government can help manage systemic cybersecurity risks to the U.S. economy and society, to include mission-critical functions in key sectors like healthcare, elections and energy.” | Security |
| eWeek - 5 Edge Computing Trends in 2022 | Not only will the rise of IoT devices fuel edge computing, but it will revolutionize various industries such as healthcare and education. In fact, IoT devices within edge computing deployments are being leveraged in the healthcare industry right now to help track evolving data sets and monitor facilities remotely. | Tech Trends |
| GovTech - The Top 22 Security Predictions for 2022 | We again see forecasts of more government compliance rules, 5G challenges, APTs, deepfakes getting really dangerous, privacy concerns, and another year of healthy growth in technology and cyber companies. | Security |
| VentureBeat - How open source is powering data sovereignty and digital autonomy | “In an environment of shifting privacy laws, it’s increasingly difficult for businesses to analyze all critical data quickly, and at scale, while ensuring compliance.” | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - What data management leaders see for the sector in 2022 | CTOs and IT managers at all levels will be defining and testing terms like "data as code" and "just-in-time" data analytics for their own production use cases. | Data & Analytics |
| SupplyChainBrain - Procurement in 2022: The Year Ahead Is Run by AI | Automation will allow procurement teams to cut through inefficiencies arising from the fact that they and legal are looking at the same document through very different lenses. Procurement is focused on optimizing commercial terms, while legal wants to minimize risks and comply with regulations | Automation & Productivity |
| Bdaily News - Technology experts give their predictions for 2022 | Often technology is considered to be the first line of defence, but the first line of defence is actually users. Right now, people don’t consider standard technology and users part of the greater supply chain because it does not feel like a security issue. The fact is simply using email is a supply chain concern. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Why IoT is the cornerstone of AWS’s zero-trust strategy | For the first time in its annual trend analysis, Gartner prioritizes machine identity management for CISOs and their security teams. AWS’ decision to release IoT ExpressLink now and fast-track enhancements to AWS IoT Greengrass shows its approach to zero-trust security being hardened at the endpoint first. | Security |
| ZDNet - Low-code and no-code platforms move beyond the shiny-tools stage | "We need to enable people who aren't programmers to develop the software they need. We need to enable people to solve their own computational problems." At the same time, "programmers know their jobs won't disappear with a broad-scale low-code takeover, but undeniably their roles as programmers will shift as more companies adopt low-code solutions." | DevOps |
| VentureBeat - 2021 was a breakthrough year for AI | Tipalti, an automated accounts payable platform, bagged the biggest investment of the month at $270 million, followed by Dialpad ($170 million), SnapLogic ($165 million), and Smartling ($160 million). | Artificial Intelliigence |
| threatpost - Global Cyberattacks from Nation-State Actors Posing Greater Threats | We have seen increased interest in consumer internet of things (IoT) and home-router zero-day exploits, with attacks following close behind. In the past, the home as an attack vector was rarely interesting to sophisticated nation-state attackers or cybercriminal gangs, but we should expect to see more activity in this area over the coming year. | Security |
| sdxcentral - Cloud Value Gap Remains Modernization Challenge, PwC Says | And one of the causes is an inability to measure the return on the cloud investments, which combines a lack of clear business cases at the outset and long-term use cases that “stand the test of time and a degree of specificity of what an organization is trying to achieve,” | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Three CIO imperatives in 2022 | In addition to all the challenges of digital transformation, creating a compelling customer experience requires gathering, analyzing, and understanding customer data. Actions based on data can run the gamut from redesigning products, rethinking processes to be more customer-friendly, or personalizing sales offers to be intuitive, helpful, and not creepy. | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - Why AR, not VR, will be the heart of the metaverse | This is why the metaverse, when broadly adopted, will be an augmented reality environment accessed using see-through lenses. This will hold true even though full virtual reality hardware will offer significantly higher fidelity. | AR/VR |
| AiThority - Global Cloud Managed Services Market Key Players, Covid-19 Impact Analysis And Size Is Expected To Grow USD 139.4 Billion By 2026 | North America has been an extremely open and competitive market in terms of the adoption of cloud managed services solutions across verticals, such as healthcare, IT, and manufacturing. It is the topmost region in adopting cloud managed services. | IT Management |
| ZDNet - Analytics and AI in 2022: Innovation in the era of COVID | Instead, this year's predictions (for next year) focused on broader business or even societal issues, many of which stem from the world's collective experience of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it has imposed | Tech Trends |
| IndustryWired - Influencing Small Data with Artificial Intelligence in 2022 & Beyond | If zero data is a problem, then handling big data is an even hectic task. Yes, an overemphasis on big data threatens the existence and undermines the potential of several artificial intelligence approaches. Therefore, a disruptive view on using data effectively for business goods is essential. | Data & Analytics |
| yahoo!finance - Blockchain: Exploring the building blocks of Web 3.0 | It focuses on connecting data in a decentralised way, rather than having it stored centrally, with computers able to interpret information as intelligently as humans. | Blockchain |
| Infinidat - The Top Storage Trends for 2022 | The shift to hybrid cloud and container technologies will continue to proliferate at an accelerated pace. With many workloads moving to a hybrid cloud configuration, it will be imperative to have the infrastructure that supports core, edge and cloud, as well as the virtualization layer and the container layer across a hybrid environment. | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Kubernetes security will have a breakout year in 2022 | The fact that “shift left” has caught on suggests that big strides can now be made in terms of Kubernetes security, he told VentureBeat. Getting companies to grasp that securing containerized apps will involve bringing security earlier into the app development lifecycle is a crucial step. | Security |
| Forbes - Transforming Big Data Initiatives Into AI Insights: Board Directors And CEO’s Must Improve Their Digital Literacy | Technology architectures of moving all corporate data to the cloud for end users to easily access and distribute data access across multiple machines, while using the pooled power and storage to surmount monolithic bottlenecks is a top CIO priority globally. | Data & Analytics |
| Infor Inc - 5 Ways Infor CloudSuites Help Manufacturers Expand Work-From-Anywhere | Where do you start? Your digital initiatives, if already underway, will provide a foundation of cloud storage, remote access to data, and a secure infrastructure. You can further enhance the employee experience by offering a remote digital experience, allowing access from anywhere in the plant or a removed location. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - 10 reasons to combine digital twins and synthetic data | Synthetic data tools tend to focus on improving AI development workflows. Digital twins’ capabilities tend to be infused into industry-specific applications for product development, manufacturing, construction, and medicine. | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - In 2022, security will be Linux and open-source developers job number one | According to Gartner's 2021 Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software (OSS): "Through 2025, more than 70% of enterprises will increase their IT spending on OSS, compared with their current IT spending. Plus, by 2025, software as a service (SaaS) will become the preferred consumption model for OSS due to its ability to deliver better operational simplicity, security, and scalability." | Security |
| VentureBeat - Robotic process automation in 2022 | Craig Le Clair at Forrester Research predicts that every RPA company will either embrace AI or “become a dinosaur”. While this may never become strictly true, there’s no doubt that RPA is one of the simpler vectors for inserting AI into corporate DNA. The standard modules tackle tasks like optical character recognition, machine learning, and machine vision. | Automation & Productivity |
| techENT - 2022 and Beyond – Technologies that will Change the Dialogue | This approach to Edge, where we separate the edge platforms from the edge workloads, is critical since, if each edge workload creates its own dedicated platform, we will have proliferation of edge infrastructure and unmanageable infrastructure sprawl. | Edge Computing |
| InfoWorld - How digital twins improve physical systems | Digital twins are an exciting emerging technology that demonstrates the convergence of many different technologies, including machine learning, IoT, data streaming, and augmented reality. It will bring a new era of innovation, safety, and efficiency to many industries. | Digital Twins |
| VentureBeat - Why DevSecOps offers the ‘most transformative’ approach to application security | But an effective DevSecOps strategy is not actually about bringing security to developers, according to Dooley. “It’s about security teams having more of a DevOps mindset—not DevOps having more of a security mindset,” he told VentureBeat. | Security |
| The Enterprisers Project - Digital transformation: 4 tips to be a successful IT leader in 2022 | Digital transformation does not fail because of a lack of good ideas or strong design; it fails because many company cultures are ill-equipped to flex their rigid legacy structures in favor of innovation and progress | Digital Transformation |
| Network World - Don’t let bad press about Open RAN sink your private 5G plans | Vendor lock-in is bad for users, and bad for up-and-coming vendors, but great for incumbents. Of the top three mobile infrastructure vendors (Ericsson, Huawei, and Nokia), only Nokia is seen as being truly committed to Open RAN. | 5G |
| techENT - Six Edge Computing Trends to Watch in 2022 | “With the shift to edge computing, we are seeing a massive investment in RISC-V across the ecosystem, from multinational companies like Alibaba, Andes Technology, and NXP to startups like SiFive, Esperanto Technologies, and GreenWaves Technologies designing innovative edge-AI RISC-V solutions.” | Edge Computing |
| VentureBeat - How AI, VR, AR, 5G, and blockchain may converge to power the metaverse | Several of the technologies that will enable the metaverse, including virtual and augmented reality and blockchain, have been slow to mature but are approaching a level of capability that is critical for success. Each has been missing the killer app that will drive development and widespread adoption forward. The metaverse could be that app. | Emerging Tech |
| Fast Company - The 7 most overhyped trends of 2022 | An overhyped trend can be something so sweet that it leaves a sour taste in your mouth, or so in the spotlight that it leaves more important topics in the shadows. | Tech Trends |
| PYMNTS.com - Remittance Platforms Tap Behavioral Analytics to Reduce Fraud, False Positives | Dependence on legacy systems, failing to put customer service or communication channels in place to address problems or the inability to differentiate between fraudsters and legitimate customers are all pain points that could add friction to the payments experience. | Data & Analytics |
| sdxcentral - 5G’s Killer Apps: Fixed Wireless Access, Edge, Private Networks | “5G is now the fastest growing, last mile broadband technology and it’s really gaining scale,” he said, adding that 3G and 4G LTE technologies are not ideal technologies for home broadband. Qualcomm predicts at least 25% of global data traffic will be provided by 5G within five years. | 5G |
| AiThority - The Case for an Enterprise-Wide QR Code Strategy | In addition to campaign-level data, QR codes can also serve as the gateway for high-value zero-party data. That could be hugely important at a time when Google and Apple are implementing serious restrictions on the third-party data that has to date been the lifeblood of online advertising and marketing. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Report: Computer vision teams worldwide say projects are delayed by insufficient data | The research also indicates that these training data challenges come in many forms and affect CV teams in near-equal measure. The top issues experienced by CV teams include poor annotation (48%), inadequate domain coverage (47%), and simple scarcity (44%). | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - You might not like the term ‘zero trust,’ but the concept is on point | Moreover, threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Outsiders testing outer firewalls for a way in have been replaced by targeted phishing attacks, malware and other techniques that can be used to turn an insider – a trusted user or application – into an attack vector | Security |
| sdxcentral - Is Multi-Cloud SD-WAN’s Final Destination? | Due to the limited resources available to an edge location, an application may only run as long as it needs to before shutting itself down again. By comparison, the cloud and the virtual machines running on it are relatively stable and the connections to them more permanent. | Cloud |
| EconoTimes - Government's Cyber Security Strategies vs. Cyber Criminals’ Attack Strategies | The types of cyberattacks against government agencies vary wildly, as evidenced by a 2021 Statista report. Not all agencies suffered the same types of attacks, and not all agencies fell victim to each type of attack. | Security |
| VentureBeat - 10 data-driven strategies to spark conversions in 2022 | In this article, we will discuss ten powerful data-driven CRO strategies you can use to convert your web visitors and social followers into leads and leads into paying customers. | Data & Analytics |
| InfoSecurity - Unique Cyber-Attacks Fall for First Time Since 2018 | They said that this trend was primarily by a decline in ransomware attacks and the fact that a number of large cybercrime gangs have seen their activities curtailed by law enforcement. | Security |
| The Fast Mode - Telcos Set to Tap $200B Edge Computing Market by 2026, Says STL Partners | Despite 49% of enterprises in sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and transport & logistics already exploring edge computing, the report acknowledges that many operators have so far found it challenging to capture a significant amount of this demand and generate revenue. | Edge Computing |
| Network World - 5G wireless WAN will have benefits beyond 4G WWAN | Instant-on starter connectivity can also power instant-on resumption of access for relocated employees. As soon as it is powered up in the new office space, the WWAN router can bring a workgroup relocated from one office building to another back online. | Network Management |
| DATAQUEST - Is security keeping pace with growth for cloud native enterprises? | For example, cloud-native applications, by their nature, are dynamic and use a combination of serverless functions and multiple cloud platforms. Unlike traditional on-premise models, where the enterprise security team only needed to protect the specific server on which the application was hosted, cloud-native applications do not have a fixed perimeter. | Cloud Security |
| VentureBeat - 5 ways the world of IT operations will shift in 2022 (and beyond) | A recent Gartner survey found that nearly two-thirds of IT executives believe a talent deficit is the biggest barrier to rolling out emerging technologies. | IT Management |
| New Study Finds Over 96% of CV Teams Already Using Synthetic Data for Visual ML Models | The study reveals a once fragmented field beginning to coalesce around the promise of synthetic data to help mitigate frequent project delays and cancellations. | Data & Analytics |
| InformationAge - Tech trends to watch in 2022 | The distinction between web3 and the current internet – web 2.0 – is reliance on blockchain, and the decentralised data and governance that goes along with it, in an effort to tear down the walled gardens built by tech giants over the past two decades. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Top 6 trends in data and analytics for 2022 | For instance, log files, genomics data, audio, video, image files and the like don’t fit neatly into data warehouses because they lack a consistent structure, which means it’s hard to search across the data. Because of this, data lakes end up becoming data swamps: it is too hard to search, extract and analyze what you need. | Data & Analytics |
| Mimecast Limited - In Cybersecurity, Speed Matters: How To Shorten The ‘OODA Loop’ | The good news is that the continuous arms race drives innovation among the security community not just among our adversaries. APIs enable us to combine the power of innovative security tools in ways that are only limited by our imagination. | Security |
| Computer Services Inc - The Top 5 Cyber Threats Facing The Financial Industry In 2022 | Many institutions opt for a SIEM-as-a-Service (SIEMaaS) model to handle the burden of monitoring and reduce costs, both upfront and ongoing. With SIEMaaS, a third party-such as a managed security service provider (MSSP)-collects all event logs and sends them to an outsourced SIEM | Security |
| Thoughtworks - Transformative business use cases for blockchain and cryptocurrency | It allows ecosystem members to jointly maintain important digital records that are trusted by all the parties — which represents a huge efficiency gain. They can deploy digital smart contracts between each other, rather than rely on myriad hand-processed one-to-one agreements, or on a third party to coordinate them all. | Blockchain |
| Forbes - The Hidden Cost Of Cloud Migrations: Are You Sacrificing Data Quality In The Move? | These data clouds are driven by startups with sky-high valuations, such as Databricks, and by IPO record-setters like Snowflake. Enterprises have invested heavily in these new tools, but one key factor is being overlooked: ensuring data quality. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Report: Only 6% of B2B buyers avoid significant CX issues | However, digitally savvy buyers today are having mixed experiences, which is impacting their loyalty and weakening current supplier relationships. This could explain why, while many B2B buyers are turning to online channels to order and reorder from current suppliers, as many as 74% are going online to evaluate new suppliers instead. | Customer Experience |
| Semiconductor Engineering - EDA In The Cloud Is Driving Semiconductor Innovation | In the current highly competitive environment where the cost of semiconductor design and manufacturing has soared, innovative cloud-enabled solutions are what the semiconductor industry needs to address quality requirements, time-to-market schedules, and high-cost challenges. | Cloud |
| Diginomica - 2021 in review – the year in the future of work | Another hugely important consideration is taking a proactive approach to employee health and wellbeing to cope with rising levels of burnout. The idea is that just sticking in a nice initiative and hoping for the best won’t cut it – dealing with the cause rather than the symptoms is vital if you want to make a material difference here. | Automation & Productivity |
| Data Center Dynamics - Data centers with dishes: How the cloud is driving a merger between data centers and ground stations | Where once ground stations were entirely separate and largely siloed pieces of infrastructure, they are now becoming increasingly tightly connected to and colocated at data centers as the amount of satellite data increases. At the same time, the industry is undergoing its own transformation towards virtualized infrastructure offered via an as a service model. | Data & Analytics |
| eMarketer - 2022 predictions: Internet and network outages will continue to get worse before they get better | With the return-to-work time frame pushed back by pandemic surges and the surfacing of new variants, it is quite likely that the remote work reality will continue throughout 2022. However, it’s unlikely that network and cloud providers can scale rapidly enough, especially given the various component and fiber shortages. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - These will be the 5 most in-demand tech jobs in 2022 | Necessary cloud architect skills will include experience with programming languages such as Python, Ruby and Elixir, a background in IT engineering and excellent leadership skills. | Tech Jobs |
| ZDNet - Storage 2022: Active archiving, ML-enabled volumes on the rise | So people are seeking alternatives for the increasing cost of cloud storage – along with affiliated fees for egress and data protection. One of them is active archiving, in which data initially stored in a cloud (or multiple clouds) is automatically shipped to cold-storage tape archives after a set period of time. | Data Storage |
| Datanami - New SlashData Report: 5.6M Developers Use Kubernetes, an Increase of 67 Percent Over One Year | Today there are 6.8 million cloud native developers – 4.6 million using container orchestration tools and 4 million developers using serverless platforms, with an overlap of 1.8 million using both. | DevOps |
| VentureBeat - Faster, safer, more efficient data processing with Edge AI | Edge AI that has been incorporated into a microchip can have a sub-millisecond latency as the data never leaves the device. The decentralized nature of the technology allows machine-learning algorithms to run autonomously. There are no risks of internet outages or poor mobile phone reception. | Cloud |
| AiThority - Predictions Series 2022: AiThority Interview with Matt Watts, Chief Technology Evangelist, NetApp | For example, cloud financial operations (FinOps) will improve through increased automation and the development of smarter applications. Cloud providers will deliver more services through containerized solutions and microservices. | Tech Trends |
| SiliconANGLE - PitchBook predicts agtech and AI will lead emerging technology funding in 2022 | In addition, Pitchbook predicts that insurance technology M&A activity will see a strong increase, driven by incumbent acquisitions. “Internet of things” and operational technology security startups will also not miss out, with PitchBook predicting that 2022 will produce an IoT/OT security billion-dollar public listing. | Emerging Tech |
| ZDNet - Quantum computers: Eight ways quantum computing is going to change the world | And as it turns out, randomness is a fundamental part of quantum behaviour: the particles that make up a quantum processor, for instance, behave in completely unpredictable ways. This behaviour can, therefore, be used to determine cryptography keys that are impossible to reverse-engineer, even with the most powerful supercomputer. | Quantum Computing |
| Mimecast Limited - State CIOs Rank Security As No. 1 Priority For 9th Year | Over 80% said they intend to adopt or expand identity and access management solutions in the next two to three years. The same goes for performing continuous enterprise cybersecurity assessments (69%), introducing or expanding a zero-trust framework (67%) and conducting cybersecurity awareness training (56%). | Security |
| The Fast Mode - 2022: The Year of the Telco Cloud | Expect more operators to enter into prominent cloud partnerships, especially with the “Big Three” (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform), both to host operators’ own cloud-native network functions and bring new applications to customers. This trend will work the other way too as cloud providers inch towards delivering telecommunications capabilities of their own with services like AWS Outpost. | Cloud |
| SecurityWeek - 5 Ways to Reduce the Risk of Ransomware to Your OT Network | Extend the scope of your risk governance to include anything that is a cyber-physical asset. This includes all Industrial IoT, industrial control system (ICS), and Enterprise IoT components. | Risk Management |
| ZDNet - Log4j flaw: 10 questions you need to be asking | NCSC calls Log4Shell "potentially the most severe computer vulnerability in years" and called upon company boards to treat this bug with urgency. It stresses the Log4j bug – also known as Log4Shell – is a software component rather than a piece of software, which means it will be much more complicated to patch. | Security |
| Wired - Big Data May Not Know Your Name. But It Knows Everything Else | The irony that data brokers claim that their “anonymized” data is risk-free is absurd: Their entire business model and marketing pitch rests on the premise that they can intimately and highly selectively track, understand, and micro-target individual people. | Data Privacy |
| ZDNet - CIO priorities: 10 challenges to tackle in 2022 | Next year will see the best CIOs take their focus on customer experience to a new level. They'll reach out to a wider ecosystem of partners from big tech firms to fleet-of-foot startups. They'll focus on how their organisations use data to provide personalised services and products to customers. | IT Management |
| AiThority - Identity Theft Is Out And Identity Fraud Is In; The Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2022 Predictions Indicate Major Shifts | Some people are likely to disengage entirely from emails because they believe the risk is too great. That could lead to a return of “old school” communications like telephone and postal mail. | Privacy & Security |
| sdxcentral - HPE, Dell, and Cisco Push Network-as-a-Service. Will Enterprises Bite? | NaaS is essentially a delivery model for networking products. It typically includes on-demand usage, a consumption-based billing model, self-service capabilities, and elements such as network routers, switches, gateways, and firewalls, according to Gartner. | Network Management |
| Threatpost - Robocalls More Than Doubled in 2021, Cost Victims $30B | Scam call traffic is up 116 percent over 2020; averaging about 425 million calls every week. According to T-Mobile, it cost wireless customers a projected $29.8 billion in 2021. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Ruled by algorithms, gig workers remain powerless against automated decision-making | The report, titled Managed by Bots: Data-Driven Exploitation in the Gig Economy, found that gig workers were routinely denied access to personal data held on them by companies that use machine-learning tools to allocate work and manage employees. | Machine Learning |
| InfoWorld - Cloud numbers don’t add up | In a recent O’Reilly survey, 30% of respondents said they’re fully cloud native already, with another 17% saying they’ll get there within the next two years (and 20% more say they’ll be cloud native in roughly three years). Sounds amazing, right? Actually, it sounds impossible. Cloud spending still accounts for just 6% of total IT spending, according to analyst firm IDC. | Cloud |
| TMCNET - Ransomware Study: Two Thirds of Security Professionals Believe Ransomware and Terrorism Threats are Equal | These opinions echo the U.S. Department of Justice, which raised the threat level of ransomware following the Colonial Pipeline attack earlier this year. The study also found that less than one-third of respondents have implemented basic security controls that break the ransomware kill chain. | Privacy & Security |
| Network World - Supply chain woes forcing more workloads to the cloud | "If you're going to control the whole stack, you get a few more options than, say, Amazon's load balancing. They're going to do it their way, and you have to tailor everything to the capabilities of the cloud provider." | Cloud |
| DCD - The clean data paradigm | Data mining and surveillance designed to serve ads ultimately created the filter bubble and unintended consequences for society. It turns out, the current business model on the internet is incompatible with a healthy society and often with reality. | Data Privacy |
| VentureBeat - The state of cloud-native development: Kubernetes is on the rise | Digging down into some specific Kubernetes numbers from the State of Cloud Native Development Report reveals that developers working on edge computing applications are the most active users of both containers and Kubernetes, at 76% and 63%, respectively | Cloud |
| AJMC - Leveraging Data and AI to Connect the Life Sciences, Health Systems | Use of this more complete data set will be the step that leads to better drug development and outcomes, Herr predicted. But getting there will require the AI policy landscape to catch up. Herr reviewed several policy declarations from both Europe and North America, including recent events that could offer guidance in patient privacy and algorithm creation: | Data Privacy |
| CIO Dive - 5 trends businesses to consider when planning 2022 cybersecurity budgets | As a result, the average cybersecurity budget for 2021 remained virtually unchanged for small companies at $267,000, compared to $275,000 in the previous year. In large corporations, the allocation decreased from $14 million in 2020 to $11.4 million in 2021. | Security |
| Datamation - 5 Cloud Networking Trends for 2022 | About 80% of client/consumer and 50% of enterprise SSDs are now NVMe, and these numbers are growing. Hyperscalers like Facebook are also building ultra-efficient data centers using NVMe technology. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - How AI regulation is developing in the insurance industry | Agreement among regulators that they are largely unequipped to perform, with state regulatory staff, deep technical examinations or forensics of AI systems. To be successful in regulatory oversight, they need further education, partnerships with more expert organizations, and some degree of carrier attested accountability in the future. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SiliconANGLE - How did we do? Grading our 2021 predictions | They may not take the steps that we predicted above, such as a shift toward domain ownership and data product thinking and the reorganization of hyperspecialized technical teams — many of the principles put forth in the data mesh concept. | Tech Trends |
| Report: IT security teams struggle to mitigate vulnerabilities | The survey found that the majority of respondents tend to group vulnerabilities by infrastructure (64%), followed by business function (53%) and application (53%). This is concerning as risk prioritization based on infrastructure and application groupings without asset context is not meaningful. | Security |
| Cloud Security Alliance - Zero Trust in the Spotlight at SECtember 2021 | This SECtember session examined the major frameworks for Zero Trust security: Forrester ZTX, NIST SP800-207, and Google BeyondCorp. | Security |
| ZDNet - Technology leaders' influence in their businesses grows beyond expectations | Eighty-nine percent of IT leaders claimed that IT roles were undervalued pre-Covid -- but are now viewed as essential - with 90% claiming they have become trusted advisors to the business. | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - AI in 2022: What decision you need to make in the new year | While robots already exist in the warehouse and on the factory floor, more organizations are starting to apply AI to white-collar jobs like marketing and engineering, and even legal and finance. | Automation & Productivity |
| Predictions Series 2022: Growing Trends in Digital Marketing Everyone Should Know | Programmatic buying is the new way of designing digital marketing campaigns. Algorithm-based, data-driven, and technology-backed marketing strategies are predicted to give explosive results to digital marketers. | Marketing Tech |
| ZDNet - Best cybersecurity schools and programs | When selecting the best programs, research each school's accreditation, recruitment and enrollment efforts, and full-time and part-time graduation and retention rates, along with online degree options | Security |
| VentureBeat - 3 big problems with datasets in AI and machine learning | Studies show that biases and mistakes color many of the libraries used to train, benchmark, and test models, highlighting the danger in placing too much trust in data that hasn’t been thoroughly vetted — even when the data comes from vaunted institutions. | Artificial Intelligence |
| InsurTech Center - Examining the evolution of cyber risk in insurance | According to the report, in just the first half of 2021, global cybercrime increased 29%, ransomware attacks rose 93% and demands increased by a remarkable 518%. Actual payments, they found, increased by more than 80%. | Cyber Insurance |
| AiThority - Ad Fraud and Machine Learning: Maximizing ROI by Minimizing Invalid Traffic | With a platform that leverages machine learning, IVT can be blocked at both the attribution and click level. Machine learning technology is now able to detect early indications of emerging fraud tactics enabling them to be blocked earlier and minimize losses to ad fraud. | Machine Learning |
| Data Center Dynamics - Why colos need to get serious about security | As security becomes more of a concern for organizations of all shapes and sizes, colocation providers sit in the unenviable position of needing to not only manage physical security of a data center portfolio alongside the core IT of their own organization, but also secure a growing selection of software and services being offered to customers. | Security |
| CEOWorld Magazine - 10 Cybersecurity Tips for Recruiters / Recruiting Companies | To start with, recruiting companies deal with tons of different information every day, from their company’s internal data to the information about their clients’ and vacancies-related details and, of course, the personal information of job applicants | Security |
| DataCenter Knowledge - Looking Forward to 2022: What To Expect in Cybersecurity | So my top prediction -- and the prediction of dozens of experts I contacted for this story -- is that we're going to keep seeing all the same threats we've been seeing all along. Just more of them, delivered faster, and with more automation and efficiency. | Security |
| AiThority - Predictions Series 2022: 6 SaaS Sales Tools to Watch for 2022 | Within that flooded market of SaaS sales tools, there are few standouts that win the battle and are worth paying attention to. Below, are five of these market-tested and emerging sales tools that we think can help streamline and optimize the sales process. | Marketing Tech |
| TechRepublic - How organizations should prioritize security vulnerabilities | Asked how they group vulnerabilities internally to decide which ones to prioritize, 64% said they do it by infrastructure, 53% by business function, 53% by application, 42% by stakeholder and 40% by business department. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: IT infrastructure expected to remain stable for next few years | More than half of respondents (51%) indicated that they have already moved all their applicable infrastructure into the cloud, while the remaining (49%) said they plan to move their workloads into the cloud as much as possible. Not one of the over 1,400 respondents stated they would keep all of their infrastructure on premises forever. | IT Management |
| TMCNET - DataSecOps Innovator Satori Predicts Big Changes for Modern Data Operations in 2022 | Satori, the category creator behind DataSecOps, today shared its predictions for the near future of cloud-based transformation, detailing three major developments to watch for in the world of data governance and operational security over the course of 2022. | Data & Analytics |
| AiThority - AI Will Have a Record Year in 2022, but Not the Way You Think | Data, which one might think of as the raw material for machine learning systems, is arguably the most important and one where we will see increasingly sophisticated competition and investment. Software has always been limited by the “garbage in, garbage out” idea and AI is no exception — and its designers are learning how much data is needed to avoid that trap | Artificial Intelligence |
| Yahoo News - 2021 was the year cybersecurity became everyone's problem | The combination of cryptocurrency and ransomware has proven to be especially tough to fight as it is often in the business interests of a victim to pay up rather than take the risk of data loss or even a business disruption. | Security |
| The Hacker News - The Guide to Automating Security Training for Lean Security Teams | Every organization has 'High-Risk Employees' who jeopardize its stability. We've found that one out of every five people within an organization may fall under this high-risk category. They might be absolute rock star employees in every other sense, but for some reason, they're just compelled to click the links in weird emails that they shouldn't even have opened | Security |
| Shouts Tech Culture and Lifestyle Stuff - How To Take Advantage Of Your Cloud Security Using Posture Management | One of the biggest benefits of cloud security posture management is automating policy enforcement. It means that only authorized users can access your data and that any suspicious or unauthorized activity is quickly identified and dealt with. | Security |
| Datanami - LogDNA Research Shows 74 Percent of Companies Fail to Achieve True Observability | The study showed that two-thirds of organizations are currently spending $100,000 or more annually on observability tools, with 38% spending $300,000 or more annually. While many organizations have four or more tools in their arsenal, they’re often dissatisfied; in fact, more than half are unable to implement the tools they want because of vendor lock-in. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Report: Digital transformation guides midmarket strategies | While these focus areas aren’t necessarily surprising, what does stand out is the sheer volume of investment: At least a quarter of middle market leaders plan to invest upwards of half a million dollars in these areas over the next one to three years. | Digital Transformation |
| ZDNet - Ad blockers top Firefox list of most popular browser extensions in 2021 | Privacy appears to be a significant issue for Firefox users. Other top extensions in 2021 include Mozilla's Facebook Container (1,740,395 ADU) and tracking add-on Ghostery (1,167,938 ADU). | Data Privacy |
| ZDNet - Cybersecurity experts debate concern over potential Log4j worm | The possibility of a worm has generated significant conversation in the cybersecurity community. Cybersecurity expert Marcus Hutchins called fears of a worm "overblown" in multiple Twitter threads. | Security |
| Virtualization & Cloud Review - Report: Risk Management Lags in Changing Cloudscape | "This is evident with the cloud service usage numbers in addition to the 58 percent of survey respondent companies primarily using multiple cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers. With cloud adoption numbers increasing, more than half (52 percent) of organizations reported not re-evaluating the risk of their cloud services being used." | Cloud |
| TMCNET - Less Than 50 Percent of Organizations Regularly Assess Their Cloud Risk Status, According to New Cloud Security Alliance Survey | Commissioned by Google, the findings identify the current challenges and perceived effectiveness of risk management in the public cloud, the impact of effective risk management practices in the cloud, and best practices that not only reduce risk but address risk tolerance in the cloud. | Cloud Security |
| SiliconANGLE - How a true zero-trust architecture could have minimized the impact of Log4j – and still can | Rather than using a legacy WAF-based approach, organization that leverage a security approach that make business critical applications undiscoverable to the internet effectively eliminate the attack surface and ultimately access for bad actors | Security |
| The Next Web - This is what banking will look like in 10 years | Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a technology that shows great potential. However, over the past ten years, the financial services sector has faced challenges to move past applying it in isolated use cases and proof of concepts. | FinTech |
| Help Net Security - How organizations analyze data to source insights that inform business decisions | The findings show that IT talent may be wasted on moving, migrating, pipelining, and transforming data — a process that can, and should, be automated to enable faster, more insightful analytics. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Propaganda-as-a-service may be on the horizon if large language models are abused | For example, in a new study out of Cornell, researchers show that LLMs can be modified to produce “targeted propaganda” — spinning text in any way that a malicious creator wants. | Machine Learning |
| sdxcentral - Log4j Update: 44% of Corporate Networks Under Siege | Wiz, the cloud security unicorn that discovered the Microsoft Cosmos DB vulnerability earlier this year, says more than 89% of all IT environments have vulnerable Log4j libraries. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 83% of IT professionals can’t guarantee infrastructure is safe from ex-employees | One part of the survey results focused on security concerns around The Great Resignation. More than half (58%) of IT, DevOps, and security professionals are “concerned” or “very concerned” about former employees leaving with secrets or knowledge into how their organization accesses infrastructure. | Security |
| AiThority - AdvisorVault Makes Microsoft 365 17a-4 Compliant | Since FINRA has given firms the green light to use the cloud, the big question then becomes: can a cloud platform like Microsoft 365, using its built-in compliance tools meet 17a-4? In other words, can you configure it to prevent the deleting and modifying of emails on exchange, data on OneDrive/SharePoint, Teams chats, then retain it for 7 yrs., and finally will Microsoft act as the FINRA D3P, supply the two attestation letters and perform the required functions as a D3P? | Cloud |
| Datanami - Datanami Reveals Winners of the 2021 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards | These awards, now in their sixth year, are gaining recognition as being among the most prestigious recognition given by the big data and AI community to its own each year, and are the only awards that provide open voting to a worldwide audience of end users. | Data & Analytics |
| The Verge - Algorithms that detect cancer can be fooled by hacked images | Researchers demonstrated that a computer program could add or remove evidence of cancer from mammograms, and those changes fooled both an AI tool and human radiologists. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - 2022: A major revolution in robotics | By combining machine vision with learning capabilities, roboticists are opening a wide range of new possibilities like vision-based drones, robotic harvesting, robotic sorting in recycling, and warehouse pick and place. | Automation & Productivity |
| Threatpost - Where the Latest Log4Shell Attacks Are Coming From | Now under active exploit, the “Log4Shell” bug allows complete server takeover. Researchers have started to fill in the details on the latest Log4Shell attacks, and they reported finding at least 10 specific Linux botnets leading the charge. | Security |
| AiThority - Predictions Series 2022: Everything You Want to Know about AI Ethics | "I think it’s high time that Ethical/Responsible AI moves beyond ‘fluffy policy’ and becomes embedded inside the tangible tools and actual law and regulations." | AI Ethics |
| Blocks & Files - Predictions for 2022 | Both Infinidat and VAST Data will emerge as a major high-end storage array and filer suppliers. | Data Storage |
| Datanami - IT Leaders Expect to Move More Big Data Jobs to Kubernetes by Jan. 2022 | Applications that topped the list of those moving to Kubernetes include Spark, which was the most popular with 63 perce nt of the votes. Presto took 2nd with 45 percent, Kafka came in at 42 percent, and Trino scored 34 percent. Flink followed up with 27 percent. | Data & Analytics |
| AiThority - Predictions Series 2022: Early Days of Big Data Are Over and What it Means for Marketers | Moving into the new year, marketers need to come to the realization that they shouldn’t be overly reliant on third-party data. All the momentum around consumer privacy is only going in one direction. Companies that do not understand how to use first-party data as a marketing tool are going to get left behind.” | Data Privacy |
| Forbes - The 5 Biggest Internet Of Things (IoT) Trends In 2022 | Ericsson predicts that by 2022, there will be around 29 billion of these devices connected to the internet globally. So let’s take a look at what are likely to be some of the most important drivers and innovations in this field during 2022: | IoT |
| Forbes - Five Reasons To Rethink Data Analytics Strategy | Beware, here you are looking at technologies supporting business processes per se and not at solutions to manage the generated data. Every time a new tool is adopted, a new set of valuable data is born and must be used. | Data & Analytics |
| Intelligent CIO - A cybersecurity diagnosis for the healthcare sector with breach-likelihood | Accidental and/or malicious insider threats: The HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey 2020 states that 89% of initial compromise in hospitals is still through emails and more than half (57%) of the cyberattacks in healthcare begin via trusted insiders. | Security |
| Open Access Government - The state of the digital nation in the public sector | With this in mind, we’d like to present key findings from State of the Digital Nation, the first annual, global survey of digital transformation across the public sector that explores the challenges and successes of the back-office innovation, produced by Unit4 in partnership with Vanson Bourne | Digital Transformation |
| The Fast Mode - Crypto, MCX, Web3, 6G: 2022 Will Not Be Dull by Any Means | Nobody yet knows what 6G will encompass technically, but the possible use cases for next generation wireless technology are already compiled by the 6GWorld and other organizations, which will translate into requirements and technical specifications. | Tech Trends |
| SiliconANGLE - Three ways low-code app development is enabling employee usability of AI technology | Indeed, IDC expects the number of industry-specific digital apps and services to explode to 500 million by 2023. And by 2025, roughly 10 percent of these apps will be led by artificial intelligence. | Artifcial Intelligence |
| AiThority - Darktrace Reports Information Technology and Communications Sector Most Targeted by Cyber-Attackers in 2021 | Darktrace’s findings show that its artificial intelligence autonomously interrupted an average of 150,000 threats per week against the sector in 2021. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: IT automation to drive tech spending in 2022 | With ransomware on the rise and a lack of awareness around security threats among hybrid and remote employees, the report found that more than 75% of organizations plan to adopt employee training and spending on emerging anti-ransomware technology solutions to protect endpoint devices and remote users more effectively. | Security |
| FedScoop - DOD needs stronger way to gauge effectiveness of cyber program, GAO says | “GAO found that DOD has not developed outcome-oriented measures, such as reduced risk to sensitive information, to gauge the effectiveness of CMMC,” | Data Governance |
| Markets Insider - Battle of the metaverses and a billion-dollar hack - 13 expert predictions of what's next for crypto in 2022 | Events in the crypto space are moving a mile a minute - and expect next year to keep up the pace as big business stakes out its turf, blockchains refine their tech, and easier points of entry let newcomers in. | Blockchain |
| eWeek - What Is Data Analytics? A Guide to Data Insights | By 2023, overall analytics adoption will increase from 35% to 50%, driven by vertical and domain-specific data mining techniques, according to the research firm. | Data & Analytics |
| Computerworld - AWS outage hit collaboration vendors, highlights risk of cloud-based tools | The Tuesday outage at an Amazon Web Services data center affected services from several collaboration software vendors, highlighting how reliant companies have become on cloud providers for a variety of workplace tools. | Security |
| Datanami - U.S. Demand for Analytics Intensifies as Enterprises Democratize Access to Data | This is bringing two categories of platforms to the fore, namely self-service business intelligence (BI) and data preparation and integration. | Data & Analytics |
| The Verge - Apple’s app tracking transparency feature isn’t an instant privacy button | None of this is to say that there are no privacy benefits to hitting the “Ask app not to track” button — a previous Financial Times investigation found that Snap, Inc, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube lost $10 billion combined after the feature was implemented, so there was obviously a market for ads driven by that data. | Data Privacy |
| TechBullion - Why Blockchain is The Key to Data Privacy in The Future | So then, the question is how revolutionary technologies will challenge the privacy status quo? This is one of the reasons why the cryptocurrency is the private currency of the future. It isn’t just financed though, as multiple other industries are already benefiting greatly from the privacy that blockchain technology innately offers. | Blockchain/Privacy |
| sdxcentral - Op-Ed: These Technologies Will Shape 2022 and Beyond | While vendors and enterprises alike have paid lip service to DevSecOps for years, it finally looks poised for prime time. I believe it’s going to take off in 2022 as more companies automate security tools and integrate those into the development lifecycle. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Report: Data and enterprise automation will drive tech and media spending to $2.5T | Technology like autonomy (self-driving cars, home automation), voice recognition, AR/VR, gaming and more will enable end-user experiences while enterprises will become more productive in their marketing effectiveness, IT service management, cross-planning and forecasting, and more. | Automation & Productivity |
| WRAL TechWire - Your medical devices are vulnerable to hackers, researches report | The research, shared exclusively with CNN, points to the challenges that hospitals and other facilities have had in keeping sensitive software updated as the resource-absorbing coronavirus pandemic continues. It’s also an example of how federal agencies are working more closely with researchers to investigate cybersecurity flaws that could affect patient safety. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - 7 ways to make the wider enterprise comfortable with artificial intelligence | "Extended teams need to range from the technical side, involving IT and cloud operations for security and data governance, to the business side, involving change management, training for education, adoption, best practice." | Artificial Intelligence |
| SiliconANGLE - The rise of the supercloud | The cloud is expanding out to the edge: AWS is bringing its operating model, application programming interfaces, primitives and services to more and more locations. Companies such as Aviatrix, and many others, are building capabilities on top of the cloud that don’t exist from the cloud providers today. And their strategy is to move fast in their respective domains to stay ahead and add value. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Report: Nearly two-thirds of orgs lack basic API security | GraphQL’s adoption has doubled from 2020 to 2021 and continues to accelerate. However, security awareness around GraphQL is still relatively low. Several aspects of GraphQL API structure can create security risks that can be difficult to assess. | Security |
| Harvard Business Review - How Your Company Can Be More Strategic About Its Tech Spending | If your organization isn’t making large tech investments, you’re in the minority. Indeed, nearly half of the CEOs in PwC’s 24th annual CEO survey (2021) reported plans to increase their rate of digital investment by 10% or more — more than any other spending category. | IT Management |
| Intelligent CIO - DevSecOps automation will be key to Digital Transformation in 2022 | Development teams should be enabled to work as artists as much as possible, opening up their productivity to build new ways for organisations and their customers to see and experience the world. They shouldn’t be manual laborers who get bogged down in the task of stitching code, infrastructure and databases together to make sure everything works. | DevOps |
| IndustryWired - Top Data Science Projects for Solving Real-Life Business Problems for 2022 | Data science is the field that is emerging to be the best program attracting a lot of young minds. It is not only about theoretical knowledge, but it is more about the practical part too. | Data & Analytics |
| TechBullion - 4 Technologies Your Small Business Needs to Succeed | Certain technologies, such as productivity software and basic internet service, are usually perceived as essentials. While this view may be correct, there are plenty of techs that go unnoticed. Whether these technologies are service improvements, devices, apps, or new protocols, they are just as critical to small business wins. Here are four you should definitely know about. | Automation & Productivity |
| Open Access Government - Smart Life 2025: Envisioning a connected a world | So how might these innovations change everyday life experiences? This article explores the scenarios that could emerge in the domains of traffic management and driving, healthcare, cooking, and the management of our personal finances. | Smart Cities |
| Datanami - Informatica Unveils 2021 State of the CDO Study | “The changemakers of tomorrow in digital transformation will have to be move beyond just data integration to data intelligence but 37% of data leaders are spending most of their time grappling with data complexity as opposed to driving true transformation with data,” | Data & Analytics |
| Computerworld - US IT job recovery is in full swing, but employee retention can be tenuous | To entice employees and retain existing tech staff, CIOs are offering flexible work options, such as a combination of in-office and remote work. The median salary for IT professionals is expected to grow to between $96,000 and $97,000, up from just over $94,600 in January and $95,600 in June | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - Natural language processing is shaping intelligent automation | Natural language interfaces are the next step in the evolution of human-computer interaction, from simple tools to machines capable of event-driven and automated processes, potentially even leading to a kind of symbiosis between humans and machines. | NLP |
| TechRepublic - CIOs and other IT leaders share predictions and tech trends for 2022 | "Frustrated traditional firms will resort to boosting wages to attract talent, while future-fit firms will use cloud-first and platform-based architectures and adopt low-code/no-code solutions to reduce their need for the most advanced technical skills," according to Forrester. | IT Management |
| AiThority - Clickatell’s 2022 Prediction: Brands Will Prioritize Chat Commerce to Improve the Consumer Experience, Becoming a Multi-Billion Dollar Market | “Chat Commerce has become one of the fastest-growing global phenomena. No other channel of engagement has this kind of relevant and repeatable impact. The market opportunity for Chat Commerce is virtually unlimited, and brands have only begun to tap into its potential.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Newsweek - Top Digital Technology Trends for 2022 | Businesses will continue to reinvent digital employee collaboration and processes to enable maximum engagement and productivity wherever they are. With customers and employees remote, connecting with the tools, collaborative applications, and experiences digitally is critical to businesses and their employees. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Report: 75% of devs indicate that participating in API economy is ‘top priority’ | Leveraging APIs to drive innovation is a crucial factor for organizations, and underscored by the report’s findings that 90.6% of developers will use APIs more or the same in 2022 as they did in 2021. | DevOps |
| CIO - 3 steps to better data center risk management | Today, data centers continue to not just survive but thrive alongside hybrid and multicloud systems in new avatars such as on-prem as a service. Not just that, data centers are poised to meet the emerging demand for services related to emerging tech such as edge computing, IoT, and 5G. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Report: Despite optimism, 65% of orgs can’t achieve mature cybersecurity programs | According to a new study by the Ponemon Institute, the cultural divide between IT security and OT engineering teams leaves 65% of organizations unable to develop a fully mature cybersecurity program that protects both IT and OT environments. | Security |
| Datanami - Study Finds Only 42 Percent of Applications on Kubernetes Successfully Make it to Production | The study found that while 75% of organizations are using Kubernetes in production or pre-production environments, 100% of those organizations agree that Kubernetes deployments come with challenges. This is evidenced as only 42% of organizations claim that all applications running on Kubernetes successfully made it to Day 2 environments. | Cloud |
| SiliconANGLE - Number of vulnerabilities reported in 2021 hits record high | The number of high-severity vulnerabilities reported fell, to 3,646 in 2021 from 4,381 the year before. Medium-risk vulnerabilities reported came in at 11,767, while low-risk vulnerabilities numbered 2,965, both up from last year. | Security |
| ZDNet - Robotic process automation: This is how to stop your workers from resenting the bots | Analyst Forrester believes we're about to enter a new phase of RPA and automation. During the next decade, we'll see the emergence of 'autonomous enterprises' – organisations whose operating models are enabled by self-aware, self-correcting, self-directed digital technology, with AI and automation at their core. | Automation & Productivity |
| Forbes - AI Trends 2022: Spare Us The Hype, We Want Business Results | The latest industry analyst predictions about artificial intelligence (AI) are out, and they’re certain to oust a ton of assumptions we’ve made to date. Read on to find out just how smart, creative, and sincere AI will become during the next few years. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Geekwire - The era of SaaS is ending, Intelligent Apps are the future – Introducing the Intelligent Applications Top 40 | Intelligent App Enablers are the most clear and well-known group of companies. Several like Databricks, DataRobot and Fivetran have emerged over the last 5+ years as market leaders, and many of the earlier stage companies like OctoMl and dbt are already gaining significant market traction | SaaS |
| Network World - Gartner: Key infrastructure and operations trends to dominate 2022 | By using hyperautomation, I&O can pave the way for intelligence systems, such as AIOps and incident response automation, that play a key role in the day-to-day operations of IT. Gartner estimates that by 2025, 60% of I&O teams will use AI-augmented automation across their organizations, up from 1% in 2020. | Automation & Productivity |
| AiThority - New Global Survey Finds Consumers Are Becoming More Selective About Where, When And How They Share Information With Brands | 81% of UK consumers ignore or delete emails from brands they’ve subscribed to half of the time or more. Younger generations are more likely to rarely check their email as well as use anonymous or fake email addresses. | Privacy |
| The Enterprisers Project - 10 tech predictions for 2022 | "To that end, we are seeing a new breed of tools emerge that are based on AI and machine learning. These tools can identify, alert, and sometimes, heal issues before the remote worker even knows there is a problem." | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - AWS outage shines a light on hybrid cloud | “Businesses need to invest in redundant or backup capabilities, or pay for higher levels of guaranteed availability to preserve critical business services when running in the cloud.” | Cloud |
| The Brown Daily Herald - AI100 report hones in on latest social, ethical issues around artificial intelligence | “On one hand, it’s making our lives easier and doing some work to (improve) judgments and decisions we make, but, on the other hand, it’s creating dangers that we haven’t faced before,” he said. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - New tools to make the hybrid cloud simpler and the cloud datacenter sustainable | In fact, researchers anticipate that by 2025, datacenters will account for the largest share of global electricity consumption in information and communications technology at 33%, almost as much as smartphones, networks, and TV combined (at 34% of electricity consumption). | Sustainability |
| IndustryWired - Watch Out for the Top Data Analytics Companies that Would Lead in 2022 | Data analytics companies are experts in detecting and eliminating unusual and risky data and providing the best data-based solutions. This article lists the top top 10 data analytics companies that would lead in 2022. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Data labeling will fuel the AI revolution | The best way to scale data labeling is with a combination of machine learning and human expertise. Companies like Toloka, Appen, and others use AI to match the right people with the right tasks, so the experts do the work that only they can do | Artificial Intelligence |
| Network World - APIs pose the latest threat of vendor-lock-in networking | What’s creating a challenge in lock-in from APIs today is the fact that networking is shifting more to software, which means it’s shifting to a model where APIs are just as important as those standard interfaces, and enterprises aren’t tracking that important shift. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - Study uncovers just how broken search is — and how to fix it | 92% of these IT professionals say their users expect their company’s search to be as good as or better than Google — but their technology just isn’t hitting the mark. As foundational as it is to the functioning of the organization, only 13% of organizations are excelling in search, while 99% struggle to deliver relevant search results. | Automation & Productivity |
| TMCNET - E-Learning Market to Reach $840.11 Bn, Globally, by 2030 at 17.5% CAGR: Allied Market Research | Remote learning trends enforced by the global pandemic and surge in adoption of smart phones & cellular technology drive the growth of the global e-learning market. On the other hand, lower interaction with fellow learners and peers restrains the growth to some extent. However, cost-effectiveness of e-learning models is expected to create lucrative opportunities for the key players in the industry. | E-Learning |
| Datanami - ChaosSearch Survey Finds IT Professionals Spend Nearly as Much Time Prepping Data as They Do Analyzing It | While this increase in data should present new opportunities for organizations, current infrastructures make retaining and analyzing vast amounts of data at scale challenging. That, coupled with the growing data scientist shortage, is leaving enterprises unable to derive truly valuable insights that power business decisions. | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - Everyone is burned out. That's becoming a security nightmare | In many organisations, it's cybersecurity staff who are there to counter activity that could make the network vulnerable to cyberattacks – but according to the paper, cybersecurity professionals are more burned out than other workers. The research suggests that 84% of security professionals are feeling burned out, compared with 80% of other workers. | Security |
| AiThority - Predictions Series 2022: Building Cyber Resilience by Shifting Left | The most important part of any structure is the foundation, and when security is codified, it becomes inherent to the system, proactively built-in to ensure best practices, remove opportunities for human error and protect data. | Security |
| Smartphone app spending is rocketing. Here's what is driving it | Gamers spend the most of any app category, contributing around 60% of iOS revenue and nearly 80% of revenue in Google Play. The other major source of spending are users of entertainment and social apps. Entertainment apps are expected to reach $12 billion in 2022, according to App Annie. | Apps |
| Datanami - New Study Finds Data Governance Programs Are Critical to Trusting Data | Alongside improved data quality, respondents reported an overall “higher quality of data analytics and insights” (56%), as well as other benefits relating to “facilitated collaboration” (52%) and “faster access to relevant data” (50%). | Data Governance |
| Zero trust network access should be on every CISO’s SASE roadmap | In fact, 55% of CISOs interviewed by Cisco say they intend to prioritize 25% to 75% of their future IT security budget on SASE. Additionally, 42% of CISOs said that ZTNA is their top spending priority within SASE initiatives. | Security |
| Splunk 2022 Predictions Spotlight a Data-Driven Future | The inextricable link between observability and AIOps will become commonplace by the end of 2022 as organizations increasingly recognize the importance of taking action on observability, and their data, with machine learning when critical issues occur. | Tech Trends |
| sdxcentral - Cisco Study: Automation Helps Solve Security Skills Shortage | One of the key findings in this year’s study was that security programs with both a strong team and major threat detection and response automation capabilities reported better SecOps success (more than 95%). Even for those less experienced security teams, over three-quarters of them could get robust security results through high levels of automation. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: Enterprises lose millions of dollars to ad fraud each year | Marketers have identified that the impact of bots on their analytics is equally costly to that of ad fraud. In fact, it’s higher, with 68% of enterprises stating they lose 4.07% of their online revenue as a direct result of skewed marketing analytics. | Data & Analytics |
| The Next Web - Data centers could cause serious environmental damage — if we don’t regulate them now | While the transition to the cloud has promised to solve many of our data overload problems, data centers are now producing the same amount of emissions as the global airline industry. | Sustainability |
| AiThority - The Metaverse and AI Edge Cases Will Drive Synthetic Data Boom: Top Predictions for 2022 by Synthetic Data Innovator Datagen | “This year, AI underwent a major paradigm shift, in which traditional, model-centric approaches to AI development were reconsidered in favor of data-centrism, which means data scientists are now placing more significance on the quality of their training data as a determinant of performance, rather than the quality of their model. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - CrowdStrike survey says Microsoft customers ‘losing trust’; Microsoft calls report ‘self-serving’ | “Technology giants such as Microsoft are not immune to this form of cyberattack, and rather they are the gateway onto the network for millions of organizations around the globe. If they do not hold themselves accountable, then many others could suffer.” | Security |
| Network World - How wireless WAN can make SD-WAN more agile and resilient | So IT teams using WWAN are typically faced with two unpleasant options: a) either pay a flat rate but, when a threshold number of bytes is hit, face a sharp decrease in speed; or b) pay a per-gigabyte overage fee for usage past the threshold. Sometimes carriers want to push both options—decreased speed and pay-by-the-drink overage costs. | Network Management |
| AiThority - USD 64.08 Billion Growth In Enterprise Data Management Market | 40% Growth To Originate From North America | Technavio | In some cases, organizations delay their purchase decisions. In both ways, high prices limit market growth. In addition, other factors such as integration challenges related to unscalable applications and data privacy concerns are also expected to limit the market growth. | Data Management |
| Datamation - The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Market 2021 | The software-defined approach is not only growing at the local area network (LAN) level. Many enterprises and global entities are beginning to invest in software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WAN) to keep up with the demand for improved bandwidth and performance in globally distributed working environments. | Network Management |
| Reuters - Google, Meta dominate as digital propels global advertising growth -forecasts | The growth has been a boon for Alphabet, Meta and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), major sellers of digital ads and which now account for more than half of all advertising spending outside of China, an increase from closer to 40% in 2019, GroupM said. | Ad Tech |
| VentureBeat - Report: 91% of professionals say automation tools improve their work-life balance | In fact, 79% of respondents said they have increased their productivity thanks to automation tools, and 47% say they have fewer menial tasks to complete in their day-to-day work. | Automation & Productivity |
| AiThority - New Variants of Tor2Mine Cryptominer Feature Enhanced Evasion and Spreading Powers, Sophos Reports | “Two flavors of Tor2Mine miner dig deep into networks with PowerShell, VBScript,” that show how the miner evades detection, spreads automatically through a target network and is increasingly harder to remove from an infected system. | Security |
| Blocks & Files - First mile data, petabyte-scale observability pipelines explained | Our goal today with Calyptia is to give customers a single, vendor-neutral solution to send data from multiple locations to multiple destinations, to do it in an open source accessible way with a plug-in ecosystem, and do it with very high performance, very full fidelity transformations parsing filtering routing, etc. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Report: 95% of tech leaders say that AI will drive future innovation | What industries are expected to be most impacted by technology in the year ahead? Technology leaders surveyed cited manufacturing (25%), financial services (19%), health care (16%), and energy (13%) as industries poised for major disruption. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Geekwire - Your Data Readiness is Linked to a Winning Workplace Strategy | According to Forrester, firms high in workplace data readiness were roughly twice as likely to report significant employee and business benefits than low workplace data readiness firms. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - How AI and ML can thwart a cybersecurity threat no one talks about | According to Check Point Software Technologies’ ThreatCloud database, U.S. utilities have been attacked 300 times every week with a 50% increase in just two months. | Security |
| sdxcentral - Juniper Eyes Cloud AI, SASE Security Partnerships, Private Networks | “The question is how long does it take for an enterprise customer to trust a virtual AI assistant to join their team,” he asked. To this end, Juniper invests in conversational interface technologies to “get a virtual AI assistant to interact with the IT team on a par with the human.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Report: Ransomware victims increase security budgets due to surge in attacks | The majority (55%) undertook proactive measures to prevent ransomware attacks before they could cause any significant damage, and many of those respondents (38%) prevented attacks even before they could cause any serious downtime. | Security |
| sdxcntral - Amazon CTO Bolsters Industrial IoT, Edge | Edge computing, which comes in various forms, also presents interesting use cases for industrial IoT because it allows enterprises to move workloads to cloud-augmented edge models and inference engines to process and apply artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to operations, | IoT |
| VentureBeat - The top 12 security announcements at AWS re:Invent 2021 | Key themes included bringing more automation to many security processes, new capabilities to enable secure access to data, enhanced network and IoT security, and improved security for containers. | Security |
| eWeek - 4 Benefits of Digital Transformation | However, at its most advanced, digital transformation is not precisely about people or technology, but about the relationship between people and technology. When these two powerful entities are merged with a digital transformation strategy, a business reaps major productivity benefits that neither element can deliver by itself. | Digital Transformation |
| VentureBeat - AI Weekly: Recognition of bias in AI continues to grow | “Collecting sensitive data consensually requires clear, specific, and limited use as well as strong security and protection following collection. Current consent practices are not meeting this standard,” | Artificial Intelligence |
| InfoWorld - Why the cloud computing hangover? | A recent survey by Virtana of 350 IT and cloud decision-makers found that 82% have incurred unnecessary cloud costs, 56% lack tools to manage their spending using automation, and 86% can’t easily get a holistic view of all their operational cloud costs | Cloud Computing |
| VentureBeat - Top 12 AI and machine learning announcements at AWS re:Invent 2021 | Touching on DevOps, big data, and analytics, among the highlights were a call summarization feature for Amazon Lex and a capability in CodeGuru that helps detect secrets in source code. | Artificial Intelligence |
| IBM - The internet’s next step: The era of digital credentials | As the benefits are realized by the entities involved with the initial waves of adoption, we believe companies and governments with fringe use cases will take a chance on digital credentials. We see the primary use cases being related to occupational and professional licensure, recreational permits, learning credentials and vaccine verifications. | Blockchain |
| sdxcentral - Will DevSecOps Finally Take Off? | “Being able to show we’re saving 10-times as much money fixing stuff in the development phase than on the attack surface — that’s a great investment. That’s how we argue the ROI: We’re lowering the amount of risk.” | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 63% of C-suite execs do not have an incident response plan | With 75% of large U.S. businesses surveyed stating they have experienced a data breach, incident response plans can no longer be considered optional. Institutions are leaving themselves open to vulnerabilities, and the risks are always rising. | Security |
| yahoo!finance - Data Storage Market to Escalate Swiftly; Adoption of Big Data Analytics and AI to Amplify Revenue, states Fortune Business Insights™ | The rising implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in High-Performance Computing (HPC) data centers is expected to spur demand for high capacity cloud storage infrastructure, which, in turn, will boost the market. | Data Storage |
| BusinessBecause - 5 Hottest EdTech Trends For 2022 | Dynamic AI could interpret the interests of each student and predict their behavior, consequently offer them the exact content that they need. | EdTech |
| ZDNet - Shopping online? FBI says beware of these holiday scams and phishing threats | "Do not store important documents or information in your email account (e.g., digital currency private keys, documents with your social security number, or photocopies of a driver's license)." | Privacy & Security |
| Markets Insider - Darktrace Reports 30% More Ransomware Attacks Targeting Organizations During The Holiday Period | During the nascent 2021 holiday season, Darktrace's AI detected and autonomously stopped an in-progress, early-stage ransomware attack on a U.S. city before any data exfiltration or encryption could occur | Security |
| diginomica - UK government publishes standard and guidance for AI algorithmic transparency | An algorithmic transparency template has also been published, which should provide bodies with additional guidance on how they should be approaching these AI projects to support decisions. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - DeepMind claims AI has aided new discoveries and insights in mathematics | An AI system trained by DeepMind revealed that a particular algebraic quantity — the “signature” — was directly related to the geometry of a knot, which wasn’t previously known or suggested by an existing theory. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Markets Insider - New Survey Finds That A Third Of U.S. Companies Fail To Proactively Put In Place Data-management Systems | Results showed that 33 percent of U.S. companies are not proactively putting in place systems to monitor, warehouse and protect their internal data, despite growing international regulations mandating it and heightened legal risks associated with data theft. | Data Management |
| SiliconANGLE - Machine learning will drive the cloud data journey, says AWS chief Adam Selipsky | Basically if you provide companies with the ability to govern who can and cannot do various things with which data, it actually sets them free to provide access to that data. It’s a little bit counterintuitive, but it’s the ability to govern which gives them comfort to democratize. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - How data mesh is turning the tide on getting real business value from data | Data mesh is about moving the shaping of the data to the people who are closest to the business use case | Data & Analytics |
| Network World - SmartNICs set to infiltrate enterprise networks | "Customers also are looking to bring down the cost of infrastructure by running more and more virtual machines while supporting denser traffic from ever-dense servers--all use-cases smartNICs can handle.” | Network Management |
| Blocks & Files - Komprise explains the mess: files, objects, silo sprawl and abstraction layers | The need for different price/performance options is only increasing as data continues to grow, so both formats will be needed. However, objects are growing much faster than file formats because of their usefulness for cost-effective, long-term storage. | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - How to use the right data for growth marketing in a privacy-centric world | According to Statista, the opt-in rate for this specific prompt is 21% as of September 6, 2021, which is unsurprising. This means that 79% of users are unwilling to provide their data to ad platforms in this instance, who then can’t pass the data back to growth marketers. | Data Privacy |
| ZDNet - Robots in 2022: Six robotics predictions from industry-leading humans | We're also at a fulcrum moment. Automation technologies are maturing, developers are merging and standardizing engineering approaches, and technologies like AI and machine vision are intersecting to unlock a new wave of capability and efficiency. | Automation & Productivity |
| Datamation - Top Internet of Things (IoT) Trends for 2022: The Future of IoT | “People have adopted more and more IoT devices and connected them to the internet. However, they’ve also downloaded apps onto their phones to control these devices, without even reading the terms and conditions." | IoT |
| DigitalInsurance - Insurers seeking cybersecurity talent heading into 2022 | Most insurers -- 49% -- devote five to 10% of their overall IT budgets to cybersecurity, compared to the cross-industry baseline of 44%. Insurers identify their biggest challenge as new needs due to cloud infrastructure and Internet of Things connections with a 44% plurality; | Security |
| ZDNet - Leaders who embrace trust set the bar for new sustainability and AI goals in 2022 | Many companies will welcome a new chief trust officer. We expect that industries that require significant levels of trust, such as infrastructure technology and financial services, will appoint a new chief trust officer, reporting to the CEO and aligned with other C-suite roles such as the CISO. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SiliconANGLE - As re:Invent kicks off, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky charts key role of partners in a new cloud world | There’s AWS, there are our partners and all of our customers and we together are the ones who are all trying to find new paths and new solutions. I think a lot of companies are like, hey, I’m the vendor and I’m the technology provider and I’m just providing solutions. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - 2022 Robotics predictions from industry leading execs | Interoperability is the next big challenge in robotics. If a robot from Vendor A doesn't communicate with a robot from Vendor B, then the end-user is going to have a problem on their hands. | Automation & Productivity |
| AiThority - Predictions Series: 2022 Will See Firms Adopt a Global, Multi-lingual Approach to Knowledge Management Capability | In 2022, firms that have reached a reasonable level of maturity in their Knowledge Management functions, will actively work with technology solutions providers to attempt to create enterprise-wide knowledge portals to facilitate holistic searches across all repositories and resources. | Knowledge Management |
| ZDNet - Spy chief's warning: Our foes are now 'pouring money' into quantum computing and AI | "There is no longer such a thing as an analogue intelligence operation in this digital world," said Moore. "All of this requires insights from data, the tools to manipulate data and, most importantly, the talent to turn complex data into human insight. The combination of technological prowess and insights from human intelligence gives the UK a powerful edge." | Security |
| Geekwire - Teaching artificial intelligence right from wrong: New tool from AI2 aims to model ethical judgments | “The thing about AI learning from just raw text, like GPT-3 and other neural networks do, is it ends up reflecting a lot of human problems and biases.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cyber Defense Magazine - Multicloud Rolls In: Federal IT Professionals Share Insights and Challenges | Thirty-seven percent of respondents report their agency uses multiple clouds (infrastructure and solutions), and 60 percent have started on a cloud strategy journey. | Cloud |
| Public - NPM, Encryption, And The Challenges Ahead: Part 1 | Probably one of the more controversial evolutions in security that we are seeing in the pervasive monitoring space is DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Google has service providers and enterprises in an uproar over their intention to have the Chrome web browser circumvent local DNS servers | Network Management |
| diginomica - Hyperscalers don't appreciate the needs of SMBs - what should AWS be doing at re:Invent? | Indeed, at $200 million, the smallest of these pulls in more revenue than most mid-market companies do in a year. Of course, plenty of smaller operations are AWS customers, but these are often tech-savvy, cloud-native startups that rent everything — infrastructure, office furniture, accounting services — and know that they can scale workloads as needed on AWS should their business strike a chord and thrive. | Cloud |
| AiThority - Staying Cyber Safe 24/7 – 365 | The first and most common inside threat is from employees using unlicensed software. This may be inadvertent use where legitimate license agreements have been exceeded by an organization and it may appear to be quite trivial but it’s far from it warns Cylynt | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Why your cloud computing costs are so high – and what you can do about them | A recent survey of 350 IT and cloud decision-makers by cloud observability platform maker Virtana Inc. found that 82% said they had incurred unnecessary cloud costs, 56% lack tools to manage their spending programmatically and 86% can’t easily get a global view of all their costs when they need it. | Cloud |
| CSO - NIST workshop provides clues to upcoming software supply chain security guidelines | Moreover, artifacts “need to be understood by non-experts. We need non-security experts to look at something and be able to know whether or not there is adequate security coverage in the thing that they are buying.” | Security |
| AiThority - How AI-Fueled Metadata Is Changing Content Marketing | With marketers spending 38 percent of their budget on developing content and content marketing, it is more imperative than ever to deliver returns on investment. Metadata is helping to bridge that gap. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxCentral - Is Neuromorphic Computing the Key to Faster, Greener AI? | Another advantage, at least for Intel’s Loihi, is the neurons are stateful, Orchard said. In other words they each have their own memory. “This is different from what you see in deep learning,” | Artificial Intelligence |
| TMCNET News - Enterprises in the U.S. Embracing Multicloud Environments | Demand for cloud-based services is surging in the Americas region, the 3Q21 ISG Index™ found. Annual contract value (ACV) for as-a-service solutions soared 51 percent in the third quarter, to a record $6.9 billion, the fastest growth rate for this segment since ISG began tracking it in 2014. | Cloud |
| Healthcaredive - Accelerating outcomes amid healthcare's digital transformation | 66% of leaders say that enterprise resource planning (ERP) investments will underpin efforts to modernize supply chain, and more than half will look to electronic health record (EHR) optimization to increase revenue cycle and clinical functionality. | Automation & Productivity |
| AiThority - Positive Technologies Helps Eradicate Vulnerabilities In Zoom | Egor Dimitrenko believes that the main reason why such vulnerabilities arise is a lack of sufficient verification of user data. “You can often encounter vulnerabilities of this class in apps to which server administration tasks have been delegated. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Break up Amazon? Our survey suggests it may not be necessary | At a $64 billion run rate and a 39% growth rate last quarter, AWS is the profit engine of Amazon.com. AWS accounted for more than 100% of Amazon’s overall operating profit in the quarter. | Cloud |
| sdxcentral - Is Open RAN Too Little, Too Late for 5G? | Projections aside, questions also remain as to the technical readiness of open RAN, particularly in brownfield networks. Bear in mind that “decisions on mobile network infrastructure purchases, which can range in the billions of dollars, typically get made years before we ever see a commercially available service,” | 5G |
| VentureBeat - Report: Zero-trust architecture is expected to increase cybersecurity efficacy by 144% | Other key highlights from respondents include barriers encountered when deploying a zero-trust architecture, their confidence level in existing cybersecurity protections, the top ten data sources in need of protection, and the total IT budget allocated for zero-trust initiatives by year. | Security |
| ZDNet - Building artificial intelligence: staffing is the most challenging part | "The ML talent with experience are in high demand. One option is to provide training and build a culture that fosters internal transfers; sometimes, growing the team internally can be the key to building an effective ML team." | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Emerging tech in security and risk management to better protect the modern enterprise | When it comes to emerging technologies in security and risk management, Contu focused on eight areas: confidential computing; decentralized identity; passwordless authentication; secure access service edge (SASE); cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM); cyber physical systems security; digital risk protection services; and external attack surface management. | Security |
| Threatpost - Common Cloud Misconfigurations Exploited in Minutes, Report | Given that the speed with which organizations typically manage vulnerabilities is typically measured in days or months, “that fact that attackers could find and compromise our honeypots in minutes was shocking,” | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Automation puts data centers on the path to hyperscaler-style experience | Hyperscalers manage massive data centers with incredible sophistication and speed: Problems are identified and resolved in a matter of hours, not days. That type of efficiency is within reach if the right investments are made in automation that applies advanced, artificial intelligence-driven analytics to root cause analysis and remediation. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Report: Applications and critical data vulnerable to attack | Insecure data storage and communication vulnerabilities plague mobile applications. Eighty percent of the discovered vulnerabilities in the mobile tests were related to insecure data storage. | Security |
| ZDNet - Google: Half of compromised cloud instances have weak or no passwords | Cryptocurrency mining is by far the main malicious activity conducted by attackers after taking advantage of misconfigured instances hosted on GCP, making up 86% of all actions carried out after compromise. | Cloud Security |
| TechRepublic - Windows Server IoT 2022 is for a lot more than IoT | It's here that you should run code that aggregates data from your industrial IoT sensors, or store data for later processing. It's not only for device support–it's where your Windows-based point of sale systems or restaurant management tools store and manage data. | IoT |
| VentureBeat - The shape of edge AI to come | These start-ups are trying to move neural network-based machine learning from the cloud data center to embedded systems in the field – to what’s now called “the edge.” Making chips work in this new world will require new ways of setting up neurals, designing memory paths, and compiling to hardware. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Benzinga - Global Conversational AI Market (2021 to 2030) - Integration of Advanced AI Capabilities to Add Value to Existing Conversational AI Offerings | North America is projected to hold a higher CAGR during the forecast period. In North America, conversational AI solutions and services are highly effective in most organizations and verticals due to the increasing need to handle customer queries and enhance user experience. | Artificial Intelligence |
| TechUK - Why are cloud skills so in demand? | As companies place more of their IT architecture in the cloud and consider new options for their workforce, networking performance becomes more critical. Many consider network and system engineers the foundation of their teams with cloud skills adding critical value. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - AI will soon oversee its own data management | In this environment, any organization that isn’t leveraging data to its full potential is literally throwing money out the window. So going forward, the question is not whether to integrate AI into data management solutions, but how. | Data Management |
| Business to Community - The Top Business Technology Trends for 2021-2022 | Investing in the 5G network and expanding the use of IoT in business will also help to reduce a company’s carbon footprint. The reputation of a business is now, more than ever, heavily predicated on the practices and technology put in place to help reduce the harm that the operation inflicts on the environment and the climate. | Tech Trends |
| AiThority - 5G: IDTechEx Summarize 2021 And What To Expect Going Forward | Looking at telecom operators’ deployment strategies, we can see that low-frequency bands (for example, 700 MHz) are used for national coverage, whereas sub-6 GHz bands are utilized for city coverage, and mmWave is used for megacity hotspots. | 5G |
| VentureBeat - Report: Cybersecurity recruitment, training misses the mark | The main training technique for 26% of respondents was courses, while simulation-based training — such as cyber labs, cyber ranges, or red vs. blue training — is used by just 22%, according to the survey. | Security |
| Cyber Security Intelligence - The Cyber Security Industry Will Soon Be Worth Over $300 Billion | The need for strong authentication methods, increase in adoption of mobile device applications and platforms, and transformation in traditional antivirus software industry are expected to open lucrative opportunities for cyber security technology firms. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Why siloed SaaS tools do not play well with others | But while these large tech companies pay lip service to the idea of the exceptional customer experience, they have so far refused to address one of the biggest pain points for enterprise tech customers: a vast number of siloed SaaS tools that don’t play well with one another. | SaaS |
| Reuters - Analysis: Privacy-focused startups see boon in big tech's troubles | While some apps are free, others ask users to pay a subscription fee, which has raised concerns that privacy could become a luxury reserved for people who can afford to pay for it. | Privacy |
| AiThority - Predictions Series 2022: VR/AR, Live Shopping, and Payment Hurdles Influencing E-commerce Trends | As businesses like Facebook are making strategic shifts to the Metaverse, we will see the adoption of AR/VR in e-commerce accelerate. Expect massive growth in this area, including things such as AR glasses for Instagram shopping and businesses supporting users to create a greater personal identity in VR. | AR/VR |
| VentureBeat - Why an emerging cloud security trend offers ‘good news’ to businesses | “These walls are coming down,” MacDonald said. “We need to think of cloud-native application protection as a lifecycle problem from development into operations. And there are vendors now that can do most of everything [that’s part of CNAPP].” | Cloud Security |
| TechCrunch - Inside the rapid rise of usage-based pricing | Meanwhile a majority of the UBP holdouts (61%) say they expect to either launch or test usage-based pricing in the near future. If these trends continue, UBP will become the norm, not the exception, as early as 2022. | IT Management |
| Security Boulevard - Underinvestment in Multi-Cloud Security a Pressing Concern | “Whether their focus is on security monitoring for cloud infrastructure providers such as Google Cloud, AWS and Microsoft Azure, or the increasingly more complex security needs for the dozens of SaaS platforms their businesses rely on, CIOs and CISOs are expected to manage security controls and monitoring for an increasing number of clouds that house more and more sensitive data and critical business processes,” he said. | Cloud Security |
| Reason - What Is Web3 and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About It? | Right now, a startup can get a lot of VC interest if they call themselves a "web3 company" or an "NFT platform" or a "metaverse company," even if they are only tangentially related to the space or if they don't have a product at all. | Emerging Tech |
| Blocks & Files - Gartner’s 2021 Hyperconverged Magic Quadrant: Leaders unchanged, bye-bye DataCore, hello Visionary StorMagic | This year’s HCI MQ has no change in the Challengers and Leaders quadrants, the former being empty and the latter the domain of just two players: Nutanix and VMware, and their respective positions are effectively unchanged. | Data Management |
| AiThority - AI or Human-powered Transcription: Which One Would You Pick in 2022? | To sum it up, for natural, native-sounding content, human-powered transcribing solutions prevail as a go-to choice—especially as content consumers prefer high-quality transcriptions where no detail is missed, or accuracy is mandatory. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Digital Doughnut - Global Martech Industry Worth $344.8bn in 2021 | “We continue to see rapid growth within the marketing technology industry. I haven’t published a 2021 landscape yet, but we’ve been researching it. I’m quite confident in saying it will contain more than 10,000 vendors if we published it today.” | Marketing Tech |
| TechUK - Building Identity-Centric Cloud Resilience | Cyber attackers go after data – particularly personal information - and data accessible via the internet is the most vulnerable asset to misconfiguration or exploitation. And, for critical infrastructure, attackers will target services resilience as well. | Cloud Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: AI has assisted half of all business owners during the labor shortage | According to the study, the top tasks that business owners are optimizing via AI include chatbots, content creation for emails and advertisements, and managing inventory. | Automation & Productivity |
| SiliconANGLE - Investors cash in as users fight a perpetual cyberwar | The latest ETR survey once again asked information technology buyers to rank their top priorities for the next 12 months. In the last three polling periods, dating back to March 2020, cybersecurity has outranked every top spending category including cloud, data analytics, productivity software, networking, AI and automation/robotic process automation. | Security |
| sdxcentral - Half-Baked Business Models Hamper 5G’s Potential | Adoption remains lower than expected, and “the other thing that has really been disappointing is the lack of truly compelling use cases and applications that harness the power of 5G," | 5G |
| AiThority - Virtual Workplaces Will Dramatically Redefine The Office & Work Culture Of The Future | It goes further to outline the importance of how this will impact employee well-being, mental health and work-life balance – all of which play crucial roles in shaping the virtual workplace we work in, as well as how we hire and retain the best employee talent. | Automation & Productivity |
| sdxcentral - Why CISOs Need IaC Security (Hint: Developers Aren’t Slowing Down) | To help enterprises prevent misconfigurations and fix IaC flaws, several security companies have been adding IaC security tools to their portfolio. While some cloud security vendors such as Fugue and Qualys developed this technology internally, others have been scooping up IaC companies at breakneck speed. | Security |
| Forbes - Future Of Work: The 5 Biggest Workplace Trends In 2022 | Hybrid structures will range from companies maintaining permanent centralized offices with hot-desking to accommodate the fact that staff will more frequently work remotely, to doing away with offices entirely and relying on co-working spaces and serviced meeting rooms to support the needs of a primarily remote workforce.. | Tech Trends |
| Blocks & Files - Analyse this: storage startup funding in 2021 | $5.74 billion was invested in 36 storage startups this year, with the vast majority of it – $4.55 billion – going into data lake/warehouse and analytics companies. | Data Storage |
| EdSurge - The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning | Our analysis highlights a world in which learning is increasingly more digital, delivered when it is needed, and done in shorter and less structured ways than in the past | E-Learning |
| VentureBeat - Asynchronous video is set to transform the workplace, courtesy of effortless video tools | “Once one team demonstrates the benefits of asynchronous video, we often see other teams jumping on board,” Kawalsky says. “Interestingly, it’s not just those from marketing and creative teams either. We’ve seen everyone from real-estate agents to financial teams using video to create engaging content.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Robotics Tomorrow - 3 Applications of Green Robots for Sustainability in 2022 | Scientists have begun implementing robotic tools to aid in innovative sustainability strategies. With 2021’s unprecedented surge in public interest in sustainability, 2022 will see more use and development of green robots than ever before. | Sustainability |
| AiThority - From 2021 to 2022: The Cybersecurity Outlook, by KnowBe4 | This trend towards Africa as the lucrative shores upon which these modern-day pirates beach their ships is one that will likely continue into 2022. Most countries in the region do not have adequate cybercrime regulations in place and face significant skills shortages. | Security |
| The Fast Mode - Digitalization Trends to Watch for in 2022 | NLP chatbots are increasingly resulting in fewer questions from customers and will enable operators to eventually phase out inbound call centers, programming chatbots only to escalate issues they cannot resolve to a human agent. | Tech Trends |
| Blocks & Files - Fog busters! Data and storage category clarification | Secondary data is different. It is unstructured, file and object-based, not block, and it is much less performance-centric, both in a latency and throughput sense. The need is more for capacity than performance | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Report: Only 21% of remote workers say they are aware of cyberthreats | Additionally, two out of five (39%) are not wary of clicking on links in text messages, emails, or social media. Fewer than half (44%) are aware of so-called SMiShing, which is where a scammer texts asking for personal or financial information, and only a quarter (24%) know which organization or department in their company to report scams to. | Privacy & Security |
| AiThority - New Poll By ExpressVPN: Generation Z Cares About Digital Privacy, But Their Desire For Online Fame And Popularity Is Greater | Generation Z isn’t entirely trusting of the social media platforms they covet, expressing concern that social media platforms may be using their images for facial recognition (67%) and expressing wariness about oversharing personal information on their social media accounts (66%). As a result, they typically use at least one privacy and security setting on their social media accounts, such as two-factor authentication (64%) and disabling contact syncing (50%) | Privacy |
| Techstartups - DeFi fails to live up to its promise as fraud and theft at DeFi platforms totaled $10.5 billion so far in 2021, research shows | “Decentralised apps are designed to be trustless in that they eliminate any third-party control of users’ funds,” said Elliptic’s Tom Robinson. “But you must still trust that the creators of the protocol have not made a coding or design mistake that could lead to a loss of funds.” | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 54% of today’s ‘ethical hackers’ are Gen Z | The practice of ethical hacking helps root out security vulnerabilities, and in so doing it has become a mainstream vocation that allows diverse individuals to generate a sustainable livelihood from anywhere in the world. | Security |
| Datanami - IDC FutureScape: Top 10 Predictions for the Future of Work | The Future of Work predictions from International Data Corporation (IDC) signal an enduring adoption of hybrid work models by a majority of G2000 organizations, supported by broad adoption of automation and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies. | Tech Trends |
| AiThority - Powering Intelligent Conversations: The Future of AI-Powered Voice Technology | We’re only scratching the surface of the limitless benefits that will stem from AI-powered voice technology. The question is, how will voice technology evolve in the coming years and how will it revolutionize the future of work? | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Report: Companies that invested in automation saw 5% to 7% revenue increase | Within three months of investment, U.S. companies witnessed an average year-on-year increase in revenue of 7%, or an extra $195 billion per month, and saw an average annual increase in employment of 7%, equating to a total of 7.2 million jobs. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - The jury is still out on whether low and no code platforms can blaze a path to high-end application development -- at least not yet. | "Removing friction from adoption will help unleash the power of AI across all industries and allow non-specialists to literally predict the future. In time, no-code AI platforms will be as ubiquitous as word-processing or spreadsheet software is today," | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Report: Only half of companies employ a CISO | According to a new report from managed cloud service provider Navisite, nearly half (45%) of companies surveyed do not employ a chief information security officer (CISO). However, 58% believe they should hire a CISO or CSO. | Security |
| Datamation - The Internet of Things (IoT) Software Market | IoT software platforms will continue to play an integral role in how companies apply IoT data insights. Without a reliable analytics engine at the center of operations, IoT data is unable to be used to help teams make informed decisions that impact everything from guest comfort to creating safer, more resident-friendly communities | IoT/Data |
| VentureBeat - Report: 56% of workers admit they’ve accidentally deleted cloud data | Not only did 56% of those surveyed admit they’ve accidentally deleted files hosted in the cloud, but as many as one in five said they do so multiple times per week. | Cloud |
| The Next Web - What the hell is the difference between a data analyst and a data scientist? | The truth is that these roles will differ between different companies and industries, and ultimately the best way of finding a good job fit is to spend time reading through the entire job description. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Report: 70% of IT pros say security hygiene has gotten harder over past two years | However, 70% of organizations said they use more than ten security tools to manage security hygiene and posture management, which raises concerns about data management and operations overhead. | Security |
| Virtualization & Cloud Review - IEEE: Most Important 2022 Tech Is AI/Machine Learning, Cloud and 5G | "Among total respondents, more than one in five (21 percent) say AI and machine learning, cloud computing (20 percent), and 5G (17 percent) will be the most important technologies next year. | Tech Trends |
| Help Net Security - Big data in IoT market to reach $50.9 billion by 2026 | As IoT progresses, there will be an increasingly large amount of unstructured machine data. The growing amount of human-oriented and machine-generated data will drive substantial opportunities for AI support of unstructured data analytics solutions.. | Data/IoT |
| VentureBeat - Report: 98% of IT leaders concerned about security challenges due to hybrid workforce | According to a new report by Teradici, 78% of respondents across a range of industries are currently implementing zero trust or are planning to do so in the next two years. VPN is expected to be replaced by remote access and zero trust to best protect corporate assets as hybrid workforces become the norm. | Security |
| Network World - IDC: Cisco, Fortinet, HPE-Aruba, VMware lead hot SD-WAN market | “MarketScape: Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure 2021 Vendor Assessment” looks at the capabilities of 12 SD-WAN infrastructure vendors evaluating then on a core set of SD-WAN features such as WAN routing, WAN link management, application-based policy controls, and application steering and prioritization. | Network Management |
| diginomica - How data sprawl chokes innovation — and what to do now | When asked where costs were highest, the top answer was BI and reporting (54%). This isn’t surprising given the number of apps and the sheer number of analysts using those apps. A quarter of respondents had more than 500 data analysts in the organization. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Top lesson from SolarWinds attack: Rethink identity security | “People need to recognize that, and they don’t,” he said. “That’s my biggest message to people: You’ve spent a lot of money on identity, but it’s mostly how to let the good guys in. You’ve really got to spend some money on understanding when that identity infrastructure is compromised, and maintaining that infrastructure.” | Security |
| Infoworld - Security is the Achilles’ heel of multicloud | Security is top of mind, with only 54% saying they are highly confident they have the tools or skills to pull off multicloud security, and 51% saying they have resisted moving to multiple clouds because of the added security complexities. | Cloud Security |
| VentureBeat - Deprecating the cookie: The impact of eliminating third-party identifiers | The most apparent beneficiaries from the death of third-party identifiers are the web’s walled gardens, especially Google and Facebook, which have vast pools of data about users and their browsing habits and no one else can access it. | Data & Analytics |
| datanami - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Cloud Computing and 5G Will be the Most Important Technologies in 2022, Says New IEEE Study | Among total respondents, more than one in five (21%) say AI and machine learning, cloud computing (20%) and 5G (17%) will be the most important technologies next year. Because of the global pandemic, technology leaders surveyed said in 2021 they accelerated adoption of cloud computing (60%), AI and machine learning (51%), and 5G (46%), among others. | Tech Trends |
| Virtualization & Cloud Review - Cybersecurity Study Sees Zero Trust Replacing VPNs | And that's already happening, with 78 percent of respondents currently implementing or planning to implement Zero Trust architectures in the next two years, while 19 percent are planning such implementations but are unsure of when. | Security |
| Blocks & Files - Analyse this: storage startup funding in 2021 | $5.74 billion was invested in 36 storage startups this year, with the vast majority of it – $4.55 billion – going into data lake/warehouse and analytics companies. | Data Storage |
| econotimes - Tai Sunnanon Covers the Five Trends in Big Data for 2022 | Smarter, more responsible, scalable AI will enable better learning algorithms, interpretable systems, and shorter time to value. Organizations will begin to require a lot more from AI systems, and they’ll need to figure out how to scale the technologies — something that up to this point has been challenging | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - Five ways to step up software reliability | "Using AI and ML reduces a lot of noise and improves the noise-to-signal ratio. Avoiding alert fatigue helps reduce toil and burnout by enabling SRE professionals to chase only the major incidents and spend the rest of their time productively in coding and automation efforts." | Artificial Intelligence |
| The Journal - 3 in 10 Districts Lack Cloud Security Coverage | Among the respondents, a comparable share said their schools were primarily running either Google Workspace (43%) or Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 (41%); fewer numbers said they had only Microsoft 365 (9%) or something else (1%). Just six percent said they used no cloud-based environment whatsoever. | EdTech |
| VentureBeat - IT skills gap is forcing leaders to prioritize cloud and security hires | At the same time, 50% of IT departments say cybersecurity is their most important area of investment, followed by cloud computing, governance, and compliance. | IT Management |
| ZDNet - Why conversational AI is now ready for prime time | At the conference, NVIDIA also unveiled Riva Custom Voice, a new toolkit that can be used to create custom voices with only 30 minutes of speech recording data. | Artificial Intelligence |
| TMCNET - CompTIA Forecasts a Return to Acceleration, Innovation and Strategy for the IT Industry in 2022 | "We are seeing signs of this in IT budgets, in the initiatives that companies are planning and in the skills employers are looking to add." | Tech Trends |
| CIODive - JumpCloud Survey Finds IT Admins Thankful for Jobs and Co-Workers Despite Few Pay Increases and Feeling Overwhelmed | Almost two years into the pandemic, IT teams responsible for securing remote work report having the greatest gratitude for their job, for remote work, and for their ability to secure their workplace in the new hybrid model. | IT Management |
| BusinessToday.IN - Decarbonisation' to 'wireless charging’: Emerging tech in WEF's top 10 list for 2021 | The first technology on the list is 'decarbonisation'. As countries and big business houses commit to reducing carbon emissions, efforts are on globally to drive decarbonisation in all aspects of daily life. | Emerging Tech |
| Yahoo - Robot Software Market - Growth, Trends, COVID-19 Impact, and Forecasts (2021 - 2026) | The major factors driving the growth of the robot software market are the adoption of artificial intelligence, reduction of labor cost, increased accuracy, enhanced speed, improved quality, and scalability of production | Automation & Productivity |
| Digital Doughnut - Consumer Confidence in Data Privacy Falls; Trusted Brands Benefit | With confidence in privacy reducing, the positive impact of brand trust is increasing. Willingness to buy from trusted brands is on the rise. 87% said they are more willing to buy from companies that handled personal data as they should. | Privacy |
| ZDNet - Tech jobs are booming, and hybrid working sees more women join the industry | The data also revealed that technology was the third-fastest sector for growth in jobs in the UK overall, and also third fastest for the creation of jobs for women: 41,000 women were employed by the information and communications sector between July and September, compared to 17,000 men. | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - Report: 95% of businesses will make multicloud a strategic priority in 2022 | According to a recent survey from Valtix, while 95% of businesses are making multicloud a strategic priority in 2022, with security being top of mind (96%), only 54% feel highly confident that they have the tools or skills they need to execute. | Cloud |
| Forbes - The Great Tech Revolution: Trends That Are Changing Finance As We Know It | By 2022, it’s expected that the fintech market value will reach $309.98 billion, more than twice its 2018 value of $127.66 billion. But this investment isn’t just about the numbers. It goes much deeper into how clients interact with a company and even dictates business processes from staffing requirements and technology needs | Fintech |
| VentureBeat - Report: Flawed data management leads to lost revenue for most companies | Sixty-nine percent of data and analytics leaders say their business outcomes at their company would be somewhat or significantly improved if their data team were able to contribute more to business decisions rather than manual pipeline management. | Data & Analytics |
| Network World - Report: Chip shortage and edge/IoT will drive IT change in 2022 | The author of a new report from Forrester Research says that the simultaneous growth of IoT and edge computing usage are interlinked, and that future growth in both areas will be fueled heavily by federal regulations to reduce emissions. | IoT/Edge Computing |
| VentureBeat - Report: 69% of businesses say cloud technologies helped their pandemic recovery | It’s no surprise that enterprise cloud adoption skyrocketed during the pandemic, but what might surprise some is that even traditional, non-tech SMBs are relying heavily on cloud solutions in their recovery (43%). | Cloud |
| Crunchbase - VCs Will Spend Billions More To Make The Metaverse A Reality | While still a fairly nebulous concept, the metaverse is, broadly speaking, viewed by many as the next phase of the internet, where online experiences will combine to form something of an immersive virtual experience. It combines virtual reality, augmented reality, gaming, and other digital social experiences into 3D virtual worlds | Emerging Tech |
| ZDNet - 6 things businesses can do right now to leverage 5G | The list starts with an obvious step: Companies should migrate their entire workforces to 5G-powered smartphones, ensuring employees can take full advantage of the modern communication environment and new productivity applications. | 5G |
| The Tribune - The most in-demand skill sets for 2022 | As the corporate world moves away from monolithic architecture to microservices for faster and easy development and deployment of applications, demand for full-stack cloud practitioners and cloud integration architects skilled in Python, Ruby, Java, Node, etc are gaining momentum. | Cloud |
| Medgadget - Healthcare Cyber Security Market Report | Latest Revenues and Future Potentials Analysis | The increasing adoption of cloud-based solutions in the medical or healthcare industry is likely to fuel growth impetus in the market. In addition to this, the adoption of 5G technology and the rising adoption of connected smartphones and devices are also stimulating expansion avenues in the healthcare cyber security market | Security |
| T_HQ - Does the single-vendor cloud approach still make sense? IBM says no | What IBM is further trying to say is that the one-vendor approach to cloud computing that was the standard of the past would also slowly disappear, because, a recent survey by Big Blue found that only 3% of decision-makers are using a single private or public cloud in 2021, down from 29% in 2019. | Cloud |
| InfoWorld - Why AI investments fail to deliver | Instead of thinking of an AI or machine learning project as a one-shot wonder, like upgrading a database or adopting a new CRM system, it’s best to think of AI as an old-fashioned capital investment, similar to how a manufacturer would justify the acquisition of an expensive machine. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Ransomware attacks are getting more complex and even harder to prevent | Two recent research studies — Ivanti’s latest ransomware report, conducted with Cyber Security Works and Cyware, and a second study by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Cyware — show there’s a widening gap between how quickly enterprises can identify a ransomware threat versus the quickness of a cyberattack. | Security |
| ZDNet - 91% of IT leaders affected by supply chain disruption: survey | "But IT executives are grappling with real challenges. Talent shortages and global supply chain issues impede progress as IT is being tasked with more responsibility than ever before to power the business, and our new report also identifies several internal roadblocks, too." | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - Report: 39% of orgs report an increase in tech employee turnover | The survey found that 72% are accelerating their digital transformation strategies. However, an overwhelming 91% say that traditional IT operations (ITOps) are no longer fit for purpose in the digital era. | IT Management |
| AiThority - How Badly Do Companies Suffer Due to Incomplete RFPs? | Sixty-four percent of respondents reported an increase in the volume of RFPs received in 2021, compared to 2020, with most experiencing around 30% more requests. Additionally, 64% of companies using proposal management software experienced higher business win rates in 2021 over last year, with a median improvement of 59%. | IT Procurement |
| ZDNet - As technology skills demand grows, so does attention to low-code and no-code solutions | The most impactful applications that are being built outside of IT's domain "are the ones that manage interactive processes with external customers," Ding relates. "These are the innovations we saw over the past year, when accelerated needs led to faster business application deployment | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Report: New banking trojans rise 80% each year | The report found that Android devices were targeted more often than iOS devices due to their developer openness. In 2020, 87% of Americans used a mobile device to check their bank balance, with 72.21% of all mobile devices in July 2021 being Androids and 26.92% iOS devices. | Security |
| Will Telcos Seize This $9.5B Security Opportunity? | Appledore forecasts that by 2026, communications services providers stand to make $17.9 billion by delivering managed services to enterprise customers. Of that almost $18 billion, $9.5 billion will come from automated security services. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 99% of federal security pros want the government to increase data protection | According to new research from Tripwire, 95% of security pros in the private sector think the government should play a bigger role in securing non-governmental organizations (NGOs). More specifically, critical infrastructure representatives say they need improvement and enforcement of security standards (52%), including NIST guidelines. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Here’s why Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud momentum is accelerating | We’ll share some new data from Enterprise Technology Research based on the most recent survey, drill into some of the reasons for the momentum of AWS and Azure, and drill further into the database and data warehouse sector to see what, if anything, has changed in that space. | Cloud |
| Microsoft - How to assess and improve the security culture of your business | We’ve seen a lot of improvement in recent years, and that’s largely because there’s more awareness among leaders that security culture is important. Just 5 years ago, but particularly 10 years ago, there was very little discussion around culture and security culture. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: Technical debt makes 51% of engineers think about quitting | However, companies tend to underinvest in maintenance and codebase health. Engineers often feel pressure to sacrifice code quality to meet deadlines and ship new features fast, which increases the growth and impact of technical debt. | DevOps |
| Campus Technology - Free Resources to Help with Remote Learning in 2022 | While hundreds of education companies, nonprofits and other organizations made their software and services free during the immediate switch to remote learning, many have become more thoughtful about how they help educators master online and blended instruction. | E-Learning |
| CMSWire - 6 U.S. States With Pending Consumer Data Privacy Legislation | Nearly 20% will run more A/B testing, 16% will change automation flows, and 10% will message their audience about Apple Mail Privacy Protection or privacy in general. | Privacy |
| VentureBeat - Report: 83% of U.S. orgs up their cybersecurity efforts for the new world of remote work | Of the surveyed respondents, the U.S. leads with the use of a required two-factor identification authentication process at 34%, the U.K. leads with established VPN use at 43%, and Japan leads with the use of company-provided antivirus software for remote employees at 25% | Security |
| Datadog - 10 Trends in Real-World Container Use | In this report, we examined more than 1.5 billion containers run by tens of thousands of Datadog customers to understand how they are scaling and supporting their container environments. | Data & Analytics |
| Forbes - FAANG-Leader Microsoft Is Banking On 4 Key Trends | Amazon Web Services could arguably be the hardest competitor in technology and Microsoft accepted this challenge despite AWS having a nearly four-year head start. Growth rates for both companies’ cloud divisions are in the 35% to 40% range. | Cloud |
| TechBullion - 4 Biggest E-commerce Challenges in 2021 | “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months. From remote teamwork and learning to sales and customer service, to critical cloud infrastructure and security—we are working alongside customers every day to help them adapt and stay open for business in a world of remote everything,” | Automation & Productivity |
| SiliconANGLE - What could disrupt Amazon? Here’s a sneak peek at early survey results | Changes in technology have historically been the most powerful disruptive force. There is certainly no guarantee that Amazon – or America — will be a leader in quantum computing, machine-to-machine architectures, virtual reality and augmented reality, artificial intelligence and other emerging areas | Emerging Tech |
| VentureBeat - Report: 90% of IT execs are embracing SASE migrations | Among the major reasons why leaders in this space haven’t jumped on their plans to implement SASE is because they need the right infrastructure and advisors to properly adopt the solution. | Security |
| ZDNet - Quantum computing skills are hard to find. Here's how companies are tackling the shortage | Quantum computing, for example, combines a variety of specialist fields – such as quantum theory, advanced mathematics and computer science – that aren't seen on your typical CV, shrinking the talent pool considerably for companies looking to hire in this nascent, but increasingly competitive, industry. | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - Report: 64% of IT execs prefer a simplified path to IoT deployment | According to a new report by Oracle, 64% of enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) decision-makers would opt for an “off-the-shelf” IoT solution over a custom-built offering, indicating a market shift in the way enterprises are viewing IoT adoption. | IoT |
| AiThority - Predictions Series 2022: Interview with Anders Lithner and Alessio Fattore | We first have to be mindful that it’s a huge step to go from data around campaign delivery, for example, impressions, to data around actual conversions, because a lot happens in between. And just because you’re exposed to an ad, it doesn’t mean you paid attention to it. | Marketing Tech |
| Datanami - Data Decision Gap Risks Holding Back Economic Recovery, Global Research Finds | The research showed 95% of organizations suffer from the data decision gap, which is the inability to bring together the internal and external data needed to make accurate and trusted decisions. This is due to inaccurate and incomplete datasets, which ultimately impact the bottom line. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Google Research changes the game for medical imaging with self-supervised learning | Early results show that the technique can reduce the need for annotated data and improve the performance of deep learning models in medical applications. | Emerging Tech |
| ZDNet - The IT skills gap is getting worse. Here are 10 ways you can avoid a crisis | "So not only are you trying to attract new talent in, but you're trying to keep the back door shut, so that people don't go off and leave you. For CIOs, the skills crisis is now a massive challenge." | Tech Jobs |
| Wired - The Turing Test Is Bad For Business | Amid all the hype, US businesses have been slow in adopting the most advanced AI technologies, and there is little evidence that such technologies are contributing significantly to productivity growth or job creation. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxcentral - VMware Research: Spying on Employees Is Bad for Trust | One global survey of 7,600 IT and business decision makers commissioned by VMware found 70% of companies surveyed have implemented or plan to implement some type of employee surveillance measures. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this “drastically increases” employee turnover. | IT Management |
| finextra - Cloud adoption in banking accelerates | Cost is the biggest driver of cloud adoption (43%), followed by the adoption of AI (34%) and improving customer experience (21%). Business agility, elasticity and scalability are together cited by 40% of respondents as top drivers. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - How Kubermatic helps automate Kubernetes across any infrastructure | What this means is that developers themselves, rather than a handful of senior figures further up the IT chain, can access a self-service Kubernetes platform to deploy their clusters across any infrastructure — and centrally manage all their workloads from a single dashboard. | Automation & Productivity |
| Forbes - Top Five Cybersecurity Threats And How To Avoid Them | Mobile security threats encompass a variety of security threats that affect mobile devices. They include: app-based threats (malicious apps), web-based threats (phishing), network threats (free Wi-Fi), physical threats (no PIN or biometric authentication) | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 58M Americans were victims of fraud in the past year | According to a new report by identity verification solution provider IDology, 58 million Americans had a new account fraudulently opened in their names in the past 12 months — a 21% increase since the onset of the pandemic. | Privacy & Security |
| Cyolo - What’s the Difference Between SSE and SASE? | In its latest Hype Cycle for Cloud Security, Gartner introduced a new technology: SSE (Security Service Edge). SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) also remains part of the hype cycle. In this blog we’ll dive into what SSE is, examine how it’s connected to SASE, and reveal where and how ZTNA comes into play. | Security |
| VentureBeat - B2B SaaS drives global enterprise tech growth, says BCG report | The results showed that a third of the companies belonged to the B2B SaaS space, with 75% of the lot being headquartered in the United States. | SaaS |
| ZDNet - Average ransomware payment for US victims more than $6 million, survey says | Of that 80%, 39% paid a ransom, with US victims paying an average of $6,312,190. Victims in Canada paid an average of $5,347,508 while those in the UK paid nearly $850,000. | Security |
| Proofpoint - Caught Beneath the Landline: A 411 on Telephone Oriented Attack Delivery | Proofpoint researchers have observed an increase in attacks perpetuated by threat actors leveraging a robust ecosystem of call center-based email threats. The attacks rely on victims to call the attackers directly and initiate the interaction | Security |
| VentureBeat - Curbing computing’s environmental footprint requires efficient algorithms | Algorithms are the recipes that tell computers what to do and in what order. And while Moore’s Law has been giving us computers that can do many more operations per second, algorithm improvement has been providing better recipes for what to do more with each of those operations — and the benefits can be enormous | Sustainability |
| Datanami - Tableau Pledges to Train 10 Million Data People | In ‘The Great Data Literacy Gap: Demand For Data Skills Exceeds Supply‘2, a Tableau-commissioned Forrester research study, recruiters ranked data literacy as the most in-demand skill for entry-level candidates. | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - Google and AWS harness the power of machine learning to predict floods and fires | Google has published a non-peer-reviewed paper about its flood forecasting system with machine-learning models that it claims provide "accurate real-time flood warnings to agencies and the public, with a focus on riverine floods in large, gauged rivers". | Machine Learning |
| Threatpost - Security Tool Guts: How Much Should Customers See? | Should we avoid deep learning and complicated algorithms for the sake of making risk engines easier to understand? I think not. | Security |
| ZDNet - Cybersecurity: This prolific hacker-for-hire operation has targeted thousands of victims around the world | The key services offered are breaking into email and social media accounts, as well as stealing and selling sensitive personal and financial information. The attacks will also occasionally drop information-stealing malware onto devices used by victims. | Privacy & Security |
| sdxcentral - Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point Lead Gartner’s Firewall Magic Quadrant | Gartner crowned Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Check Point as the top three firewall providers in its latest Magic Quadrant report. | Security |
| Network World - Wacky as Facebook’s metaverse sounds, enterprises will have to deal with it | What makes the concept relevant to enterprises are the Facebook decision to embrace metaverse as the future, the fact that others like Microsoft are following along, and the promise that it could redefine meetings, sales calls, support, and even work overall. Network planners would then have to consider its impact on traffic and connectivity. | Emerging Tech |
| Datanami - IDC FutureScape: Top 10 Predictions for the Future of Digital Infrastructure | “Digital infrastructure spans compute, storage, network, and infrastructure software, including virtualization and containers, and the automation, AI/ML analytics, and security software and cloud services needed to maintain and optimize both legacy and modern applications and data," | Tech Trends |
| Techstartups - Addressing the Top Cybersecurity Challenges of 2021 | In its Global Risks Report 2021, the World Economic Forum listed five top cybersecurity challenges. These are the increased complexity of cyber threats, fragmented and complex regulations, dependence on other parties, lack of cybersecurity expertise, and the difficulty in tracking cybercriminals. | Security |
| ZDNet - Tech jobs: These are the highest-paying roles, and here's where to find them | IT managers, system architects, cloud engineers and cybersecurity engineers took home the biggest salaries last year, according to the latest Tech Salary Report from jobs website Dice, with Texas and other emerging hubs taking big leaps forward. | Tech Jobs |
| SiliconANGLE - The top five product announcements from Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference | Nvidia’s Omniverse Replicator is a synthetic data-generation engine that creates simulated data for training neural networks that would power a virtual world. It’s easy to have some skepticism around the use of virtual worlds, but Nvidia showcased to applications that I would consider low-hanging fruit for the Omniverse. | Emerging Tech |
| VentureBeat - Report: Fintech daily active users increase by 337% | Digital is a massive opportunity for organizations, but what kinds of applications and products are people using the most? Amplitude identified the top 20 next hottest products based on user growth, and found that many of them — such as SmartRecruiters, CloudApp, Productiv, and Stoplight — offer B2B solutions for enterprise companies | Fintech |
| ZDNet - These cybersecurity vulnerabilities could leave millions of connected medical devices open to attack | The vulnerabilities could be present in millions of devices based around Nucleus TCP/IP stacks and could allow attackers to engage in remote code execution, denial of service attacks and even leak data – although researchers can't say for certain if they've actively been exploited by cyber criminals. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 40% of execs say increasing business process efficiency is top benefit of AI | When looking at the most indispensable capabilities of artificial intelligence, 34% of respondents listed explainability and trust as the top capability, 25% chose the ability to easily scale, and 24% selected delivering specific or personalized insights. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - MIT’s Neuroscientists Establish Relationship Between Human Brain and Next-word ML-based Prediction Models | The latest announcement from MIT correlates how next-word prediction models that are used in search, discovery, and analytics actually resemble language-processing centers in the brain | Artificial Intelligence |
| eWeek - The Public Cloud Market: How Big Will It Get? | It’s hard to know exactly how large Azure is, since Microsoft lumps it into a cloud services category that includes Office 365, but I arbitrarily assigned half of the category’s Q3 revenue to it; | Cloud |
| O'Reilly - Cloud Adoption Steadily Rising Across Industries, But Managing Cost Remains A Concern, New O’Reilly Research Reveals | The report explores the latest trends in cloud, microservices, distributed application development, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. | Cloud |
| The Guardian - New cybersecurity format threatens hybrid workplace | The research, HP Wolf Security report, showed that a growing number of users are buying and connecting unsanctioned devices outside of IT’s purview. It also highlighted that threat levels are rising, with attackers increasingly successful at bypassing defenses and tricking users into initiating attacks through phishing | Security |
| The Hill - Inertia is the enemy of cybersecurity | The U.S. government is a high-value target, and relying on one vendor for 85 percent of its communications and collaboration software shines a bright light on that fact. It highlights a large attack surface and makes it too easy for criminals and state actors looking for major vulnerabilities. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 57% of all ecommerce cyberattacks are bot-driven | This breed of bot is the hardest to stop because they produce mouse movements and clicks that resemble human behavior. Sophisticated bots evade simple defenses and are responsible for account takeover, fraud, and denial of inventory that makes it harder for legitimate shoppers to get the goods they want. | Security |
| AiThority - International Federation Of Robotics: “Service Robots” Hit Double Digit Growth Worldwide | Hospitality robots enjoy growing popularity generating turnover of 249 million US dollars. Turnover for robots for food and drink preparation almost tripled to 32 million US dollars (+196%). | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Report: Cloud adoption by orgs increases to 90% | Not only is cloud adoption growing, but respondents are approaching cloud migration aggressively. The survey found that almost half (48%) of respondents plan to migrate 50% or more of their applications to the cloud in the coming year, while 20% plan to migrate all of their applications. | Cloud |
| threatpost - 3 Guideposts for Building a Better Incident-Response Plan | One of the core elements to building a quality incident-response plan is candor. It requires objectively evaluating time-sensitive use cases that arise from a security incident and determining if your current bench is up to the task. | Security |
| VentureBeat - 12 factors heating up the popularity of digital twins and simulations | Some more exciting improvements will involve AI-supported modeling for reconstructing buildings, live labeling, and AI frameworks. Top omniverse use cases will combine simulation and collaboration for urban planning, location scouting, architectural acceptance, logistics, UAV flight planning, and insurance. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Computerworld - US IT job growth slows because of too few candidates | Many of the new positions that CIOs are trying to fill are in new technologies. There is a shortfall of individuals who have the training and skills necessary. There are open positions that cannot be filled. … At the same, time attrition rates are on the rise in many IT organizations | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - Report: Only 7% of IT decision-makers say they’re equipped for digital transformation | Furthermore, IT decision-makers believe they are 4.71 months behind where they should be on digital transformation implementation, whereas business decision-makers put that estimate at 5.34 | Automation & Productivity |
| AiThority - CDNetworks Releases State of the Web Security for 2020: Web Application Attacks Surged 740% | The Report states that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), Web application, bot, and API attacks have a global surge in 2020 compared to 2019. In particular, the CDNetworks security platform monitored and intercepted 9.524 billion Web application attacks, 7.4 times more than in 2019. | Security |
| VentureBeat - How secure access services edge security will transform networks | Overall, the panel seemed to largely focus on a key question, “How do we convince the C-Suite?” Panelists agreed that SASE is the future of data security and secure access, but disagreed on how long it will take for a cloud adoption tipping point moment. | Security |
| sdxcentral - VMware Eyes 5G Inflection Point for SD-WAN, SASE | While SD-WAN, which enables dynamic policy-based routing of traffic across multiple heterogeneous underlay networks, presents enterprises with a compelling alternative to rigid MPLS WAN architectures, the two argued that it also leaves communications service providers (CSPs) in a tricky spot. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - Decentralization may be key to protecting our digital identities | Researchers around the world are working to create alternatives to our existing digital identities through the decentralized web, or Web 3.0. These alternatives use new protocols that remove the need for intermediaries during transactions, while further democratizing the web and bringing value back to creators and participants | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 94% of devs say their company experienced a ‘preventable’ cyberattack | The Cyber Security Cloud Inc. survey provides detailed information on developers who work hands-on in this arena — those who manage cloud and web applications in a hostile digital world and who understand the need for a web application firewall (WAF) and its operational improvement. | Security |
| Datanami - Academy Paper Examines Emerging Issues Brought About by the Increased Use of Big Data and Algorithms in Insurance | A new public policy paper published by the American Academy Actuaries, Big Data and Algorithms in Actuarial Modeling and Consumer Impacts, provides a framework for consumers, regulators, legislators, insurers, and actuaries seeking to better understand how the increased use of big data and algorithms is impacting insurance, and some of the challenges the changes are creating. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Report: Career change is a prominent option for 72% of tech workers | Besides pay and benefits, the top three reasons appear to be limited career progression, lack of flexibility in working hours, and toxic work environment. | Tech Jobs |
| ZDNet - Online safety and end-to-end encryption can co-exist, says data protection watchdog. But how? | The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), an independent body that oversees information rights in the UK, has published the results of initial deliberations that were carried out on end-to-end encryption (E2EE), in light of a years-long debate that has divided governments, social media platforms and freedom-of-speech activist groups. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: Enterprise use of AI to predict cash flow expected to increase 450% | While just 6% of respondents currently use AI/ML technology to predict and understand their cash forecasting, enterprises’ reported plans indicate that, within two years, that number will reach 27%. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Digital transformation, IT spending, Windows 11, ransomware, and more: Tech research roundup | Analyst IDC says spending on digital transformation will total more than $6.8 trillion between 2020 and 2023 - a compound annual growth rate of 15.5%. IDC says that that figure translates into nearly two-thirds (65%) of global GDP being digitalised by 2022. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - The rise of Kubernetes and its impact on enterprise databases | The rise of DBaaS, Kubernetes, and Operators should help the adoption of NoSQL to skyrocket in the following years, as they can deliver better performance, lower cost, and higher productivity, but this time without the upfront cost of learning how to manage it. | Data & Analytics |
| AiThority - How AI Is Playing An Increasingly Integral Role In The Data-Dependent Esports Betting & Gaming Industries | PandaScore’s AI platform, for example, collects 300 data points in League of Legends in half a second. The system continually learns based on history and incoming data to provide the most current breakdowns and predictions about who will win, lose, accomplish certain tasks, etc. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - The Pandemic's Wake Drives Automation Trends | In 2022, Forrester predicts that existing process improvement platforms will converge and be challenged by new AI-led entrants; investment to address global worker shortages will be prioritized; and to address the future head-on, enterprises will embrace an automation fabric to fuel extreme innovation. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Cloud datacenters anticipated to become largely robot-dependent by 2025 | The typical workflow in a cloud datacenter comprises a host of different actions. These actions include capacity planning, VM rightsizing, rightsizing the container environments, and ensuring that there is no cloud waste for enterprises as well as their buyers. | Automation & Productivity |
| sdxcentral - The Perimeter Isn't Dead (Yet) and SASE Won't Kill It | According to Clark, large enterprises, especially Fortune 200 and Fortune 500 companies are going to have traditional networking and security perimeters for a long time. The driving force behind how fast they adopt technologies like SASE, he said, is “how fast is the majority of my data going to be in the cloud.” | Security |
| Network World - Cisco NaaS study: IT pros are interested but wary | Typically, NaaS shifts the burden of day-to-day network management to a third-party provider and allowing enterprise network engineers to spend less time on repetitive network operations and more on making sure policy, performance and security are aligned to business needs, Cisco stated. | Network Management |
| Forbes - Can Zero Trust Save Enterprises From A Threat Tsunami? | Given the unique threat landscape enterprises are currently facing, a secure access service edge (SASE) solution in combination with a true zero-trust environment could be the key to providing critical support to security teams against the looming threat tsunami. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 6% of IT and business leaders say their data management is a ‘dumpster fire’ | For organizations spending millions, or even billions, on data and analytics, data sprawl is the unplanned result of layer after layer of individual initiatives in which data is copied, exported, or sent to various applications | Data & Analytics |
| AiThority - CyberArk Research Lack Of Security Controls And Visibility Into User Activity Continue To Put Organizations At Risk | According to the research, in 70 percent of organizations, the average end-user has access to more than 10 business applications, many of which contain high-value data – creating ample opportunity for a malicious actor | Security |
| VentureBeat - Study finds over half of enterprises are not effectively stopping cyberattacks | In a mixed bag of results, 82% of survey respondents said that their companies had increased cybersecurity spending this past year, but at the same time, the number of successful breaches, including unauthorized access to data, applications, services, networks, or devices, jumped 31% over the previous year, to 270 per company on average. | Security |
| ZDNet - Revealed: The 10 worst hardware security flaws in 2021 | MITRE publishes the the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) for software flaws, but this year has run a survey to create its first ever equivalent list for hardware flaws. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 93% of U.S. orgs experienced employee misuse of web apps | Generally, security teams limit user permissions within applications to just what’s needed to get the job done (also known as least privilege). However, some users, such as executives, application owners, and administrators, may receive elevated privileges, allowing them to perform highly sensitive tasks such as approvals and modifications. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Microsoft says all business will be collaborative, and infused with data and AI | One implication of this view is that collaboration can’t just happen within Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, or Outlook; it should flow between them and operational applications | Artificial Intelligence |
| Blocks and Files - Critical capabilities: Gartner rates Scality top of the heap in distributed file and object storage | Vendor products were evaluated against seven use cases: analytics, archiving, backup hybrid cloud storage, cloud-native applications, cloud IT operations, and commercial HPC. | Data Storage |
| AiThority - Predictions Series 2022: Top AI-based Cybersecurity Trends to Secure Your Enterprise | If a system is not trained and misclassifies data, we need to have the sense to question the results and understand how the AI arrived at this decision, rather than having blind trust in it | AI/Security |
| ZDNet - Phishing attacks are harder to spot on your smartphone. That's why hackers are using them more | And while the rise in mobile working has allowed businesses to continue operating, the increase in the use of personal devices and remote working has also boosted security risks – according to Lookout, 41% of mobile devices in the energy industry aren't managed by employers. | Security |
| Blocks and Files - Backblaze finds Seagate disk drives fail most often | It accumulates failure statistics every quarter for its tens of thousands of disk drives and uses these to calculate life time annualised failure rate (AFR) for each drive type it buys. | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Report: 44% of enterprises experience API security issues | According to a new report conducted by Cloudentity, 44% of respondents have experienced at least substantial API authorization issues concerning privacy, data leakage, and object property exposure with one or both of internal and external-facing APIs | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Identity management issues a serious enterprise issue during the pandemic | As businesses seek to optimize their overall cybersecurity posture, identity sprawl is described as one critical obstacle to overcome More than half of respondents said they use more than 25 different systems to manage access rights, with one in five respondents using more than 100. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: Only 31% of employees are trained against ransomware attacks | Seventy-four percent of leaders and employees said the training they received provided personal best practices for security of company information, while only 52% said they’d received training on how to resist phishing attacks, for example. | Security |
| ZDNet - Why AI still needs humans in the loop, at least for now | The possible harms with code generation include the code being wrong but looking right; it's still up to the coder to review the AI-powered suggestions and make sure they understand what they do, but not everyone will do that. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SiliconANGLE - As hackers take aim at energy companies, mobile phishing surges | Based on telemetry from more than 200 million devices, 150 million apps and detections from the Lookout Security Web Gateway, the report finds that mobile phishing targeting in the energy industry surged 161% between the second half of 2020 and the first half of 2021. | Security |
| Forbes - The 8 Biggest Business Trends In 2022 | And of course, sustainability is linked to resilience, since resilience means being able to adapt and survive for the long term. Any business that ignores sustainability is unlikely to do well in this age of conscious consumption. | Sustainability |
| Network World - How to choose an edge gateway | The fulcrum that balances the weight of raw data generated by OT-based sensors, actuators, and controllers with the IT requirement that only essential data be transmitted to the cloud is the edge gateway. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - How to go hybrid: The right recipe for mixing on-prem and cloud computing | Overprovisioning of cloud resources is one of them. Overprovisioning is a standard practice from the days of on-prem computing that has made the leap to the cloud, primarily as a result of companies employing “lift and shift” strategies for migrating, and it has sent cloud costs skyrocketing. | Cloud |
| Geekwire - Amazon partners with UCLA on science hub focusing on AI and its social impact | In a news release, UCLA said faculty from across its campus will collaborate with Amazon’s AI specialists to identify and solve research challenges in the field of artificial intelligence, with particular attention to issues such as algorithmic bias, fairness, accountability and responsible AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - Augmented And Virtual Reality In Healthcare Market Size To Reach USD 4367 Million By 2027 At CAGR 23.6% Valuates Reports | Based on application, Patient Care Management is expected to be the most lucrative segment. The application of augmented reality and virtual reality in therapies and rehabilitation would improve the market for augmented reality in healthcare and virtual reality in healthcare. | AR/VR |
| BMC exchange - CapEx vs OpEx: Capital Expenditures & Operating Expenses Explained | As many companies shift from traditional hardware and software ownership to as-a-service models, IT and finance departments must reconcile how best to classify cloud costs. | IT Management |
| Analytics Insight - Top 10 Machine Learning Hackathons for AI Professionals in 2021 | The popularity of machine learning and artificial intelligence is driving more and more technological innovations. The tech market is also attracting several new tech professionals, both from tech and non-tech backgrounds. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Technology Hits - Cloud Security 101 — What is Different About Cloud Security? | Introduction of five essential characteristics, three service models, and four deployment models of Cloud Security. | Cloud Security |
| VentureBeat - MLOps vs. DevOps: Why data makes it different | In contrast, a defining feature of ML-powered applications is that they are directly exposed to a large amount of messy, real-world data that is too complex to be understood and modeled by hand. | DevOps |
| eWeek - Why SecOps is Needed Now More Than Ever: Three Necessary Steps | It is common for midsize and large organizations to have 15 to 40 different point solutions in their core security stack, and up to 80 when you evaluate their complete technology portfolio. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Security AI is the next big thing | Given the complexity of modern attacks, “there is absolutely no way that human defenders can keep up with it, so we must have artificial intelligence capabilities in the technologies and solutions we’re providing," | Artificial Intelligence |
| Forbes - Five Best Practices For Scaling Data Science Across Organizations | Conceptualizing, planning, building and executing a data science model is a recursive process. Even in cases where a large amount of training data is available, data scientists seldom get the best model on the first run. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Report: 37% of IT admins fear software vulnerabilities more than cyber threats | These include vulnerability exploits (37%), ransomware (35%), use of unsecured networks (33%), and use of the same password across different applications (30%). | Security |
| sdxcentral - Amazon Cloud Sales Jump 39%, Top $16.1B | Microsoft Azure revenue climbed 50% year over year during the quarter, and Google Cloud revenue jumped 45% to $4.99 billion. Microsoft doesn’t disclose its public cloud revenue in dollars. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Report: 79% of IT teams have seen increase in endpoint security breaches | According to a new report by HP Wolf Security, 79% of IT teams have seen an increase in rebuild rates, indicating that hackers are becoming more successful at breaching the endpoint and compromising organizations’ devices and data. | Security |
| AiThority - Abacus.ai Publishes Paper on ‘Explainable Machine Learning’ for NeurIPS 2021 | Explainable Machine Learning is a sub-field within Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is also referred to as X-ML or XML, and projected to be the next biggest avenue for all AI and machine learning applications in the future. | Artificial Intelligence |
| threatpost - All Sectors Are Now Prey as Cyber Threats Expand Targeting | For instance, while healthcare and education have long been considered the most heavily attacked, that’s shifting. In the latest FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Report, researchers found that the prevalence of ransomware in those two sectors was lower than managed security service providers, the automotive and manufacturing sectors, telecommunications, and government. | Security |
| techstartups - Instagram, Netflix, and Messenger ranked amongst the most stress-inducing apps of 2021 | This year, it was revealed that the average person spends a total of 7 hours 11 minutes on their phone per day. But, whilst research proves that many of us turn to these apps to pass the time, how many of them are genuinely bringing us joy? | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Report: 83% of companies say 24-hour shutdown causes incapacitating damage | The disconnect between business risk and resources continues, as most security teams’ resources have received increases of less than 10% since employees began to work from home regardless of the growing attack surface and threat vectors. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Data mesh: a new paradigm for data management | The red line at 40% represents an elevated level of spending velocity. For the past eight quarters or so, we’ve seen machine learning and artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, containers and cloud as the four areas where chief information officers and technology buyers have shown the highest Net Scores. | Data Management |
| AiThority - Predictions Series 2022: Podcast Market Size to Double, Transcription Among Emerging Trends | According to Go Transcript, an intelligent human-driven transcription company, auto-transcribing would emerge as one of the biggest trends in the podcast market in 2022. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Report: 64% of security leaders identify obstacles to internal cyber threat intelligence | According to a new Forrester study commissioned by Cyware, 64% of respondents note that sharing cyber threat intelligence between their organizations’ security operations center (SOC), incident response, and threat intelligence teams is limited. | Security |
| Fedscoop - Machine learning and AI may help 5G cloud providers detect sophisticated attacks — NSA | “Stakeholders at all layers of the 5G cloud stack should leverage an analytic platform to develop and deploy analytics that process relevant data (cloud logs and other telemetry) available at that layer. | Cloud Security |
| Techopedia - The Top Ways to Use AI in Education | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming one of the disruptive factors in the educational business. AI in the education market was predicted to rise to $10.38 billion by 2026 (by 45.12% annually). AI EdTech startups are attracting millions of dollars in funding and millions of users. | EdTech |
| Deep Analysis - Hyland and the heavyweight fight ahead | Over the next few years, many business processes and tasks will be redesigned to meet new needs, which will mean significant change and churn. Organizations don’t simply want what they had before on-premises to be accessible remotely; they want to reinvent and reconfigure | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - Ransomware: It's a 'golden era' for cyber criminals - and it could get worse before it gets better | One of the key drivers behind the increased threat of ransomware is the amount of money that can be made; cyber criminals can walk away with millions of dollars from a single attack | Security |
| ZDNet - Cloud security in 2021: A business guide to essential tools and best practices | A business could set up the most secure enterprise cloud suite possible, but if it's too difficult to use, employees, frustrated with not being able to do their jobs, could turn to public cloud tools instead. | Cloud |
| sdxcentral - Why Akamai, Imperva Say CISOs Need a WAAP | The WAAP market is the evolution of the WAF. It started with cloud-delivered WAF services, and then some vendors began bundling WAFs with application-layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection before eventually adding more advanced bot management and API protection, | Security |
| ZDNet - HTTPS threats grow more than 314% through 2021: report | According to the report, the tech industry accounted for 50% of all attacks they tracked. Instances of malware were up 212% in the report and phishing rose by 90%. | Security |
| Network World - Why aren’t optical disks the top choice for archive storage? | It might come down to cost. At $79 for a 30TB LTO-8 tape cartridge, that’s more than 10 times cheaper than BD-R and ODA. And since most people never read their archives, any performance advantages of random access are completely lost on the average user | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Report: 83% of orgs leave most sensitive data unencrypted on the cloud | This is especially alarming as 24% of organizations report that the majority of their workloads and data now reside in the cloud, making them a prime target for threat actors. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: Confidential computing market could grow to $54B by 2026 | This exponential growth is being fueled by enterprise cloud and security initiatives, expanding regulations, especially in privacy-sensitive industries such as health care and financial services. | Privacy & Security |
| AiThority - 82% Of People Believe Robots Can Support Their Career Better Than Humans | 85 percent of people want technology to help define their future by identifying skills they need to develop (36 percent); recommending ways to learn new skills (36 percent); and providing next steps to progress towards career goals (32 percent). | Training/Certs |
| VentureBeat - Infrastructure and data issues hamper companies adopting AI, study finds | More than three-quarters of companies say that they have AI models that never come into use. For 20% of companies, the numbers look even worse, with only 10% of their models making it into production. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Markets Insider - Intertrust Group: Blockchain, Big Data Expected to Drive the Future of Tech in Private Fund Industry | The majority of respondents perceived big data and blockchain as the most important technology tools. Additionally, over the next five years, 46% see blockchain, or distributed ledger technology (DLT), as the most important to the future of fund administration and 37% cite big data. | Blockchain |
| VentureBeat - Deloitte: 14% of US orgs remain defenseless as cybersecurity threats loom | However, despite the higher rate of incidents, nearly 14% of these executives reported that their firms do not have a cyber threat defense plan. Outside the U.S., just 6% of executives had this response. | Security |
| ZDNet - Nearly all US execs have experienced a cybersecurity threat, but some say there's still no plan | he research -- including insight from those in CEO, CISO, and other leadership roles -- suggests that nearly all US executives have come across at least one cybersecurity event over the past year, 98%, in comparison to 84% internationally. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 77% of companies lost revenue due to bot attacks | As Kasada’s report found, 85% of companies have had trouble stopping bad bots, as their existing solutions became ineffective a year after initial deployment | Security |
| MENAFN- Cloud Backup Market Share Current and Future Industry Trends, 2021-2030 | The global cloud backup market was valued at USD 1.29 billion in 2016 and is projected to reach USD 10.25 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 25.90% from 2017 to 2025. | Cloud |
| The Enterprisers Project - Digital transformation: 7 in-demand technology skills | Organizations today continue to invest in digital transformation priorities, and the demand for those with skills in cloud, rapid application development (low code), and new-age technologies is growing | Tech Jobs |
| SiliconANGLE - IT automation is speeding up. So are questions about how to implement it | Others whos should be interfacing with the technology include “administrators, DevOps, SRE [Site Reliability Engineering], common users, normal people who are just trying to get things done,” | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - The State of AI in 2021: Language models, healthcare, ethics, and AI agnosticism | Last year was the time when this sort of problem solving approach of using machine learning for various things went on overdrive. One of the outputs of of this idea of using machine learning in biology is in the pharmaceutical industry. | Artificial Intelligence |
| eWEEK - Top AI Software | Of course, sorting through options and vendors can be daunting. What’s more, software offerings are advancing and changing rapidly. As a result, business and IT leaders should focus on solutions that not only unlock process improvements and cost savings, but also fuel innovation and disruption. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - Deloitte AI Institute Uncovers Key Driving Forces in an AI-fueled Organization | The findings in the report aim to help companies overcome challenges to becoming an AI-fueled organization, no matter what stage of AI transformation they are in, and especially to help those who are earlier in their transformation. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Gartner: Citizen developers will soon outnumber professional coders 4 to 1 | Instead of complaining about “shadow IT” efforts outside the control of the CIO, IT should engage with business unit developers to make sure they have what they need to get their work done. | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - Artificial intelligence sees more funding, but needs more people and better data | While the report focuses on AI academia and specific advancements in medicine and other areas, there are important developments raised for those seeking to leverage AI and machine learning to move forward in building intelligent enterprises | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Report: Breaches of more than one target amplify financial damage by 26 times | A multi-party breach creates 26 times more financial damage than the damage that can be caused by even the worst single-party breach, according to a new report from Mastercard company RiskRecon and Cyentia Institute. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Tech workers warned they were going to quit. Now, the problem is spiralling out of control | New research by training platform TalentLMS and Workable, a provider of recruiting software, suggests that tech and IT workers are even more likely to be planning an exit: in a survey of 1,200 tech and IT workers in the US, nearly three-quarters (72%) said they intended to quit within the next year. | Tech Jobs |
| SiliconANGLE- After fits and starts, Google’s cloud strategy is finally finding its footing | The new strategy can be boiled down to a few essential elements: a commitment to open-source platforms and standards, playing nicely with other cloud providers and making GCP the easiest to use and most secure platform for companies just beginning their cloud journey. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Gartner’s list of top tech initiatives for 2022 | While much of this tech is centered on greater automation and even autonomy in data systems, there are also some outliers in areas like mesh networks and application-level composability. | Tech Trends |
Datanami - DataRobot Research Finds 86% of Organizations Prioritize AI and ML | Investment in AI/ML is continuing to rise, with 86% of survey respondents saying their organizations have increased their yearly AI/ML budget from 2020 to 2021. The same percentage (86) said their organizations prioritize AI/ML above other IT initiatives, with 42% placing AI/ML as their leading IT priority. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - With 900,000 developers, here's where the next big startup ecosystem will be | The analyst predicts that a 30% increase in developer talent in Africa, which has in recent years seen an influx of venture capital funding, will see the region evolve into a software development powerhouse rivalling Asia by 2026. | DevOps |
| Datanami - Global Survey Reveals 8 in 10 Companies Struggle to Unify Data Assets | "Success requires the ability to combine the explosion in real-time data with the business context stored in databases, in a way that enables instantaneous actions. Insights alone are not enough; engagement and revenue growth now comes from transacting in the moment.” | Data & Analytics |
| Forbes - 4 Steps To Re-Architect For Cloud Innovation In Manufacturing | Manufacturers that have spent years tied to enormous on-premises systems may be able to "lift-and-shift" many services to the cloud, but they won’t go any farther unless they’re prepared to fully re-architect everything from application architecture to production operations to the entire development life cycle. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - AI-driven strategies are becoming mainstream, survey finds | While 66% view AI as critical to their success, only 38% believe that their use of AI differentiates them from competitors and only about one-third say that they’ve adopted “leading operational practices” for AI. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Network World - How to right-size edge storage | Gartner estimates that 50% of enterprise data will be generated at the edge by 2023, and PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts the global market for edge data centers will reach $13.5 billion in 2024, up from $4 billion in 2017. | Data Storage |
| Datamation - Key Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trends 2021 | Decision intelligence (DI) is one of the newest artificial intelligence concepts that takes many current business optimizations a step farther, by using AI models to analyze wide-ranging sets of commercial data. These analyses are used to predict future outcomes for everything from products to customers to supply chains. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Former cybersecurity leader says U.S. government can improve cybersecurity for all | The standards the government published in May for security and networking equipment should result in higher quality products for everyone, he said, because the government is such a big customer. | Security |
| Geekwire - Average tech salaries in Seattle rise 4.6% to $158K, second-highest in U.S. | Seattle commands the second-highest average tech salary in the U.S. behind the Bay Area ($165,000), which saw its average decrease 0.3%. Seattle was ahead of New York ($151,000, down 1%), Los Angeles ($149,000, up 2.3%), and Boston ($147,000, up 1%). | Tech Jobs |
| Forbes - The Future Of SIEM: Where Will The Market Be In Five Years? | Every SIEM provider likes to position themselves as the next generation in security information and event management, but are they? Many SIEM providers have their roots in SIM logging tools and have struggled to adopt modern technologies, especially as they relate to cloud services. | Security |
| Network World - Gartner: 8 security trends facing the enterprise | The use of an overarching cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) that will let distributed enterprises deploy and extend security where it’s most needed was also among Gartner’s top technology trends for 2022. | Security |
| sdxcentral - Splunk, Mandiant CEOs Urge Unified Cyber Battlespace View | To help organizations better defend themselves against threats, Mandiant and Splunk also announced a new partnership that combines Mandiant’s threat intelligence, security stack validation, and incident response with Splunk’s data analytics. | Security |
| AiThority - Fuze Named The Only Visionary In The 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant For Unified Communications As A Service | By 2024, 75% of enterprise users will not use a desk-phone, up from 30% in 2020.” Gartner defines unified communications as a service (UCaaS) as a cloud-delivered service that provides many of the same functions as premises-based unified communications (UC) solutions. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Tech jobs: Salaries are flattening, but there's good news for some | Hiring platform Hired analysed more than 525,000 interview requests and 10,000 job offers between January 2019 and June 2021 and found the average US tech salary was $152,000 in 2021, a slight decrease of 1.1% compared to last year. | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - How health care organizations can improve their cybersecurity in 2021 | The top nine breaches alone affected 17 million patients, indicating cybercriminals’ preference for big-game hunting attacks that deliver millions of PHI records at once. One in three of these health care cyberattacks started with an email, and 52% started with an exploit of a network-edge vulnerability. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Hackers are disguising their malicious JavaScript code with a hard-to-beat trick | At the SecTor 2021 conference in November researchers will present a new "technique that profiles the unique functionality of packers to detect JavaScript prior to it being obfuscated, regardless of the original code." | Privacy & Security |
| Techstartups - The Future of Virtual Reality in Business | For instance, VR can be easily used in staff training in various sectors like construction, automobile, and aerospace. In this way, there will be no need to invest millions of dollars to create a dummy training room to train the employees. | Virtual Reality |
| AiThority - Marketing Teams Are Being Held Back By Their Traditional Digital Experience Strategies | Almost a quarter (23%) of UK marketers say their approach to digital marketing and delivering digital experiences is stuck in the past. That’s according to new research from Optimizely, which also found that the majority of marketers (61%) don’t believe their teams are progressive or willing to try new techniques when it comes to digital experiences. | Digital Marketing |
| Network World - Sweet-spot spectrum for enterprise 5G is growing, but slowly | A new auction for enormously valuable mid-band spectrum and a rollback of availability for a different piece of it illustrates the uneven progress of 5G rollouts in the U.S. and represents a challenge for enterprises looking to take advantage of 5G technology. | 5G |
| Venture Beat - Seed-stage cybersecurity companies see investment slowdown, report finds | According to a recent CNBC survey, among small business owners in the U.S., 56% said they weren’t concerned about being the victim of a hack in the next 12 months and 59% were confident that they could quickly resolve any cyberattack. | Security |
| Computerworld - As Google moves to reshape Workspace, barriers to business adoption remain | Adoption by businesses — especially larger enterprises — is growing, but slowly, according to analysts, particularly when it comes to matching the scale of market leader Microsoft and its Office 365 suite. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Enterprises are scrambling to deploy zero trust security | Eighty percent of organizations say they are planning to implement zero trust security in less than 12 months; 83% agree that zero trust is strategically necessary for their ongoing business. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - The hybrid cloud tug-of-war gets real | Depending on which numbers you choose to represent information technology spending, public cloud accounts for less than 5% of the total pie. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Report: Cybercriminals refine tactics to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities | This exploit is ripe for abuse by attackers because they can gain control of a system simply by tricking a victim into previewing a malicious Office document in File Explor | Security |
| sdxcentral - VMware Exec: Open RAN ‘Trend Is Irreversible | A “meeting of the minds” with informal decisions and interoperability work, when it results in an operator like Dish Wireless actually deploying a commercial network, something that hasn’t happened yet, can help advance the standardization process, according to Uppal. | Telecom |
| VentureBeat - What stage of open-source adoption has your company reached? | With 90% of enterprise IT leaders aligned with Microsoft in their adoption of open source, we are now firmly in the final phase of the diffusion of innovation, with only the “laggards” still holding out. | DevOps |
| ZDNet - Tech skills: Four ways you can get the right mix | Research from IDC and Salesforce suggests one in six UK workers have either low or no digital skills. | Training/Certs |
| VentureBeat - The 2021 machine learning, AI, and data landscape | Meanwhile, a lot of the action has been happening behind the scenes on the data and ML infrastructure side, with entirely new categories (data observability, reverse ETL, metrics stores, etc.) appearing or drastically accelerating. | Tech Trends |
| Blocks & Files - Much ado about nothing much: Gartner’s latest primary array MQ | Gartner analysts cite hybrid cloud IT operation models, artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), software-defined storage and as-a-service/subscription consumption models as characteristics of the enterprise primary array market. | Cloud |
| SiliconANGLE- At in-person KubeCon, encouraging signs of cloud-native computing maturity | There are still open questions – many projects are still immature, and there are use cases like edge computing that still have many question marks – but for many enterprises, the cloud-native infrastructure checklist is nearing completion. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Artificial intelligence's data problem meets AI's people problem | "IT professionals are drawing from at least 20 data sources to inform their AI, and some have to draw from hundreds, so this is a big data infrastructure issue." | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - AI Weekly: AI model training costs on the rise, highlighting need for new solutions | “[A] researcher might be impatient to wait three weeks to do a thorough analysis and their organization may not be able or wish to pay for it,” he said. “So for the same task, one could spend $100,000 or $1 million.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Gizmodo - Ransomware Hackers Reportedly Targeted 3 Different U.S. Water Facilities This Year Alone | A joint advisory, published Thursday by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI, the NSA, and the Environmental Protection Agency, reveals three previously unknown incidents involving malware attacks on water systems throughout the countr | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 76% of manufacturers plan to adopt private 5G by 2024 | More than three-fourths (76%) of respondents are planning to adopt private 5G networks by 2024, and list the benefits of increased network security (63%), network performance (49%), and application performance (45%) as a few of the key reasons why. | 5G |
| VentureBeat - Cybersecurity report reveals critical business vulnerabilities | According to data from a new Randori report, titled “The Attack Surface Report,” 1 in 15 organizations are running vulnerable versions of SolarWinds. Some of these versions contain exploits that can provide attackers with unauthenticated remote code execution, granting the hackers access to full control of a system. | Security |
| ZDNet - Critical infrastructure security dubbed 'abysmal' by researchers | On Friday, CloudSEK published a new report exploring ICSs and their security posture in light of recent cyberattacks against industrial, utility, and manufacturing targets. The research focuses on ICSs available through the internet. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Why enterprises are massively subcontracting cybersecurity work | "A surprisingly large percentage — 56% — of organizations are addressing the hiring crunch by subcontracting at least some portion of their cybersecurity teams, most often to managed service providers.” | Security |
| ZDNet - More than 30 countries outline efforts to stop ransomware after White House virtual summit | The countries pledged to make systems more resilient through policy measures, more resources, clear governance structures, well-rehearsed incident response procedures, trained workers, and private sector partnerships. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report: 24% of companies have paid millions in audit fees | Twenty-four percent of companies have paid millions in audit true-up fees over the past three years to companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM, according to a new report from Flexera. | IT Management |
| Virtualization & Cloud Review - Report: DevOps Goes Multi-Cloud to Enjoy 'Unique Benefits' of Multiple Providers | In a survey of some 1,200 professionals around the world, the primary reason for using multiple providers was "Leverage unique benefits of each provider," reported by 26 percent of respondents. | Cloud |
| Computerworld - US IT job growth slows, but 2021 still on track for record hiring | Businesses would have hired even more IT workers — especially developers, cybersecurity staffers, and compliance experts — had they been able to find enough qualified candidates. | Tech Jobs |
| SiliconANGLE- With Ego4D, Facebook wants AI to understand the world from a first-person perspective | For example, AI capable of understanding human perception from a first-person perspective could provide instructions for technicians, guide people for recipes, assist people in locating lost items and so on. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Even computer experts think ending human oversight of AI is a very bad idea | In a consultation that was launched earlier this year, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) invited experts to submit their thoughts on some new proposals designed to reform the UK's data protection regime. | Artificial Intelligence |
| CIO - Proving the value of analytics on the edge | By pushing more analytic capabilities to the edge, where data is collected, organizations can achieve greater responsiveness and efficiency. Here are some examples of how organizations are deploying analytics at the edge for a variety of use cases. | Edge Computing |
| VentureBeat - Cyberattack response time averages 2 days, report finds | Respondents cited a lack of threat prevention specific to never-before-seen malware as one of their top concerns, followed by a shortage of qualified staffers and hidden persistence tactics. | Security |
| AiThority - Cybersecurity Tool Sprawl Drives Plans to Outsource Detection and Response | The global independent research uncovered serious challenges facing SOC teams tasked with detecting and responding to emerging cyber threats. Those defending organizations with more than 10,000 employees have an average of almost 46 monitoring tools in place. | Security |
| ZdNet - Apple: Forcing app sideloading would turn iPhones into virus-prone 'pocket PCs' | On Wednesday, the iPad and iPhone maker published a new paper (.PDF) on sideloading, a process allowed by other mobile OS developers -- such as Google, albeit with some friction -- to install apps on devices outside of official app repositories. | Privacy & Security |
| CSO - 6 ways the pandemic has triggered long-term security changes | In many cases, organizations have deployed technologies to support the new work environment without evaluating potential security implications he says. "Now is a good time for CISOs to measure newly added business software and how the increased risk and exposure impacts the business," Carson says. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Software supply chain breaches are ‘staggeringly high,’ report finds | The research reveals that 97% of firms have been negatively impacted by a supply chain cybersecurity breach, with 93% admitting that they have suffered a direct cybersecurity breach because of weaknesses in their supply chain. | Security |
| Network World - Edge computing: 5 potential pitfalls | Edge computing is gaining steam as an enterprise IT strategy with organizations looking to push storage and analytics closer to where data is gathered, as in IoT networks. But it’s got its challenges. | Edge Computing |
| Identity Theft Resource Center to Share Latest Data Breach Analysis with U.S. Senate Commerce Committee; Number of Data Breaches in 2021 Surpasses all of 2020 | According to the data breach analysis, the number of data breaches publicly-reported in the U.S. decreased nine (9) percent in Q3 2021 (446 breaches) compared to Q2 2021 (491 breaches). However, the number of data breaches through September 30, 2021 has exceeded the total number of events in Full-Year (FY) 2020 by 17 percent (1,291 breaches in 2021 compared to 1,108 breaches in 2020). | Privacy & Security |
| Microsoft Digital Defense 2021 Report | The Microsoft Digital Defense Report covers the period from July 2020 to June 2021, and its findings cover trends across nation-state activity, cybercrime, supply chain security, hybrid work and disinformation. | Security |
| ZDNet - An artificial intelligence ecosystem isn't necessarily all cloud | When it comes to AI initiatives, then, "most firms are picking a hybrid approach. Many like to develop on the cloud, but if they have a lot of data, they put the development on-prem, and when they finish with their model they execute production in the cloud." | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - DeepMind proposes new benchmark to improve robots’ object-stacking abilities | “To support other researchers, we’re open-sourcing a version of our simulated environment, and releasing the designs for building our real-robot RGB-stacking environment, along with the RGB-object models and information for 3D printing them," | Automation & Productivity |
| SiliconANGLE - After fits and starts, Google’s cloud strategy is finally finding its footing | International Data Corp. estimates that Google’s 2020 public cloud market share was 4.6%, placing fourth behind Amazon Web Services Inc. with 43.6%, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure with 14.3% and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud with 7.6% | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Ransomware is the biggest cyber threat to business. But most firms still aren't ready for it | "We have been clear that paying ransoms emboldens these criminal groups – and it also does not guarantee your data will be returned intact, or indeed returned at all," | Security |
| Network World - 4 questions that get the answers you need from IT vendors | What could you, as an enterprise-network technology buyer, do to close the information gap? The answer is to push an RFP-like process into your first contact with providers of those new technologies you’re considering. | Vendor Management |
| VentureBeat - 4 lessons every company should learn from the back-to-back Facebook outages | In assorted ways, these outages should serve as a wake-up call for organizations to look within and make sure they have created the right technical and cultural atmosphere to prevent or mitigate a Facebook-like disaster. | IT Management |
| SiliconANGLE - Why successful customer service is about more than engagement | In fact, new data from Aberdeen Research shows that leaders in customer operations have seen a 20.6% year-over-year increase in annual revenue growth and customer satisfaction rates 7.7 times higher than their competitors. | Automation & Productivity |
| Fintech - DeFi defense and better blockchain security | It's more imperative than ever that secure solutions can be found. Blockchain technology seems to offer the much-lauded light at the end of the tunnel. But even so, it's not unbreakable. | Blockchain Security |
| VentureBeat - The emergence of datacenter-as-a-service | Datacenter-as-service takes that way of thinking all the way up to the datacenter level, providing multiple options so that if one datacenter or computing resource goes down, you can move not just your front end, but your back end applications to another datacenter or computing resource. | IT Management |
| AiThority - Hornetsecurity Releases Results of Global Study on Ransomware Attacks | Although almost all respondents (86.9%) indicated that their senior leadership team is aware of ransomware risks, nearly half reported that preparation and prevention measures are delegated to the company’s IT department | Security |
| VentureBeat - Security.org: 68% of Americans use the same password across accounts | Notably, 85% are now employing two-factor authentication, adding a layer of online security to their passwords. In addition, the use of password generators nearly doubled year-over-year, from 15% to 27%, and password management services or browser vaults increased by 10%. | Privacy & Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Privacy concerns in Europe prompt VMware to launch sovereign cloud initiative | An end result of these actions has been the creation of a new market for the sovereign cloud, a secure, compliant regional cloud that meets data residency and data sovereignty demands | Cloud |
| sdxcentral - Cisco Report: 64% of Workers Say WFH or They Walk | The report included Cisco employee data and surveyed 39,000 CIOs, IT decision makers, and employees from companies in 34 countries. Cisco plans to update the report quarterly. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Polar Signals open-sources Parca to optimize code and cut cloud bills | It packs a bunch of features out of the box, including capabilities for collecting, storing, and making profiles available for query over time — this includes CPU profiling to determine the amount of time a CPU needs to execute a specific piece of code. | DevOps |
| Blocks & Files - Coldago pours cold water on Gartner Distributed Files and Object Storage MQ | But all these products are far from equal when we look at access methods. Do you really compare native NFS access built on object layers and vice-versa? Of course, it can provide some flexibility but users’ experience shows very diverse capabilities and realities. | Data Storage |
| ZDNet - Innovative technology is coming to change Linux in the cloud. It's open for investment now | The campaign allows general investors to plant a flag now, financially backing NanoVMs' potentially groundbreaking technology. Investors can now get in on this server-based operating system that's smaller, runs faster, and is exponentially more secure than today's traditional cloud-based computing. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Absence of household internet sitting at 23% in U.S. | Not having household internet might sound like an obsolete proposition in this day and age, but that’s the case for 27.6 million U.S. households. In percentage terms, that’s a whopping 22.6%. If you round off the numbers, about 1 in 4 households do not have internet access. | EdTech |
| ZDNet - Russia poses the biggest nation-state cyber threat, says Microsoft | "Russian nation-state actors are increasingly targeting government agencies for intelligence gathering, which jumped from 3% of their targets a year ago to 53% -- largely agencies involved in foreign policy, national security or defense," he explained. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Algolia: Only 26% of retailers use AI-optimized search | The State of Search Report reveals the impact of search on a variety of key areas, including conversion rates, user experiences, demand surges, achieving a headless architecture, and more. | Automation & Productivity |
| Threatpost - 4 Key Questions for Zero-Trust Success | As companies seek to implement a zero-trust network access (ZTNA) solution, there are important considerations that need to be made to avoid common pitfalls, in areas such as performance, data loss protection (DLP), advanced threat protection (ATP), visibility and reporting | Security |
| Blocks & Files - Gartner 2021 files and objects MQ gets Purified, Nutanixed and Wekanated | Pure Storage has become a leader in Gartner’s latest Distributed File Systems and Object Storage magic quadrant, and both Nutanix and Weka enter this MQ for the first time. | Data Storage |
| Enterprise Storage Forum - Top 5 In-Demand Enterprise Storage Jobs | Enterprise storage is an ever-evolving field. Organizations are always looking to the future, seeking the latest innovations. Thanks to the huge recent growth in storage, these jobs and skills are in-demand. | Tech Jobs |
| Datanami - IDC Survey: Managed Service Providers Face Numerous Challenges in Managed Cloud Services Market | In the wake of the pandemic, organizations are looking to utilize public cloud capabilities (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), innovative technologies and processes (IoT, edge computing, blockchain), and multicloud management platforms to support future cloud strategies and ensure business resiliency. | Cloud |
| WindowsReport - Security baseline for Windows 11 was just released by Microsoft | You will most likely want to download all the essential data from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit, and you can easily find all you need on Microsoft’s dedicated page. | Security |
| ZDNet - The Data and AI landscape 2021: It a MAD, MAD, MAD world | We all keep reading Snowflake's numbers and hear rumors on when Databricks will finally IPO, but Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Google BigQuery continue to be among the fastest growing services for their respective clouds. | Data & Analytics |
| Computerworld - What’s new in Office 2021? | With Office 2021, real-time co-authoring is finally available in all three desktop clients, as long as the documents you’re collaborating on are stored in Microsoft’s cloud storage service, OneDrive. | Automation & Productivity |
| GCN - Chief data officers making strides in federal agencies | In “CDO Insights: 2021 Survey Results On the Maturation of Data Governance in U.S. Federal Agencies,” recently released by the Data Foundation, 75% of respondents said their role within their organization was “very” or “completely” clear, up from 21% in 2020 | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Zero trust and UES lead Gartner’s 2021 Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security | The top five segments with the highest growth rates are application security testing, access management, endpoint protection platform (enterprise), secure email gateways, and identity governance and administration. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - IT and security professionals find patching complex, cumbersome and time-consuming | That shift, with employees connecting with various devices to access corporate networks, data and services as they work and collaborate from new and different locations, is said to have made patching harder than ever. | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - Atlas VPN: DDoS attacks expected to reach 11M by end of 2021 | Cybercriminals launched a terabyte-class attack aimed at a German internet service provider, deploying a DNS reflection/amplification vector. The attacks had a bandwidth of 1.5Tbps — a 169% increase compared to the most significant attack of H1 2020. | Security |
| ZDNet - What is digital transformation? Everything you need to know about how technology is reshaping business | Digital transformation involves using digital technologies to remake a process to become more efficient or effective. The idea is to use technology not just to replicate an existing service in a digital form, but to use technology to transform that service into something significantly better. | Automation & Productivity |
| The Verge - Tech Survey 2021 | After a year of the pandemic, we asked Americans if their trust in big tech companies has changed — and if the biggest ones should be broken up | Privacy & Security |
| Supply Chain Management Review - Survey: inflated inventories tied to poor data quality and excessive legacy systems | "Two out of three companies are using the same materials management business practices they used five years ago, while less than half are intentionally inflating their inventories to protect against further disruptions." | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - Misconfigured, old Airflow instances leak Slack, AWS credentials | While examining active, older versions of the workflow software, the cybersecurity firm found a number of unprotected instances that exposed credentials for business and financial services including Slack, PayPal, AWS, Stripe, Binance, MySQL, Facebook, and Klarna. | Security |
| The Verge - What is BGP, and how might it have helped kick Facebook off the internet? | Because of BGP’s ability to spread from autonomous system to autonomous system (which, as a reminder, is one of the things that makes it so darn useful), one group making a mistake can cascade. | Apps/DevOps |
| VentureBeat - Cyberattacks are getting worse, but most people aren’t taking basic security steps | Public response and implementation of commonly known best practices — including strong passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and others — are tepid at best, the report found. | Security |
| Network World - 6 data center trends to watch | In this year’s report, 20% of outages were deemed severe or serious by the organizations that reported them. Roughly six in 10 major outages in the 2021 survey cost more than $100,000. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - How to get AI analytics right | Heading the list is the need to develop in-house analytics talent (as in, human talent) capable of managing the data science tasks AI requires. In addition, you’ll need to create hybrid teams with expertise in various domains to replace the often siloed hierarchies that take root in complex organizations | Artificial Intelligence |
| TechBullion - Data Virtualization Market Size: Increase Demand in Banking & Financial Sectors | The market growth is driven by mounting demand for cost-efficient data management solutions from enterprises to manage database generated from organizations on a day-to-day basis. | Data & Analytics |
| PCWorld - Report: Less than half of business PCs can run Windows 11 | According to a survey by Lansweeper of 30 million business PCs across 60,000 companies and organizations, only 44.4 percent of computers were compatible with Windows 11. | Automation & Productivity |
| eWeek - Tech Buyers Choose: Innovative Startup vs. Experienced Large Vendor | CIOs are not going to spend time with a startup that simply rehashes an existing set of ideas. They want to see something new: something VCs say represents ‘a pain pill’ rather than a ‘nice to have’. | Tech Trends |
| AP News -ThreatQuotient Publishes Research Report: State of Cyber Security Automation Adoption in 2021 | Based on survey results from 250 senior cybersecurity professionals at UK companies employing 2,000+ people from a range of industries, the report determined 98% intend to automate more in the next 12 months, but 41% have a lack of trust in automation’s outcomes. | Security |
| ZDNet - Top careers in information technology | This article introduces the top careers in information technology. People considering IT careers can use the list to learn more about the earning potential, job duties, and educational requirements for different IT career paths. | Tech Jobs |
| Forbes - Taking Banking To The Cloud: Five Engineering Priorities | Banking and financial services understand these demands, so it’s no surprise they are increasingly adopting cloud platforms; the global finance cloud market is expected to grow more than 22% annually through 2025. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Facing the new cybersecurity challenges of hybrid work (VB) | But there’s also an enormous risk: No matter the size of your business, these work environments are creating brand new cybersecurity challenges because of a rapidly changing threat surface, cyber security that hasn’t kept up, and a distracted workforce. | Security |
| Forbes - Why You Should Pay Attention To The Rise Of SaaS Platforms | This shift from purely cost reduction-focused efforts to using technology to increase revenues means the first era of software as a service (SaaS) is ending | Digital Transformation |
| CIODive - Tech leaders plan large AI investment, but adoption woes remain | Despite provider enthusiasm, adoption challenges persist, and are partly driven by the immaturity of the technology. Forty-one percent of respondents said emerging AI applications were either still in development or in the early adoption stages. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Ignoring data comes at a price, report finds | The report highlights that 97% of data leaders say their companies have suffered the consequences of ignoring data, either missing out on new revenue opportunities, poorly forecasting performance, or making bad investments. | Data & Analytics |
| Network World - Gartner: SD-WAN, SASE biggest drivers of WAN edge infrastructure | As the world shifts from working from home to working from anywhere, companies have begun to shift away from the VPN as the main tool for keeping remote workers secure, and towards more-fully featured SD-WAN technologies, with the idea of eventually implementing zero-trust network access for maximal security, Gartner’s report noted. | Network Management |
| AiThority - CSC Finds Majority of World’s Largest Companies Susceptible to Phishing and Brand Abuse Due to Improper Domain Security | “Basic domain security measures continue to get overlooked because they’re still not considered an essential component to a company’s broader phishing, business email compromise, or ransomware mitigation approach” | Security |
| Network World - The search for the optimum network: Don’t let IT vendors sell you on lock-in | The total cost of integration and support for multi-vendor networks will exceed the cost of the hardware. These are also enterprise views, and again from both sides of the debate. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - Enterprise mobile adoption is up, but it isn’t without issues | While more than 61% of U.S. enterprises invested in mobile technology or mobile security in the last year, 73% experienced integration issues. Specifically, they admit their technology needs to have improved data analytics, troubleshooting, and issue resolution, among other challenges. | IoT/Mobility |
| Medgadget - Global Healthcare Cloud Computing Market Size To Reach USD 68.4 billion by 2026 | One of the significant factors hampering the growth rate of the global healthcare cloud computing market is data security and protection concerns. A big issue with cloud agreements is that the information provided by merchants isn’t nearly as safe as information kept on-premise. | Cloud |
| Forbes - The 5 Biggest Technology Trends In 2022 | AI has permeated the tools we use to carry out everyday work – from the ubiquitous voice assistants to language translation and tools that allow us to extract structured data from pictures, whiteboard scribblings, and hand-written notes | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Digital transformation spending is up to $700B per year, but results lag | Transformation requires vision, roadmaps, complex change management, process development, best practices, training, trial and error, and enormous amounts of time and energy. | Digital Transformation |
| Forbes - The 8 Latest Malicious Email Threats And Trends That Can Create A Business Crisis | The company said the report was the first-of-its-kind to identify trends among malicious email threats and attacks, the most impersonated brands, and the most popular times for hacking attempts. | Security |
| AiThority - From VoIP to CPaaS – Shifts in the Cloud Communications Market and Future Outlooks | The founding technology of the entire cloud communications sector is VoIP – Voice over Internet Protocol. As its name suggests, this allows users to make calls via the web. | Cloud |
| TechBullion - Threat Intelligence Market Size to Reach USD 20.28 Billion in 2028 | North America is expected to account for a significant revenue share in the market, which can be attributed to rising incidence of cyber threats, data breaches, and robust presence of major IT and telecom, and BFSI companies in the region. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Predictive transactions are the next big tech revolution | Companies that are being built today need to follow ByteDance’s example and invest and build the key technologies that will move us towards the Predictive Transaction Processing model. | Emerging Tech |
| ZDNet - Cloud sticker shock: all too common, but somewhat avoidable | A recent survey of 350 IT decision makers by Virtana blames disjointed point tools, silos, lack of visibility, unexpected costs, lack of programmatic optimization. | Cloud |
| SiliconANGLE - CIOs signal hybrid work will power tech spending through 2022 | Cybersecurity and cloud remain the top two priorities ,with data initiatives overtaking collaboration and productivity on the priority list – although all three of these areas remain strong, as does robotic process automation. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - The future of software is usage-based pricing | Forward-thinking software companies will continue to embrace this model as true vendor partners. Those that don’t evolve risk seeing an erosion not just of their top-line growth, but in customer trust and loyalty as well. | IT Trends |
| Forbes - The 7 Biggest Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trends In 2022 | We have recently seen the release of GPT-3 by OpenAI, the most advanced (and largest) language model ever created, consisting of around 175 billion “parameters”- variables and datapoints that machines can use to process language. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - What does a chief data officer do? Businesses can't make up their minds | However, according to research by database company Exasol, there is a lack of alignment over what the role of the CDO should be, with 50% of CDOs believing that organizations' expectations of the role are misinformed. | Data & Analytics |
| AP News -From VoIP to CPaaS - Shifts in the Cloud Communications Market and Future Outlooks | An Analysis By Nextiva | However, the cloud communications sector is hard to define exactly. There are several interrelated concepts, technologies, and products - each with different projected opportunities, challenges, and growth characteristics. | Cloud |
| Health IT Anaytics - How Does Artificial Intelligence Compare to Augmented Intelligence? | As providers strive to improve patient outcomes, the use of machine learning has become more integrated into the healthcare system. As this new form of technology continues to expand, it’s important to understand how it can be used and how it differs from augmented intelligence. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Datanami - IDC’s 3rd Platform Industry Spending Guides Provide In-Depth Sub-Industry Forecasts for Technology Investments Across Nine Industries | The financial services sector, which includes the banking, securities and investment services, and insurance industries, relies more heavily on cloud, mobility, and big data and analytics, for example. But the Internet of Things (IoT) is the primary investment focus in the other six industries, especially manufacturing, oil and gas, and utilities.” | Tech Trends |
| BeinCrypto - Over 80% of Top-100 Public Companies Now Using Blockchain Technology | While interest and adoption by these corporations started as early as 2014, as of September 2021, 81 of the top 100 public companies are using blockchain technology. T | Blockchain |
| Traders Magazine - Cloud Becoming Ubiquitous for Market Data Delivery | At the same time, exchanges, market data providers, aggregators, and trading systems are embracing the cloud as a delivery model by offering access to data directly via their own cloud services, APIs or partners. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - CISA releases advisory on Conti ransomware, notes increase in attacks after more than 400 incidents | CISA noted that while Conti operates a ransomware-as-a-service model, they do so a bit differently than others. Instead of paying affiliates a cut of the earnings that come from ransoms, the group pays the deployers of the ransomware a wage, according to CISA. | Security |
| IoT News - Global industry accelerating IoT adoption in response to Covid-19, New Inmarsat research reveals | More than three quarters (77 per cent) of the organisations surveyed have now fully deployed at least one IoT project, with 41 per cent having achieved this in the twelve-month period from the second quarter of 2020. | IoT/Mobility |
| Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) Market worth $11,519 million by 2026 - Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets™ | Increasing demand for BaaS due to COVID-19 outbreak, growing need for supply chain transparency across verticals, and rising demand for enhanced security are major growth factors for the market | Blockchain |
| 69News - Master Data Management Market to Witness magnificent Growth, Revenue to Surge to USD 704.7 Million By 2028 - Zion Market Research | The IoT technology provides a broad range of advantages to organizations in the industries of big data analytics, cloud computing, and global networks, thereby powering the master data management market. | Data Management |
| Cointelegraph - 10% of early-stage startups working on blockchain: GSER 2021 | Unsurprisingly, blockchain technology is in the first group, where the average growth rate is 107%, along with agriculture technology (agtech) and new food, advanced manufacturing and robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, and fintech. | Blockchain |
| yahoo - Cloud Migration Plans Surge Despite Security Concerns | The need to remain competitive and cater to increased user demands has prompted a 15% jump to 37% of companies saying they plan to move business-critical applications to the cloud in 2020-21, compared to the previous year. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Users increasingly willing to abandon digital platforms that demand personal info, stringent passwords and time-consuming forms: study | More than half of respondents have outright abandoned an online service if they found logging in too frustrating and 63% said they were likely to jump ship for a competitor if they made it easier to authenticate their identity. | Privacy & Security |
| Forbes - How Cloud Is Changing The Technology Workforce | And we’ve learned that capable, tech-savvy business users can easily configure and support many cloud-based systems — from ERP to CRM to accounting and finance — with minimal technical assistance. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Technology skills in demand, 2021: cloud, with a twist of open source | "For those looking for the best career paths, cloud-native computing, DevOps, Linux, and security hold the most promising opportunities, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - Open source services market on course to become $50B industry | Notable players in the open source services space include Red Hat, which IBM acquired for $34 billion in 2018; Cisco; Oracle; Suse; and Databricks. | Open Source |
| ZDNet - Multi-party breaches cause 26-times the financial damage of the worst single-party breach: Report | "Many companies are, at some point, both the generator of one ripple event and the downstream recipient of others generated by different organizations. This is a testament to the tight technical ties that bind suppliers, customers, and partners in today's digitally dominated business environment," the report explained. | Privacy & Security |
| SiliconANGLE - IT leaders: Here’s how you should navigate the growing cloud market | Cloud is the backbone of some of the most common digital technologies – edge, 5G, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation and the “internet of things,” among others. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - 5G for the enterprise: A status check | First, we must reset on what we can truly expect from the technology, where it is on the adoption curve today – including what might be holding it back – and the critical steps for businesses to capture the potential of 5G, something that has been hyped up for some time. | 5G |
| Network World - Cisco forecasts a bright future for network, app, hybrid work technologies | Cisco targets agile networks, optimized applications, hybrid work, the Internet of the future, end-to-end security and edge networking growth | Network Management |
| sdxcentral - Op-Ed: Your Home Is the Next Security Battleground | In my opinion, a software agent running on a laptop or phone just makes more sense for the “branch of one” as the vendors have taken to calling remote workers. If you happened to have a couple employees living together, maybe an appliance starts to make more sense, but I suspect that’s a pretty small market | Security |
| VentureBeat - Improved algorithms may be more important for AI performance than faster hardware | The new MIT study adds to a growing body of evidence that the size of algorithms matters less than their architectural complexity. For example, earlier this month, a team of Google researchers published a study claiming that a model much smaller than GPT-3 — fine-tuned language net (FLAN) — bests GPT-3 by a large margin on a number of challenging benchmarks. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - IT leaders: Here’s how you should navigate the growing cloud market | Cloud is the backbone of some of the most common digital technologies – edge, 5G, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation and the “internet of things,” among others. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - The great resignation: Boomers and Gen X stay put, while millennials and Gen Z walk away | 90% said when searching for a new job, it’s very important a company offers a strong training and upskilling program. This was even higher for tech-specific respondents (97%). | Tech Jobs |
| ZDNet - Artificial intelligence success is tied to ability to augment, not just automate | "All stakeholders need to be involved in the design of AI assistants to produce a human-AI team that outperforms either alone. Human users must understand the AI system and its limitations to trust and use it appropriately, and AI system designers must understand the context in which the system will be used." | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) as the Gateway to AI Success | Enterprises are looking to AI for help with managing massive workplace disruption, including intelligent document processing (IDP) and customer service agent augmentation technologies. | Artificial Intelligence |
| McKinsey & Company - Fast forward: How cloud computing could transform risk management | Cloud-based computing will provide tangible benefits for banking risk management functions, but risk leaders face significant challenges migrating their systems and activities from on-premises to the cloud. | Cloud |
| Forbes - Critical Infrastructure Providers Need To Shape Up And Focus On Cybersecurity | Not making zero trust a priority is one of the biggest mistakes companies make. Eager to deploy IT fast, they take shortcuts, leaving security rules up in the air with the intention of locking them down later | Security |
| yahoo - Global Cloud Block Storage Market 2021-2027: By Storage Type, Deployment Mode, Organization Size and Vertical - ResearchAndMarkets.com | The Cloud Block Storage Market by storage type is segmented into locally-attached and network-attached. The scope of the report covers deployment mode which includes public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. | Data Storage |
| SiliconANGLE - IBM report finds two-thirds of cloud breaches traced to misconfigured APIs | The data sets are based on dark web analysis, IBM Security X-Force Red penetration testing data, IBM Security Services metrics, X-Force Incident REsponse analysis and X-Force Threat Intelligence research. | Security |
| PYMNTS.com - Deep Dive: How AI- and ML-Powered Analysis Can Improve Fraud Detection and Investigation | Nearly three-quarters of compliance professionals in a survey reported filing more suspicious activity reports related to financial crimes in 2020 than in 2019, and 69% said better fraud detection would have the most impact on reducing losses. More than half also cited cybersecurity as their No. 1 vulnerability. | Security |
| Google and Microsoft had the most vulnerabilities in the first half of 2021 | Vulnerabilities with lower scores are either not dangerous or hardly exploitable. However, abusing flaws in Google or Microsoft products allow cybercriminals to probe millions of systems. | Security |
| The Verge - A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality | AR is going to take a while, because there are some really hard technology challenges there. But it will happen, it will happen in a big way, and we will wonder when it does, how we ever lived without it. Like we wonder how we lived without our phone today. | AR |
| Intelligent CIO - Survey reveals Zero Trust adoption appealing but challenging | The survey was designed to assess the market’s perception of the Zero Trust security framework, explore organizations’ plans for adoption and implementation and identify key issues that are inhibiting their moves to Zero Trust. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Next-gen software supply chain attacks up 650% in 2021 | Over the past year, Sonatype studied data from 100,000 production applications and 4 million component migrations made by software developers, alongside “operational supply, demand, and security” trends related to the Java, JavaScript, Python, and .Net ecosystems | Security |
| MarketWatch - Emotional AI and other ‘moonshot’ technologies could grow to $6 trillion market by 2030, says Bank of America | "They say a paradigm shift in the explosion of data, faster processing power and the rise of artificial intelligence will bring about the “fastest rollout of disruptive tech in history.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Brand abuse attacks dominate list of fraud trends: report | "Bad actors impersonate credible brands this way to harvest consumer log-in credentials or personal data. As brands continue to accelerate their own digital transformation and as consumer data becomes more valuable, we predict brand abuse attacks will continue to increase," | Security |
| Forbes - Five Trends In Technology Changing The Shape Of Security | This article will outline some of today’s most impactful technology trends and what security teams need to know about how to mitigate the new threats introduced by these changes. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Automation adoption is up, but challenges persist | Countering assertions that automation is more trend-following than strategic, 91% of respondents told Emergn that automation technologies have affected their business positively. | Automation & Productivity |
| Datanami - Imperva Research Labs Finds 46% of On-Prem Databases Globally Contain Vulnerabilities | A five-year longitudinal study conducted by Imperva Research Labs comprising nearly 27,000 scanned databases discovered that the average database contains 26 existing vulnerabilities.1 | Security |
| VentureBeat - IBM finds cloud credentials sell for mere dollars in ‘booming’ dark web market | The 2021 X-Force Cloud Security Threat Landscape Report, published today, found that two out of three breaches of cloud environments studied were caused by improperly configured APIs. The team also observed virtual machines with default security settings that were erroneously exposed to the internet, including misconfigured platforms and insufficiently enforced network controls. | Security |
| ZDNet - Quantum computing is at an early stage. But investors are already getting excited | According to market data analyst Pitchbook, this year has already seen $1.02 billion worth of private money funneled into the quantum computing industry – more than the three previous years combined, even with still another few months to go in 2021. | Quantum Computing |
| AiThority - Kaspersky Finds Patch Management Combined With Robust Password Policies Reduces The Risk Of Cyberattacks To Businesses By Up To 60% | Analysis of anonymized data from incident response (IR) cases1 shows that brute force is the most widely used initial vector to penetrate a company’s network. Compared to the previous year, the share of brute force attacks has jumped from 13% to 31.6%, likely due to the pandemic and the boom of remote working. | Security |
| ZDNet - Close to half of on-prem databases contain vulnerabilities, with many critical flaws | On average, each database contained 26 security flaws, with 56% ranked as a "high" or "critical" severity bug -- including code execution vulnerabilities that can be used to hijack an entire database and the information contained within. | Security |
| CSO - 8 top cloud security certifications | It's no surprise that hiring managers are looking for candidates who can demonstrate their cloud security know-how—and a number of companies and organizations have come up with certifications to help candidates set themselves apart | Tech Jobs |
| ZDNet - Bot attacks grow 41% in first half of 2021: LexisNexis | The biannual report found that the financial services industry and media businesses are facing the brunt of bot attacks while human-initiated attacks fell by 29%. Financial services companies saw 683 million bot attacks from January to June while media companies dealt with 351 million, up 174% year over year, according to the report. | Security |
| AiThority - BYOD And Enterprise Mobility Market Microsoft & Blackberry Partner Up To Empower Mobile Workforce | The rising demand for BYOD solutions among a wide range of sectors, such as transportation, retail, BFSI, healthcare, and IT & telecommunications is anticipated to be a major factor that would boost the BYOD and enterprise mobility market growth in the coming years. | Automation & Productivity |
| Network World - Gartner: IT skills shortage hobbles cloud, edge, automation growth | In its "2021-2023 Emerging Technology Roadmap" based on surveying 437 global firms, Gartner found that IT executives see the talent shortage as the most significant barrier to deploying emerging technologies, including compute infrastructure and platform services, network security, digital workplace, IT automation, and storage. | IT Management |
| ZDNet - The state of ransomware: national emergencies and million-dollar blackmail | uring the first six months of 2021, 7.3 million ransomware-related events were detected, the majority of which were WannaCry and Locky variants. | Security |
| Datanami - New Swim Survey Shows How Enterprises Can Use Event-Driven Data, Applications and Analytics | The survey, conducted in partnership with Virtual Intelligence Briefing (ViB) found that almost half (48%) of the participants continuously generate insights from streaming data in-stream without storing the data first, and that improving the customer experience is the number one business outcome their organizations expect from that approach. | Data & Analytics |
| Computerworld - Adopting IT-as-a-service to drive better business outcomes | The IDG survey found that high upfront costs, limited control over the infrastructure and complexity in managing infrastructure are the top three concerns. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Zero-trust security could reduce cyber trust gap | While most security and data privacy leaders (62%) said their organizations should be doing more to strengthen existing data protection measures, one in three (33%) say customers should be concerned about how their company uses their data. | Data & Analytics |
| sdxcentral - How to Avoid Paying Ransoms | As ransomware attacks skyrocket, experts argue the best way avoid paying ransoms is to adopt a zero-trust architecture, embrace a zero-tolerance attitude, back up important data, and rehearse recovery procedures regularly. | Security |
| ZDNet - The shortage of tech workers is about to become an even bigger problem for everyone | The issue is particularly prevalent when it comes to adopting IT automation technologies: in 75% of cases, leaders cited talent availability as the main risk factor. | Tech Jobs |
| Enterprise Storage Forum -Best Machine Learning Tools for Automated Insights 2021 | Today, several machine learning tools offer users automated insights. These tools overlap three broad software categories, business intelligence, predictive analytics, and insight engines. | Data & Analytics |
| Solutions Review - The Best Robotic Process Automation Companies to Consider for 2021 and Beyond | To make your search a little easier, we’ve profiled the best robotic process automation companies all in one place. We’ve also included platform and product line names and introductory software tutorials straight from the source so you can see each solution in action. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Computer vision and deep learning provide new ways to detect cyber threats | The combination of binary visualization and machine learning is a powerful technique that can provide new solutions to old problems. It is showing promise in cybersecurity, but it could also be applied to other domains. | Security |
| The Verge - Go read this report about the horrifying leaks coming from school ransomware attacks | According to NBC’s report, one school district had an Excel sheet called “Basic student information” posted to the dark web after it refused to pay a ransom, according to the FBI’s instructions. | Privacy & Security |
| Enterprise Storage Forum - Best Data Storage Solutions and Software 2021 | Data storage solutions have changed markedly of late. Whether it’s the cloud, object storage, or software-defined storage, the many permutations of storage make for a complex picture. | Data Storage |
| PYMNTS.com - Healthcare 71% of Healthcare Execs to Invest in AI Over the Next Three Years | The majority of health insurers’ fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) investigations take place after claims are paid, not before — and consumer payments can be a particular point of vulnerability. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Only 8% of orgs with web apps for file uploads have adequate cybersecurity | A concerning 32% of organizations do not scan all file uploads to detect malicious files, and an overwhelming majority do not sanitize file uploads with Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) to prevent unknown malware and zero-day attacks. | Security |
| eWEEK - The New Focus on CloudOps: How Enterprise Cloud Migration Can Succeed | Statistics vary, but most enterprises have migrated between 20-40 percent of their systems to the cloud or created net-new systems in the cloud to handle 20-40 percent of their workloads. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - AI Weekly: U.S. agencies are increasing their AI investments | Bloomberg Government projected that the U.S. would pour over $6 billion in AI-related R&D projects in 2021 — it’s a sign of renewed enthusiasm from the government in backing technologies that could yield $13 trillion in economic benefits by 2030. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - How AI and 5G will power the next wave of innovation | Unlike previous wireless tech generations, 5G was born in the cloud era and designed specifically for IoT. 5G can connect billions of sensors—such as video cameras—to edge data centers for AI processing. | Emerging Tech |
| VentureBeat - AI drives data analytics surge, study finds | “Trends in Data, AI and Analytics, 2021” surveyed a wide range of enterprise IT shops and found that many were increasing their investment in collecting data and generating better analysis. As a result, AI analytics is bringing new life to data analytics tooling. | Data & Analytics |
| sdxcentral - Michael Dell: Curbing Ransomware Requires Layered Defense | “And we know the industry as a whole is making some positive gains,” Dell added, noting a Sophos ransomware report that found 39% of cybersecurity incidents were stopped before data could be encrypted, up from 24% last year. | Security |
| Manila Bulletin - Phishing attacks on employees increased during the pandemic in 70% of organizations, new Sophos research shows | IT professionals can’t agree on a single definition of phishing. The most common understanding of phishing, selected by 57% of respondents, is “emails that falsely claim to be from a legitimate organization, usually combined with a threat or request for information | Security |
| Redmond - Microsoft Outlines Remote Work Trends, Delays HQ Reopening | It had 160,000 employees working from home and also "remotely onboarded 25,000 new employees" while maintaining a feeling of inclusion among employees. The latest Work Trends Index report found feelings of employee inclusion were rated at "an all-time high of 90%." | Automation & Productivity |
| AiThority - New Pillsbury Report Explores the Benefits and Risks of AI in Cybersecurity | the 22-page report uses extensive research and expert interviews to examine how AI can help strengthen cybersecurity, how the growing need for data to train AI systems is intensifying concerns around privacy, and how companies can anticipate risk. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Data management puts enterprises to the test | According to Dell, 58% of businesses investing — or planning to invest — in software-as-a-service apps are struggling to find data protection for them. | Data Management |
| ZDNet - IT leaders facing backlash from remote workers over cybersecurity measures: HP study | Nearly half of all office workers under the age of 24 said cybersecurity tools were "a hindrance" and 31% admitted to outright bypassing certain corporate security policies to get work done. | Security |
| AiThority - Nature Scientific Reports Publishes Novel AI Technique That Can Automatically Detect Poor-Quality Medical Data and Improve Healthcare AI and Data Privacy | In all cases the algorithm was able to effectively detect which individual data had errors or quality issues. When the poor-quality data was removed, the ‘clean’ data allowed the development of AI with greater accuracy and scalability, which are critical for commercial AI applications. | Artificial Intelligence |
| eWEEK - What New Data Privacy Legislation Means for SaaS Users | While data privacy is top of mind because of the regulatory landscape, protecting data is not just about complying with a particular law or rule; it is about maintaining security and engendering trust. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - 43% of consumers say websites aren’t easy to navigate, but product teams say otherwise | For example, only 24% of product teams say they have full insight into the user journeys on their site. Even worse, only 16% of respondents say they know why most (>75%) customers drop off their site. | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - 91% of IT teams have felt 'forced' to trade security for business operations | 76% of respondents said that security had taken a backseat, and furthermore, 83% believe that working from home has created a "ticking time bomb" for corporate security incidents. | Security |
| ZDNet - Best cross-platform data migration tool 2021 | This category has a ton of software products. FTP software, for example, has been around for decades. Our approach was to look for products that worked (or had versions for) multiple platforms, as well as a deep feature set and a solid interface | Data & Analytics |
| yahoo - USD 2.70 billion growth in External Hard Disk Market | COVID-19 Impact Analysis| Technavio | The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, the latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment. | Data Storage |
| sdxcentral -EDR Reaches Wide Adoption Paving Way for XDR, SASE | “The biggest changes that we’ve seen are endpoint security technologies moving further along in the Hype Cycle,” Gartner VP Chris Silva said. Endpoint security antivirus software gave way to endpoint security tools (ETP), and now the technology shifted to EDR, which is a direct response to human-operated ransomware and fileless malware that currently threaten organizations, | Security |
| fedscoop - How federal agencies are shifting IT investment strategies | According to respondents in the survey, 75% agree that establishing a hybrid IT environment — both on-prem and in the cloud — offers the best ROI over the next three to five years. | IT Management |
| Yahoo - Cloud Security Solutions Market in System Software Industry | Technavio Predicts over $ 9.57 bn Growth during 2021-2025 | The report extensively covers market segmentation by end-user (BFSI, healthcare, retail, government, and others), component (cloud IAM, cloud e-mail security, cloud DLP, cloud IDS/IPS, and cloud SIEM), and geography (North America, Europe, APAC, MEA, and South America). | Security |
| The Verge - Automated hiring software is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable job candidates | The exact mechanics of how automated software mistakenly reject candidates are varied, but generally stem from the use of overly-simplistic criteria to divide “good” and “bad” applicants. | Tech Jobs |
| The Manomet Current - Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Market is Projected to Reach USD 4,720.96 Million by 2027 | One of the biggest challenges healthcare and pharmaceutical companies are facing right now is the management of patient data, along with vaccine & medicine management. | Blockchain |
| VentureBeat - AI focus shifts to ‘small and wide’ data | Organizations are focusing on implementation, risk management, and ethics as they look to scale AI initiatives | Artificial Intelligence |
| Computerworld - US IT job growth jumps in August; 2021 on track for record hiring levels | Finding web developers and cybersecurity and compliance pros remains the toughest task for CIOs, he said — and is causing HR to focus more on IT staff retention. | Tech Jobs |
| AiThority - IAS Study Shows Ad Context Increases Memorability Up to 40% | “As our industry prepares for a cookieless future and increasingly moves away from audience targeting, advertisers have a significant opportunity to be intentional with contextual targeting tools, such as IAS Context Control, to drive greater campaign outcomes.” | Marketing Tech |
| VentureBeat - Open source can boost EU economy and digital autonomy, study finds | Countless open source platforms have gone to market with that exact promise to would-be enterprise customers — more flexibility to deploy software as they see fit while keeping all their data in-house by hosting on their own infrastructure. | Data & Analytics |
| Yahoo - Insights on the Machine Learning Global Market to 2029 - by Application/Vertical, Deployment Mode, Organization Size, Services and Geography | The global machine learning market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 43.3% during the forecast period (2021-2029). The major drivers for machine learning market are proliferation in data generation, technological advancements in machine learning, increasing adoption of connected devices and increased adoption in data driven application. | Machine Learning |
| ZDNet - The CIO's next priority: Using the tech budget for growth | The analyst says global IT spending will total $4.2 trillion in 2021, an increase of 8.6% from 2020. Digital business projects with a short time-to-value will get the most money and board-level attention. | IT Management |
| Network World - How to buy hyperconverged infrastructure: What to ask before investing in HCI | The appliance vendor assumes responsibility for making sure all software and firmware updates and patches have been tested and certified in advance of deployment, easing the burden of your staff having to track and test across multiple vendors. Downsides of this approach can include vendor lock-in and difficulty integrating existing data-center components. | IT Management |
| ZDNet - MLOps is the art and science of bringing machine learning to production, and it means many things to many people. The State of MLOps is an effort to define and monitor this market | "MLOps can practically mean everything related to that space around that small box of machine learning. You could start with data and engineering. Data science analysis, DevOps infrastructure systems, experiment management." | Machine Learning |
| AiThority - Device42 Global Survey Reveals Visibility and Cloud Migration Are Top IT Concerns in 2021 | According to the survey, IT leaders are concerned about visibility, cloud migration, increasing product lead times, and the need for automation to ensure consistent, accurate configurations on all devices. | IT Management |
| AiThority - New Report Confirms Employees Want Intelligent Automation | Lack of automation was revealed as companies’ biggest downfall, as 67% of respondents said they were frustrated with the amount of repetitive manual tasks in their jobs. | Automation & Productivity |
| ComputerWorld - IDC: Collaboration software spending looks strong, even as offices move to re-open | The five largest collaboration software vendors by revenue – Microsoft, Google, Zoom, Cisco and Slack – accounted for 64.2% of the market, up 4% from the previous year | Automation & Productivity |
| Yahoo - Cloud Computing Market Size Worth $1251.09 Billion By 2028 | CAGR 19.1%: Grand View Research, Inc. | Increasing adoption of 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to further support the growth of the market for cloud computing. | Cloud |
| Threatpost - Top 3 API Vulnerabilities: Why Apps are Pwned by Cyberattackers | While APIs have similar characteristics to web applications, they are far more susceptible to attacks; they include the entire transaction, including any security checks, and are typically communicating directly to a back-end service. | Security |
| ZDNet - Cloud computing, security or more developers? Here's where the tech budget is being spent next | "CIOs are looking for partners who can think past the digital sprints of 2020 and be more intentional in their digital transformation efforts in 2021. This means building technologies and services that don't yet exist, and further differentiating their organization in an already crowded market." | IT Management |
| Private 5G: Tips on how to implement it, from enterprises that already have | Enterprise planners aren't writing standards, they're trying to lay out how to buy products. When you can't map what you see in an architecture to anything that you can buy it makes you a bit uneasy | 5G |
| ZDNet - Report finds skills gap in cloud, security, storage IT intensified by pandemic | In its "State of Upskilling Report," Pluralsight found that since early 2020, remote employees reported that skills involving cloud computing, cybersecurity, and data storage were most lacking in their daily routines | Tech Jobs |
| SiliconANGLE - Mendix: Low-code adoption is surging as enterprises embrace it | Based on a survey of 2,205 individuals, including information technology professionals and software developers in six countries, the report found that 77% of enterprises have already adopted low-code and 72% of IT leaders said it’s a trend they can’t afford to miss | DevOps |
| ZDNet - Initial Access Broker use, stolen account sales spike in cloud service cyberattacks | On Tuesday, Lacework published its 2021 Cloud Threat Report vol.2, outlining how today's cybercriminals are attempting to cut out some of the legwork involved in campaigns against cloud service providers. | Security |
| Datamation - Cloud Migration Trends 2021 | Some enterprises have realized that not everything should live on the public cloud. As a result, they are migrating data – at least some of it – back in house. | Cloud |
| Yahoo - New Research Reveals Current Truths About the State of DevOps for Hybrid Cloud | The report reveals that while key DevOps processes and tools, such as continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) have made significant strides in broad adoption, opportunities for marked improvement still exist | DevOps |
| VentureBeat - 2021 Digital Customer Experience Report: Data and insights from 400+ executives | Customer journey mapping isn’t a one-and-done process, but rather a continuous cycle. Forward-thinking organizations understand this and invest accordingly in analytics and other DCX capabilities. | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - Best Scanners of 2021: Fujitsu, Canon, Kodak, Epson, and more | In this article, we'll look at photo, mobile, and document scanning. | Automation & Productivity |
| OpenPR - Blockchain Technology Market May Set New Growth Story: Microsoft, IBM, Deloitte | Although the Blockchain market is expected to have a positive growth globally, still, there is lack of awareness, regulation problem, ideology clash hinders the adoption of the technology. | Blockchain |
| sdxcentral - Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, VMware Among ZTNA Leaders, Forrester Says | Zscaler has the largest ZTNA market presence, according to Forrester, and it is also the only vendor that doesn’t have any “needs improvement” areas on its scorecard. However, it does say Zscaler must add support for server-initiated applications like VoIP. | Security |
| Yahoo - Global Industry Analysts Predicts the World Blockchain In Insurance Market to Reach $8.5 Billion by 2026 | The report presents fresh perspectives on opportunities and challenges in a significantly transformed post COVID-19 marketplace. | Blockchain |
| VentureBeat - Deepfakes in cyberattacks aren’t coming. They’re already here. | This synthetic content includes deepfakes, audio or video that is either wholly created or altered by artificial intelligence or machine learning to convincingly misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said. | Security |
| AiThority - Sophos Breaking News Novel Ransomware Leverages ProxyShell Vulnerabilities | Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published new research, “LockFile Ransomware’s Box of Tricks: Intermittent Encryption and Evasion,” that reveals how the operators behind LockFile ransomware encrypt alternate bundles of 16 bytes in a document to evade detection. | Security |
| VentureBeat - We underestimated IoT security. Let’s not make that mistake with robotics. | Robots are already complex enough. They’re built by mechanics and electronics engineers, and these arcane security technologies aren’t in their wheelhouse. | Security |
| Statescoop - Cyber and digital services to remain top issues, NASCIO president says | He said that in his state, many towns and counties are taking advantage of the free registrations on .gov, which includes security features like active vulnerability monitoring and two-factor authentication. | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - Forrester: Why APIs need zero-trust security | The RapidAPI survey indicates 89% of telecommunications executives, 75% of health care executives, and 62% of financial service executives prioritize competing in an API economy today. | Apps/DevOps |
| SiliconANGLE - Hot hand: Tech earnings signal a continued booming market | We talked about Snowflake already – but we’ll emphasize they’ve held that roughly 80% Net Score for 10-plus quarterly surveys now. And they’ve continued to move steadily to the right and expanded market presence. | Cloud |
| ComputerWorld - 13 easy ways to cut back on data use in Android | These days, mobile data is money — and if you don't optimize your phone to handle it intelligently, you're throwing dollars down the drain. | Data & Analytics |
| Network World - What is firewall as a service? | From an opex point of view, FWaaS can be pricey, and it doesn’t get cheaper over time like a group of physical firewalls would. For another, there’s the issue of small transmission delays as the traffic gets filtered through the FWaaS. | Security |
| AIThority - Is AI-Based Vulnerability Management Really that Efficient? | Legacy solutions don’t prioritize the vulnerabilities, leaving security teams to handle multiple vulnerabilities lists without context. It falls into the hands of the security professionals to determine the severity of the vulnerabilities. | Artificial Intelligence |
| eWeek - Four Key Steps to Simplify Enterprise AI Success | Some of the most common challenges are hitting snags that delay projects from getting started, not having the right AI infrastructure and tools, workflow bottlenecks that stifle data scientist productivity, and failing to control costs. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Threatpost - Experts: WH Cybersecurity Summit Should Be Followed by Regulation, Enforcement | "Organizations ought to start thinking of information protection before profits. Assuming that data or information loss as a cost of doing business is probably the biggest block to achieving security goals.” | Security |
| VentureBeat - 56% say unstructured data cloud migration is their top priority | Among the key findings is that companies are dealing with sky-high data growth and a related growth in spending. 63% of companies are already managing over 1PB of data with 30%+ IT budgets spent on data storage and backups — and most organizations expect these costs to go up in 2021 | Cloud |
| AIThority - Strategy Analytics: Pandemic Drives US Enterprise Spending on Telecoms, Cloud Computing and DaaS (Device-as-a-Service) | One in three US businesses will increase Telecom spending/budget between 1-5% in the next 2 years. One in five ITDMs (IT Decision Makers) expect IT spending will increase by more than 10% in the next 2 years. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - 40% of SaaS data access is unmanaged and publicly exposed | The most surprising takeaway from the report, which is based on aggregated, anonymized US customer data, is that companies are unaware of how much data access is still afforded to former employees, former vendors, and former partners. | Data Management |
| SBWire - Big Data and Analytics Market Is Touching New Level – A Comprehensive Study with Key Players TIBCO, Google, Microsoft | This version of Worldwide Big Data And Analytics market report advocates analysis of Oracle Corporation, Alibaba, Mictostrategy, TIBCO, Google, Microsoft Corporation, MongoDB, Infor, Tableau, FICO, Baidu, SAS, IBM, Tencent, Qlik & SAP. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - 90% of Gen Z now using apps with interactive live video | Beyond gaming, Gen Z wants RTE integrated into their ecommerce and retail apps. Seventy percent said they would prefer retailers to offer AR and VR so that they can test and try products at home before buying. | Apps/DevOps |
| Enterprise Storage Forum - STaaS Providers Comparison: Google vs. Oracle | Storage as a Service (STaaS) is a fairly new concept for most businesses, but it’s quickly becoming a very crowded marketplace. | Data Storage |
| Open PR - Internet of Things in Banking Market Globally Expected to Drive Growth through 2025 | The basis of applications, the Internet of Things in Banking from 2015 to 2025 covers: Cyber Security, Customer Relationship Management, Logistics, Product management and planning, Marketing | IoT |
| Intelligent CIO - Transformation and Trust in the Digital Era: Insights into cloud security trends Transformation and Trust in the Digital Era: Insights into cloud security trends | "Across the sector, I’m seeing cloud being adopted to power new ways of working and to enable predictive analytics, Big Data and so on. Telco is another area, with cloud playing a major role in 5G and contact centres-as-a-service to improve customer relationships. " | Cloud |
| OpenPR - Supply Chain Security Market Growth, Forecast 2031 | An increase in integration of connected technologies like the Internet-of-Things (IoT) with supply chain and a rise in the ransom attacks will present a plethora of opportunities for the supply chain security market. | Security |
| SBWire - Automated Breach and Attack Simulation Market to See Huge Growth by 2026: Qualys, Cymulate, Firemon | Global Automated Breach and Attack Simulation market report highlights information regarding the current and future industry trends, growth patterns, as well as it offers business strategies to helps the stakeholders in making sound decisions that may help to ensure the profit trajectory over the forecast years. | Security |
| OpenPR - North America is expected to dominate the AI in Physical Security Market to through 2026 – TechSci Research | Drones require humans to plot the chart for their flight charts and the growing use of artificial technology is expected to reduce the requirement of human resources and increase the efficiency of machines to work independently. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Even experts are too quick to rely on AI explanations, study finds | Focusing on two groups — one with an AI background and one without — they found that both tended to over-trust AI systems and misinterpret explanations for how AI systems arrived at their decisions. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Data protection: UK to diverge from GDPR in post-Brexit overhaul of privacy rules | In an interview with The Telegraph, Dowden singled out policies around "pointless" cookie requests as something the UK could now diverge from -- but several data privacy experts have pointed out that cookies come under a completely different directive to GDPR. | Privacy |
| VentureBeat - How new regulation is driving the AI governance market | A report from StrategyR highlights this, predicting that AI governance software and services could be worth $402 million by 2026, up from $49.3 million in 2020. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - Honeywell Survey: 71% Of Surveyed Facility Managers State Concerns About Operational Cybersecurity | This is likely because more than 7 in 10 (71%) of surveyed facility managers consider OT cybersecurity a concern or worry. Moreover, respondents cite OT cybersecurity as the building improvement that would provide the greatest benefit to their stakeholders. | Security |
| VentureBeat - DevOps adoption is hampered by infrastructure challenges | That’s one finding in a new CloudBolt Software survey of 200 IT and DevOps leaders, which revealed that only 11% of developers find their CI/CD infrastructure reliable and 55% have difficulty creating consistent pipeline environments. | DevOps |
| sdxcentral - Operators Confront Souring Private Networks Position | Expectations for private enterprise 5G networks remain high among many analysts and industry associations, but the relatively tepid pace of adoption thus far merits some challenges and concern. | 5G |
| Network World - How to choose the best NVMe storage array | NVMe encompasses a family of specifications for how software talks to storage. It works over a number of transport methods, including PCI Express, RDMA, and TCP. | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Forrester exec on remote process automation’s ‘defining point’ | The report foresees a marketplace that’s expanding as vendors crowd under the umbrella of intelligent automation (IA). Some are traditional RPA vendors who will continue to expand their capabilities. Others are low-code and no code competitors that will gain enough functionality to compete with RPA tools. | Automation & Productivity |
| AiThority - IDC Forecasts Strong Growth For The Managed Edge Services Market With Worldwide Revenues Approaching $2.8 Billion In 2025 | Technology vendors including network equipment providers (NEPs) and software, datacenter, and networking vendors are vying to shape this market and play a significant role in delivering innovative edge services.” | Telecom |
| VentureBeat - SophosLabs: Research shows BlackMatter ransomware is closely acquainted with DarkSide | SophosLabs decoded this and found that BlackMatter ransomware has a similar structure and information stored in the configuration blob, like lists of processes and services to kill, the ransom note, C2 details, directories to avoid etc. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Gartner highlights key trends powering the rise of emerging technologies | The 2021 Gartner Hype Cycle For Emerging Technologies report, released today, highlights the rise of nonfungible tokens or NFTs, sovereign cloud, data fabric, generative artificial intelligence and composable networks, among other technologies it says can help organizations to secure a competitive advantage. | Emerging Tech |
| VentureBeat - The dos and don’ts of machine learning research | The paper, which Lones describes as “lessons that were learnt whilst doing ML research in academia, and whilst supervising students doing ML research,” covers the challenges of different stages of the machine learning research lifecycle. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Blocks & Files - DRAM prices rose again in 2Q21, but other components may put the brakes on | Because of these two trends, the firm said it is “bullish” on the profitability of DRAM suppliers for the next quarter, and even expects market leader Samsung to reach a 50 per cent operating profit margin for the first time in nearly three years. | Data Storage |
| ComputerWorld - Rethinking the smartphone for collaboration — or the PC for voice | Qualcomm has tools like AI that could be applied to create an even more compelling solution. The vendor could potentially remake the personal computer into something more in line with today’s needs than current PCs by integrating wireless voice communications. | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - Fintech Insights: IBM & ING Building Better Data Fabric for Financial Services | IBM believes the answer lies in data fabric, which can discover and unify disparate data sources – be it a data lake, catalog, or warehouse. Bringing them into one unified view can give users a single point of access to find, understand, shape, and utilize data throughout the organization | Data & Analytics |
| Edscoop - Higher ed balances federal relief terms against institutional needs | Some technology needs can be addressed through the portion of higher education relief funding designated to go directly to student grants, but any spending on updating a university’s IT or classroom technology must come from the institutional component of the funding. | EDTech |
| sdxcentral - Cisco's Campus Switch Dominance Threatened | Campus vendors have made a number of recent acquisitions in order to boost their market opportunities. Boujelbene pointed to Juniper’s acquisition of Mist Systems, Arista buying Mojo Networks, HPE swallowing Silver Peak, and Extreme purchasing Infovista’s SD-WAN division. | Network Management |
| AiThority - How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Data Capture | An ML-trained engine isn’t likely to make a mistake, in a moment of tiredness or distraction, and mis-classify datasets. Additionally, automated AI data extraction holds on to metadata and shares that too with analytics engines, enriching the data and improving analytics outcomes. | Artificial Intelligence |
| eWeek - Is Your Workplace Security System Working as It Should? | Implementing a solid security tech stack, like automatic occupancy tracking, a digital check-in, or an access control system, is, of course, important. The real challenge, however, is making sure that all the elements are integrated properly and are “talking” to each other. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - The big three innovations transforming cloud security | In the nearer term, Gartner expects that at least 10 vendors will offer a sufficiently complete single-vendor SASE offering by next year. SASE will transform the delivery of security in the next two to five years, and network and security vendors that can’t deliver a compelling SASE offering will lose significant market opportunities. | Cloud Security |
| VentureBeat - AI Weekly: AI research still has a reproducibility problem | QMIX is a popular algorithm that implements CTDE, and many research groups claim to have designed QMIX algorithms that perform well on difficult benchmarks. But a new paper claims that these algorithms’ improvements might only be the result of code optimizations or “tricks” rather than design innovations. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Datanami - Aerospike Unveils Results of Petabyte-Scale Benchmark of its Real-time Data Platform | Achieved in collaboration with AWS and Intel, the benchmark shows that even with significant data growth and extreme workloads, the Aerospike Database performs with hundreds of nodes less than other databases, saving up to $10M per application in infrastructure costs. | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - Can anyone tame the identity access beast? Okta aims to try | In this Breaking Analysis, we explore the complex and evolving world of identity access and privileged account management, with an assessment of Okta’s market expansion aspirations and fresh data from Enterprise Technology Research and input from ETR’s Erik Bradley. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Zapier: 60% of knowledge workers use automation to save time | Marketers save the most time due to automation tools, an average of 25 hours saved each week, followed by IT professionals at 20 hours, customer service representatives at 16 hours and HR professionals at eight hours. | Automation & Productivity |
| CMSWire - CDP Trends: The Market Bounces Back After a Slow 2020 | "The world did not end, and it turned out there's a lot of demand for this stuff because everybody's doing digital transformation, and digital transformation requires good customer data.” | Data & Analytics |
| Solutions Review - The Top 4 Data Storage Challenges in 2021 | Though data storage may seem somewhat straightforward, the COVID-19 pandemic has created problems storing data. To that end, our editors have outlined some of the top data storage challenges in 2021, as well as ways to combat those issues. | Data Storage |
| CEOWORLD Magazine - 5 Considerations for Designing the Right Cloud Infrastructure | It takes a strategic plan, deliberate action, and ongoing reassessment. For CIOs and other C-suite executives that haven’t yet started the infrastructure modernization process, here are five key considerations to include in that strategy: | Cloud |
| Network World - Are enterprises loving managed services? | Interestingly, 141 of the 177 total enterprises believe that MPLS VPNs are a form of managed service, and when I dug into this, the response was that “managed services” are about reducing the user's management burden. | IT Management |
| eWEEK - How to Rethink Security for Hybrid Work | The cybersecurity company ESET charted a 768% growth in RDP attacks in 2020, which equates to 29 billion attempted RDP attacks during that period. Many of those were simple brute force attacks. | Security |
| sdxcentral - Will Ransomware End Cyber Insurance as We Know It? | One insurer, AXA France, recently announced that moving forward, it won’t reimburse ransomware payments for new policy holders within the country. | Security |
| eWEEK - Three Steps to Enabling Better Use of Business Data | Of hundreds of C-level data executives polled, 82% said that data quality concerns are “very” or “quite” challenging, while 74% lack integration technology or services. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - The business value of clustering algorithms | For example, before a clustering algorithm can be used, data has to be in a standardized format. And the number of clusters sometimes must be decided ahead of deployment, because too many clusters could lead to process inefficiencies while too few could sacrifice accuracy. | Data & Analytics |
| Tech Startups - Six Crypto Incubators Powering Decentralized Projects You Should Keep an Eye On | Given the mass of entrants into blockchain as a whole, how can one be sure a DeFi incubator is a high quality? How are DeFi incubators different from the traditional incubator model? And what are some of the most interesting incubators to watch in the coming months? | Blockchain |
| VentureBeat - Airkit: 64% of consumers reported that customer service couldn’t solve their problems | And, while some companies already invested in new digital services prior to 2020, like chat, text, or chatbots, 20-33% of consumers still rated providers’ digital service offerings from “needing improvement” to “horrible.” | Automation & Productivity |
| Network World - Top SD-WAN vendors and how they got there | Big networking players like Cisco, HPE, and VMware, but also more specialized vendors like Versa and Fortinet, offer different flavors of SD-WAN for varying enterprise needs. | Network Management |
| sdxcentral - Cisco Claims Spot Among Top 10 Global Software Companies | The vendor reported a 7% sequential and 6% year-over-year increase in software revenue, adding that software subscriptions grew 9% from the year-ago period. | Tech Trends |
| Blocks & Files - Inspur goes world record SPC-1 benchmarking in the Optanical garden | A clustered 16-controller Inspur storage array system using Optane and NVMe SSDs has set an SPC-1 performance world record, overtaking Huawei. | Data Storage |
| Datanami - Wind River Research Finds an Intelligent Systems Approach on Track to Becoming a Predominant Business Model | The report surveyed technology executives across various mission-critical industries and revealed the 13 requirements of the intelligent systems world for which industry leaders must prepare. The research found that 80% of these technology leaders desire intelligent systems success within the next five years. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Proofpoint and the Ponemon Institute: Losses due to phishing have almost quadrupled since 2015 | Employee productivity losses are among the costliest to organizations, increasing from an average of $1.8 million in 2015 to $3.2 million in 2021. | Security |
| VentureBeat - MDBootstrap: 70% of web developers support social benefits to ease AI transformation | Exactly 70% agreed that governments should consider introducing social benefit policies, like social aids, health and shelter benefits, and universal basic income, in order to ease the burden of industry transformation and avoid the unemployment crisis related to AI advancement | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Industrial control system vulnerabilities up 41%, many of them ‘critical’ | According to the research, 637 ICS vulnerabilities were disclosed in the first half of 2021, a 41% increase compared to the second half of 2020. For comparison, the overall increase between 2019 and 2020 was just 25%. | Security |
| ZDNet - This ransomware has returned with new techniques to make attacks more effective | Trend Micro researchers have seen a number of LockBit ransomware campaigns in recent weeks, predominantly targeting organisations in Chile, but also the UK, Italy and Taiwan | Security |
| Network World - 5 things to know about pay-per-use hardware | On the adoption front, uptake so far is strongest in storage. Gartner predicts that in 2024, half of newly deployed storage capacity will be consumed as a service. On the server side, 5.6% of on-premises x86 server spending will be consumed as a service in 2024. | IT Management |
| Datanami - Privacy Concerns Rise As Businesses Report Increased Personal Data Collection | 86% of respondents saying data privacy is a growing concern for them and about two-thirds (68%) saying that the level of data collection by companies is concerning. | Data Privacy |
| threatpost - Phishing Costs Nearly Quadrupled Over 6 Years | BEC costs ramped up significantly in 2020, with more than $1.8 billion stolen from organizations as cybercrooks launch ever slicker attacks, either impersonating someone inside an organization or masquerading as a partner or vendor in order to pull off financial scams. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Report identifies security issues stemming from consumerization of IT | Based on an analysis of 263 billion enterprise network flows between April and June 2021, the report documents how systems like Amazon Sidewalk, a shared network made up of devices such as Amazon Echo smart speakers, Ring security cameras, outdoor lights, motion sensors, and Tile trackers, are finding their way on to enterprise IT networks | Security |
| eWeek - Mining Intelligence from Documents: 4 Key Concepts | It’s estimated that 80% of key decision-making is based on complex information found within documents, so it’s no surprise that uncovering essential content is now the number one priority for business leaders. It’s important to note that the definition of documents has expanded from Word files; they also encompass images, PDFs, paper and web forms, faxes, mobile photos, emails, chatbots and other free-form text used to engage and serve clients. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - 15 top-paying IT certifications for 2021 | Google’s Certified Professional Data Engineer certificate is the highest-paying in the U.S. today, with an average salary of $171,749. | IT Jobs |
| VentureBeat - Realizing IoT’s potential with AI and machine learning | Despite the massive amount of IoT data captured, organizations are falling short of their enterprise performance management goals because AI and ML aren’t scaling for the real-time challenges organizations face. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SiliconANGLE - 2021, COVID-19 and the internet: a look at what’s next for our networks | However, the telecom industry isn’t the only industry well-positioned to capitalize on this opportunity. It will be competing for relevance with over-the-top providers as well, including large cloud providers such as Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC. | Telecom |
| VentureBeat - Windows 365 response shows enterprises are hungry for cloud OS option | Such flexibility means that non-Windows devices like Android and/or iOS smartphones and tablets and MacOS machines could run Windows apps in a native Windows environment and not on an emulator. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - The cloud calculation: Factor these lock-in and switching costs into your cloud plans | It might take five minutes and $34 to spin up a new server for a website, but it could take months and thousands of dollars to move that site to a new service, if that becomes necessary. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Rethinking data protection in the 2020s | In this Breaking Analysis, we’re going to explore the evolving world of data protection and share some data on how we see the market evolving and the competitive landscape for some of the top players | Data & Analytics |
| sdxcentral - Amazon, Microsoft, Google Control Gartner’s Cloud Rankings | “AWS often sets the pace in the market for innovation, which guides the roadmaps of other CIPS providers. As the innovation leader, AWS has materially more mind share across a broad range of personas and customer types than all other providers,” | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Pepperdata CEO says AI ambitions outpace data management reality | "I think we’re getting to the trough of disillusionment right now, where people are saying only all that stuff is great, but what the hell is it doing? I’m spending more money, but I’m not understanding anything better." | Data & Analytics |
| Datamation - Cloud Computing Market 2021 | “In the past, most cloud adoptions were based on an application need or a particular use case. Today, cloud adoption incorporates nearly the entire IT stack outside of necessary on-premise[s] equipment, such as routing and switching.” | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Brain-computer interfaces are making big progress this year | BCI at its core is about extending our human capabilities or compensating for lost ones, such as with paralyzed individuals. | Emerging Tech |
| Datamation - Top Hybrid Cloud Trends | Most cloud vendors offer hybrid cloud platforms that connect best with their public clouds, but some solutions, such as IBM Cloud Satellite, are working to architect solutions among any public cloud, on-premises, or edge computing setup. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Why citizen development is the wrong model for many enterprises | Citizen developers don’t always think to do things like normalize data. They might not know about encapsulating reusable functionality into functions and rules, and instead repeat a lot of procedural work. | Automation & Productivity |
| Blocks & Files - Public cloud Hotel California costing exposed | Storing a petabyte of data in an Amazon file system can cost 400 per cent more per month than storing it in an on-premises all-flash file store, and moving it back on premises can cost tens of thousands of dollars. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - 7 biggest trends defining identity and access management in 2021 | Forrester predicts that IAM growth will continue to accelerate in 2021. The firm’s research found that 61% of security decision-makers plan to increase their IAM budget in 2021, with 32% expecting to increase by 5% or more. | Security |
| Yahoo! - Digital Signature Market Size to Increase by $ 7.10 Bn during 2021-2025 | Technavio | The market is driven by factors such as the growing number of partnerships and acquisitions and government regulations supporting digital signature. However, security concerns associated with digital signatures will hinder the market growth | Automation & Productivity |
| AiThority - Why Customers Share Their Data with You in the Cookiepocalypse Era? | it’s all about the need to be transparent and honest with your customers. So if you want them to share data with you, you need to be clear on what they get in return – and that had better be something worth having. | Data Privacy |
| IT Business Edge - Survey: Data Management Issues Hinder Digital Transformations | Top challenges cited include a lack of personnel or skills (38%) followed by not enough automation (29%). On the plus side, 85% of respondents say that their data operations (DataOps) strategy is either being accelerated or is at the very least nascent or emerging | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - 40% of orgs don't have a chief data officer: survey | Of the respondents to the survey, 84% said they thought data privacy and security requirements would limit access to data at their organizations over the next 24 months. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Takeaways from Gartner’s 2021 Hype Cycle for Cloud Security report | In addition, 61% of enterprises that integrated cloud as part of their digital transformation efforts grew revenue by 25% or more. Cloud infrastructure also enabled IT to meet tight time-to-market schedules for new applications and systems. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Philips study finds hospitals struggling to manage thousands of IoT devices | Nearly 40% of all large hospital systems hire IoT security solutions to protect their devices while 16% rely on the security provided by the medical device manufacturer. Some also turn to IT equipment vendors or 3rd party systems integrators. | IoT/Mobility |
| eWeek - How Edge Computing, Edge Networking, and Edge Data Management Work Together | The push for edge computing was driven by the need to improve application performance and optimize server resources; however, adoption has presented challenges | Edge Computing |
| VentureBeat - Data management investments often stumble, survey finds | The scorecard finds only 22% of the data leaders surveyed said they have fully realized a return on investment (ROI) in data management in the past two years. | Data Management |
| AiThority - COVID-19 Shapes Enterprise Sourcing Strategies, Fueling Growth In Private/Hybrid Cloud Adoption | Overall, ISG says the number of companies that plan to outsource their managed services has been rising since last year and is expected to keep growing. | Cloud |
| Geekwire - Livestreaming report: Amazon’s ‘New World’ gains attention as gamers flock to closed beta | Twitch’s growth rate has been slowed but not eliminated in the summer months; Facebook Gaming continues to grow its share of the livestreaming market; there’s a new competitor elbowing its way into the scene; and Amazon’s New World hit 34 million hours watched last month, as players flocked to its closed beta. | Gaming |
| CompTIA - 2021 Emerging Technology Top 10 List | CompTIA’s Emerging Technology Community recognizes the gap between the promise and profit of emerging technologies and has shifted the focus its of annual list of emerging technologies to uncover the top use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT). | Emerging Tech |
| HornetSecurity - 1 of every 4 companies suffered at least one email security breach | 68% of Microsoft 365 users expect security from external threats from Microsoft, yet 25% of them will report a breach this year. Only 50% of Microsoft 365 users utilize third-party security solutions. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Automated workflows gained traction during the pandemic | For example, customer support automation saw the biggest uptick of any department (over 290% year-over-year), with automation of return and refund processing experiencing 476% growth from the pre-pandemic period. | Automation & Productivity |
| Datanami - Survey of 500+ Data Professionals Reveals Large Gap in the Data Supply Chain | Over half (55%) of those surveyed report that data is often stale or out-of-date by the time it is consumed or analyzed. Lack of automation and data security challenges are root causes of the friction, and unless resolved, organizations will struggle to be successful with DataOps and cloud migration. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Salesforce: 90% of marketers report the pandemic improved data strategy | Sixty percent of teams have a fully defined AI strategy, and they’re reevaluating which data to use to target customers as the value of tracking cookies declines. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Netacea: Businesses lose up to $250M every year to unwanted bot attacks | This failure to detect and stop attacks is due, at least in part, to the lack of a unified approach and shared language in the bot community and a lack of understanding around the methods and motivations behind bot attacks. | Security |
| ZDNet - Tech jobs have an image problem, and it's making the skills shortage worse | A report by analytics provider Exasol in June found that less than half (49%) viewed data science as a viable career option, a conclusion largely blamed on employers, educators and the wider technology industry doing a poor job at making it sound like a field worth pursuing. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Coalition: Average ransom demand increased nearly 170% in the first half of 2021 | These cyber criminals have adopted less sophisticated attack techniques, including business email compromise, which increased 51% and funds transfer fraud which increased 28%. | Security |
| ZDNet - The BI fabric is slowly but surely evolving | Respondents to an informal social media survey that I've been running for the past couple of years report that 25% of organizations use 10 or more BI platforms, 61% of organizations use four or more, and 86% of organizations use two or more. | Data & Analytics |
| sdxcentral -Palo Alto Networks: Ransomware Demands Rocket 518% | With double extortion, which became increasingly popular last year, attackers first encrypt data and demand victims pay a ransom to regain access to compromised systems. But then, they also steal that data and threaten to publicly release sensitive information and IP if the organization doesn’t pay up. | Security |
| VentureBeat - AI’s real effect on jobs? It’s complicated | Oddly, this worry stems not just from losing to a robot, but from the fear that AI will drive them to make poor decisions due to bad data management, lack of critical tools, and other deficiencies that typically accompany a new working paradigm. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Gartner Forecasts Worldwide 5G Network Infrastructure Revenue To Grow 39% In 2021 | Of the segments that comprise wireless infrastructure in this forecast, the only significant opportunity for investment growth is in 5G. Investment in legacy wireless generations is rapidly deteriorating across all regions and spending on non-5G small cells is poised to decline as CSPs move to 5G small cells. | Telecom |
| AiThority - Over 80% Of Data Scientists Struggle With Real-World Datasets Despite Training: Scaler | More than 95% of respondents highlighted the need for Data Scientists to solve open-ended business problems. However, most other courses available offline & online tend to focus only on teaching how to optimise the accuracy of algorithms rather than how to impact the business positively. | Data & Analytics |
| Government Technology - Is Broadband for All Really Possible? | The faster speeds needed for video conferencing, telemedicine and robust online learning, as well as home entertainment, require fiber-optic cabling for their transmission. | Telecom |
| sdxcentral - Hyperscalers Fuel 400ZR Optical Buzz | According to the recently released report, the overall optical market will reach nearly $18 billion in sales by 2025, largely driven by wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) equipment. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Cmd: 74% believe threat detection is the biggest security challenge for digital transformation | 74% of respondents believe threat detection and 62% of respondents believe cloud security are the biggest security challenges for digital transformation initiatives, according to a study commissioned by Cmd and conducted by ViB. | Digital Transformation |
| Network World - Network certs 2021: Significant raises for the right ones | IT professionals who gained new skills or certifications last year received an average raise in excess of $12,000—more than double the average IT annual salary increase of $5,000, according to the most recent Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report, released this past December. | IT Management |
| Yahoo! - Healthcare Cyber Security Market Worth USD 16,393.15 Million by 2025 at 11.82% CAGR – Report by Market Research Future (MRFR) | The Health IT Security asserts that in 2019, close to 300,000 HealthEquity customers’ data was breached. | Security |
| eWEEK - 6 Cloud Security Must-Haves – with Help from CSPM, CWPP or CNAPP | These two categories of tools are converging, resulting in Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms, or CNAPPs. CNAPPs pull the controls available in CWPPs and CSPMs together, making cloud security easier for your team to manage. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - 5 tips for improving your data science workflow | The biggest wastes in data science and machine learning don’t stem from inefficient code, random bugs, or incorrect analysis. They stem from flaws in planning and communication. Execution mistakes can cost a day or two to fix, but planning mistakes can take weeks to months to set right | Data & Analytics |
| eWEEK - 5 Benefits of Disaster Recovery in the Cloud vs. On-Premises | I see five interrelated ways that DR in the cloud can help organizations of all types improve their approaches to preventing and recovering from data loss and downtime while ensuring they’re meeting their SLAs. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Acorio: Most enterprises have some kind of digital transformation plans | Digital transformation efforts are increasing in every industry, but none more so than financial services and healthcare, Acorio said | Digital Transformation |
| eWEEK - Network Industry Shows Strength Despite Tough Macro Issues | There are many shifts underway including SD-WAN, SASE, 5G and WiFi6 and businesses should be investing in the network to modernize it. Because of the chip shortage, businesses should be aggressively investing now to ensure they can get product when its available. | Network Management |
| SiliconANGLE - At Black Hat, mobile and open-source software emerge as key cybersecurity dangers | There is mounting evidence that threat actors are turning their considerable resources to exploiting vulnerabilities in mobile platforms. With an estimated 6 billion smartphone subscriptions around the globe, they’re just too attractive an opportunity to pass up. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Systems of systems: The next big step for edge AI | Leveraging the growing power and ubiquity of CPUs and neural processing units, edge AI can process growing haystacks of data right where they’re being created, finding their needles quickly for local or remote processing. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Datamation - Data Governance Trends 2021 | Our five data governance trends impacting the software marketplace in 2021 makes it clear that companies are focused on compliance to meet the requirements of a growing list of data privacy regulations as well as improving data management, performance, and efficiency related to data governance tasks. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - AI Weekly: Companies look to ‘scale up’ their use of AI | “[Companies] want to go beyond deploying a handful of [AI] models to deploying thousands of models — in fact, [AWS has] one customer that wants to deploy a million models.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| Tech Startups - TikTok tops the list of the most downloaded apps worldwide for July 2021, beating Facebook and Instagram | Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp rounded out the top five most installed non-gaming apps worldwide for the month of July. Meanwhile, Snapchat, Zoom, Telegram, CapCut, and Google Meet rounded out the top 10 non-gaming downloaded apps in July | Apps/DevOps |
| VentureBeat - Forrester: Adopting fraud-fighting AI requires the right technical framework | The Forrester report outlines AI’s unique strengths in combating fraud, including its ability to boost monitoring accuracy, augment human intelligence, and bring biometrics into the mainstream | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - New AI Approach Exceeds Performance of Traditional Models for Automatic Coding of Medical Notes | Researchers at AKASA, the only Unified Automation company for healthcare revenue cycle management, published a new study highlighting how a novel machine learning approach outperformed current state-of-the-art models for automatic coding of inpatient clinical notes by more than 18%. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Network World - Chip shortage has networking vendors scrambling | "Campus, routing, switching, and data center products are all affected. “And they're at the component level,” | Network Management |
| Datanami - New IDC Forecast for IaaS, PaaS Workloads Puts Worldwide Revenue at $400B in 2025 | Application development and testing, structured data management, and structured data analytics will be the largest workload segments by revenue share. | Data & Analytics |
| AiThority - AR Versus AI: Which is the Most Disruptive Emerging Technology? | According to its latest report, ‘Emerging Technology Sentiment Analysis Q2 2021’, 70% of industry professionals responded that AR is most disruptive force among the current crop of emerging technologies | Artificial Intelligence |
| SBWire -Forensic Technologies and Services Market Changing Strategies to Remain Competitive : Agilent Technologies, Promega, Thermo Fisher Scientific | This report provides a detailed overview of key factors in the Global Forensic Technologies and Services Market and factors such as driver, restraint, past and current trends, regulatory scenarios and technology development | Security |
| Marketwatch - Cyber Security Market Size 2021 | Industry Growth, Share, Trends, Segments and Forecast to 2027 | The email/web gateway infrastructure protection segment is estimated to grow at a CAGR of over 13.2% through the assessment timeframe owing to increasing occurrences of phishing e-mails across the globe. The SIEM infrastructure protection segment is expected to witness notable growth at around 13.8% CAGR through the analysis period. | Security |
| SBWire - Critical Infrastructure Protection Market to Eyewitness Massive Growth by 2026: Lockheed Martin,Raytheon, Rolta | This report provides a detailed overview of key factors in the Critical Infrastructure Protection Market and factors such as driver, restraint, past and current trends, regulatory scenarios and technology development. | Security |
| Martech Series - 81% of Employees Say AI Improves Their Job Performance – And They Want More | According to IDC, global spending on AI technologies reached $50.1 billion in 2020, a figure that is expected to double in the next four years. So it’s no surprise that AI is transforming the workplace as a result | Artificial Intelligence |
| Digital Lifescapes - Line of Business Buyers Disrupt the IT Status Quo | By 2024, 80 percent of technology products and services will be built by mainstream business people who are not technology professionals, according to the latest worldwide market study by Gartner. | Tech Trends |
| ZDNet - Best computer science resource 2021: Top options | There are dozens of apps -- many of them free -- that allow mobile phone users to learn to code. These apps have made learning to code more convenient than ever, and, for beginners, easier than eve | Training/Cert |
| Threatpost - Auditors: Feds’ Cybersecurity Gets the Dunce Cap | Audited agencies included the Departments of State, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Education and the Social Security Administration. Only one agency, DHS, received a B grade, while four got”Ds and three received C marks. | Security |
| SBWire - Management Consulting Services in Digital Transformation Market Is Thriving Worldwide : Cognizant, IBM, Aspect Software | As Management Consulting Services in Digital Transformation research and application [Large Enterprises and Small-medium Enterprises] continues to expand in scope, the market will see deeper integration and application of more technologies in the future. | Digital Transformation |
| Computer Weekly - Destruction and integrity cyber attacks on the rise | Cyber criminals are launching these attacks – known as destructive or integrity attacks – by using emerging techniques that enable them to “distort digital reality”, says the report. | Security |
| CPO Magazine - Cybersecurity Challenges for SMBs in 2021 | One of the most common misconceptions related to cyberattacks is that cybercriminals operate by targeting individual companies. While that may still happen to the biggest companies, for SMBs, the cybercriminals most often are targeting an organizations’ vulnerabilities, not the company itself | Security |
| VentureBeat - IDC: AI spending will reach $342B in 2021 | “Disruption is unsettling, but it can also serve as a catalyst for innovation and transformation. We have now entered the domain of AI-augmented work and decision across all the functional areas of a business." | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Security researchers warn of TCP/IP stack flaws in operational technology devices | Researchers at Forescout disclose INFRA:HALT, a set of 14 security vulnerabilities in TCP/IP stacks commonly used in industrial infrastructure - and organisations are urged to apply the updates. | Security |
| VentureBeat - 97% of execs say data science is ‘crucial’ to maintaining profitability | However, nearly as many say that flawed approaches to data science strategy, execution, and staffing make achieving that goal difficult. | Data & Analytics |
| datanami - New Sunlight.io Commissioned Research Shows Manageability Key Challenge of Deploying at the Far Edge | The report brings to the fore that while edge computing isn’t new in itself, recent digitisation and consumer demands mean enterprises are shifting to edge – driven by low latency, data gravity and data privacy requirements. But a lot is still undefined. | Edge Computing |
| sdxcentral - Trend Micro: 86% of Orgs Expect a Serious Cyberattack | The findings showed that most businesses expect to be impacted by a cyberattack in the near future. And 80% of global organizations reported that they are likely to experience a data breach that impacts customer data within a year. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Bipartisan Senate report finds federal agencies continue to suffer cybersecurity shortcomings | Of the eight agencies, seven agencies fail to provide adequate protection of personally identifiable information. Five agencies failed to maintain accurate and comprehensive IT asset inventories and six agencies failed to timely install security patches and other vulnerability actions. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Egress: 73% of orgs were victims of phishing attacks in the last year | Phishing attacks are still very prevalent. Employees continue to fall victim to phishing attacks with 43% not following security protocols and 36% rushing and making mistakes | Security |
| ZDNet - What are the most reliable hard drives and solid-state drives? | The biggest problem with measuring drive reliability is that you can only do it retrospectively, and the older a drive is, the more unreliable it becomes. | Data Storage |
| EDTech - 5 Higher Education UX Mistakes to Avoid | A recent Promethean survey of 2,000 educators found that a third refrain from teaching with technology because they believe the tools to be unreliable. | EDTech |
| SiliconANGLE - The 2021 tech spending boom: Cyber, cloud, hybrid work and data will drive 8% IT budget growth | Investments in cybersecurity, cloud, collaboration to enable hybrid work and data, including analytics, artificial intelligence and automation are the top spending priorities for CxOs. | Tech Trends |
| Network World - SSD prices expected to spike as Intel, AMD ship new server processors | Prices of enterprise-grade solid-state drives are likely to jump in the coming months, perhaps by as much as 15% over current SSD prices, says TrendForce, a Taiwanese market research firm that focuses on the memory market. | Data Storage |
| Datanami - Graph Database Market Worth $5.1 Billion by 2026 | Various factors such as need to incorporate real-time big data mining with visualization of results, increasing adoption for AI-based graph database tools and services to drive market, and growing demand for solutions that can process low-latency queries are expected to drive the adoption of graph database solutions and services | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - Initial Access Brokers lead ransomware efforts by selling access to compromised networks | IABs facilitate network intrusions by selling remote access to a computer in a compromised organization and link opportunistic campaigns with targeted attacks, often ransomware operators. | Security |
| ZDNet - Need developers, project managers or CIOs? Watch out, because the rules of tech hiring are changing | Inevitably, the pressure on IT staff will start building again, because you simply can't run these projects without developers or project managers or CIOs. | IT Management |
| AiThority - Robotic Process Automation Prone to Cyber Attacks: Beroe Inc. | Data theft, misusing privileged access and denial-of-service are common and emerging constraints of RPA growth, posing significant vulnerabilities to organizations. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Aqua Security: 97% unaware of crucial cloud native security principles | Fifty percent of vulnerable targets are being attacked within the hour. And while 73% of respondents were confident in their ability to stop software supply chain attacks, only 32% were confident in the runtime capabilities required to stop threats like Kinsing malware, which only downloads in runtime. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Cisco AppDynamics study reveals the risk of getting digital wrong | Although I certainly advocate trying new things, my and AppD’s data clearly show that whatever the business tries, it needs to work, or customers will drop a brand faster than J-Lo dropped A-Rod. | Digital Transformation |
| Wired - The Privacy Battle That Apple Isn’t Fighting | The technology for a universal opt-out didn’t actually exist yet, but last fall, a coalition of companies, nonprofits, and publishers unveiled a technical specification for a global privacy control that can send a CCPA-enforceable “Do not track” signal at the browser or device level. | Privacy |
| VentureBeat - AI Weekly: AI adoption is driving cloud growth | A majority consider AI to be important in their digital transformation efforts and intend to set aside between $500,000 to $5 million per year for deployment efforts. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Ransomware attempt volume sets record, reaches more than 300 million for first half of 2021: SonicWall | Within the US, the hardest hit states from a ransomware perspective were Florida, which saw 111.1 million ransomware attempts. New York had 26.4 million, while Idaho saw 20.5 million, and Rhode Island as well as Louisiana dealt with nearly 9 million. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Keys to personalizing AI for sales | With AI’s broad access to data, however, it can be trained to tap into the unique requirements of the individual at far greater scale than a human sales force. Perhaps, this is why two-thirds of companies report increased revenue from their AI-assisted teams, according to McKinsey. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat -IT leaders put growth over security, survey finds | The results reveal that enabling competitive differentiation is the top priority for 57% of IT leaders. This is followed by reducing or optimizing IT costs (55%), managing digital transformation initiatives (54%), and accelerating cloud adoption and migration (48%). | IT Management |
| Computerworld - Online privacy: Best browsers, browser settings, and tips | Cookies, beacons, digital signatures, trackers, and other technologies on websites and in apps let advertisers, businesses, governments, and even criminals build a profile about what you do, who you know, and who you are at very intimate levels of detail. | Privacy |
| Solutions Review - The Biggest Data Protection News Items During the First Half of 2021 | Part of Solutions Review’s ongoing analysis of the backup, disaster recovery, and data protection marketplace includes covering the biggest data protection news stories that have the greatest impact on enterprise technologists. | Data Management |
| Markets Insider - Intelligent Transportation Systems Market 2021-2027, Top 3 Trends Enhancing the Industry Expansion: Global Market Insights Inc. | Apparently, this infrastructure development would potentially fuel the demand for information display systems, tracking and monitoring systems, self-service baggage systems, and mor | Automation & Productivity |
| eWEEK - Riding the Hybrid Work Wave with Automation: Advice for Companies | It’s time to automate, automate, automate, and keep your skilled talent focused on the most meaningful tasks. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Marketing automation is key to reducing workloads, Zapier says | About 42% of marketers reported using automation to identify and target customers. More than a quarter of them used it to schedule emails, and about a third used marketing automation to send tailored messages, manage a subscriber database, or notify their team members of events. | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - Cisco researchers spotlight Solarmarker malware | The researchers explained that the Solarmarker campaign is being conducted by "fairly sophisticated" actors focusing their energy on credential and residual information theft. | Security |
| AiThority - T-Mobile Has Most Reliable 5G Network (Again) According to New Report | Average download speeds for T-Mobile’s 5G clocked in at 228 Mbps across the cities and reached a blazing 300 Mbps in Washington DC, and average 5G upload speeds across the 10 metros reached 46 Mbps – nearly double the closest competitor. | Telecom |
| Analytics Insight - Top 100 Cybersecurity Startups to Look Out for in 2021 | Analytics Insight has listed the top 100 cybersecurity start-ups of 2021 based on their solutions and performance | Security |
| Studies show cybersecurity skills gap is widening as the cost of breaches rises | According to ISSA and ESG, the cybersecurity skills shortage and its impacts haven’t improved over the past few years, and 44% of professionals say it’s only gotten worse. A major factor is the lack of “appropriate” compensation, with 38% of respondents to the survey citing it as their top reason. | Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Report finds API attack traffic growing three times faster than regular traffic | The finding is illustrates the security consequences of the rapid growth in API use driven by digital transformation and information technology modernization projects. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Phishers targeting everyone, from sales staff to C-suite execs | Barracuda found an average organization is targeted by over 700 social engineering attacks in a year, 49% of which are phishing attacks specifically. | Security |
| sdxcentral - IBM Report: Data-Breach Costs Hit 17-Year High of $4.24M | Despite the overall cost growth, organizations with more mature security postures that deployed tools including artificial intelligence (AI), automation, zero trust, and cloud security saw significantly lower costs. | Security |
| Harvard Business Review - Everyone in Your Organization Needs to Understand AI Ethics | Over 50% of executives report “major” or “extreme” concern about the ethical and reputational risks of AI in their organization given its current level of preparedness for identifying and mitigating those risks. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Low code: A promising trend or a Pandora’s Box? | The analyst community is having a field day with hype around “low code.” IDC has predicted that there will be more and more low code used and that the worldwide population of low-code developers will grow with a CAGR of 40.4% from 2021 to 2025. | DevOps |
| ZDNet - Ransomware: Here's how much victims have saved in ransom payments by using these free decryption tools | The No More Ransom portal now offers 121 free ransomware decryption tools which can decrypt 151 ransomware families. They've helped more than six million ransomware victims recover their encrypted files for free – all without the need to give into the demands of cyber extortionists. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Latest big data developments in the realm of data lakehouse | The component itself is obviously not new, but there is an interesting feature that was added in Spark 3.0, which is the Adaptive Query Execution (AQE). This features allows Spark to optimize and adjust query plans based on runtime statistics collected while the query is running. | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - What is AI? Here's everything you need to know about artificial intelligence | Typically, AI systems demonstrate at least some of the following behaviours associated with human intelligence: planning, learning, reasoning, problem-solving, knowledge representation, perception, motion, and manipulation and, to a lesser extent, social intelligence and creativity. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Phishing attacks get smarter as targets struggle to keep up | Eighty percent of those polled said they had seen an increase in the number of phishing attempts targeting their organizations, and 74% said their organizations had “fallen victim to a phishing attack in the last year | Security |
| SBWire - Enterprise Data Lake Market to Witness Massive Growth by Cazena, Dremio, Temenos | This research report represents a 360-degree overview of the competitive landscape of the Global Enterprise Data Lake Market. Furthermore, it offers massive data relating to recent trends, technological, advancements, tools, and methodologies. | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - ServiceNow is on a collision course with Salesforce.com. Here’s why | Now you may be thinking: Isn’t Salesforce’s revenue like five times that of ServiceNow, so how are they comparable? And the point is yes, but McDermott aspires to bring ServiceNow to that level and unseat Salesforce as the large, growing cloud-based SaaS company. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Equipping AI with emotional intelligence can improve outcomes | In order to bridge the gap between ambition and reality in AI, it is “absolutely critical” that organizations align AI with their cloud computing and cybersecurity initiatives, | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Netskope report finds cloud-delivered malware increased 68% in Q2 | "In Q2 2021, 43% of all malware downloads were malicious Office docs, compared to just 20% at the beginning of 2020." | Security |
| VentureBeat - Airbnb CTO says graph neural networks will be big in 2021 | If we look at what’s happening today, there are some amazing technologies coming up,” Josifovski said, such as graph neural networks, transformer models, and language models. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Why unstructured data is the future of data management | According to the latest figures from research firm ITC, the volume of unstructured data is set to grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes, or 175 billion terabytes, by 2025 | Data & Analytics |
| sdxcentral - Cisco Report: CISOs’ SASE Spend Edges Toward 75% of Budget | Almost all (98%) CISOs plan to spend money on secure access service edge (SASE), and 55% of them intend to prioritize 25% to 75% of future IT security budgets on it | Security |
| Network World - Wi-Fi 6E: Don’t let hype push you off your refresh cycle | The issue with buying 6E now, however, is that most of the devices are still fairly far off, and almost everything--from printers to smartphones to IoT gadgets--is designed to work on existing Wi-Fi frequencies. | Telecom |
| AiThority - 5G Reliability, Availability, and Speed Revealed in Major Nationwide Network Review | GWS determined that AT&T has the most reliable 5G nationwide network, completing 99.5% of the data transfer tasks performed on 5G networks. Verizon Wireless finished second at 98.8% and T-Mobile third at 97.3%. | Telecom |
| Blocks & Files - Coldago survey: users love cloud, cloud-native and flash arrays; secondary storage surprises | Cloud storage is the top technology, followed by all-flash arrays (AFA) and all-flash NAS. Somewhat surprisingly, tape technology is in the list, only slightly behind NVMe-over-Fabrics. | Data Storage |
| Datanami - Anaconda Releases 2021 State of Data Science Survey Results | mong the trends highlighted by the report, it’s clear that data science has become an essential part of many organization’s workflows. However, the results also indicate there is still room to grow. | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - Prepare for AI that learns to code your enterprise applications | We believe that in the next five to 10 years or sooner, based on the groundbreaking innovation in AI, like AI 2.0, TuringBots will be created by several tech vendors | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - Deep Instinct Further Shields Businesses Against Cyberattacks As Ransomware Attacks More Than Double | Furthermore, it details what’s ahead for ransomware following attacks by REvil and DarkSide, plus industry trends such as plans to combat malicious actors through public/private partnerships, and the rise of double extortion | Security |
| ZDNet - Cloud security in 2021: A business guide to essential tools and best practices | "One of the things that's most important about cloud is identity is king. Identity becomes almost your proxy to absolutely everything. All of a sudden, the identity and its role and how you assign that has all of the power," | Cloud Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Study finds most software container users are unaware of crucial security principles | The 2021 Cloud Native Security Practitioner study, based on a survey of 150 cloud-native security practitioners and executives from information technology, security and DevOps teams, found that only 3% of respondents recognize that a container, in and of itself, is not a security boundary. Conversely, 97% didn’t, indicating that the default security capabilities of containers are overestimated. | Security |
| Datanami - Deloitte, US Chamber of Commerce Report Highlights How Public Policy Can Enable Trustworthy AI | Similarly, the survey found that workers could become more confident in using and working alongside AI systems as it improved their day-to-day work experience, increased job safety, and lead to a more productive workplace | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxCentral - Cato Ribs Palo Alto Networks, Other SASE Imposters | Yovel claimed many competing vendors — specifically calling out Palo Alto Networks — have opted to push virtualized remote access, security, and networking appliances into the public cloud, rather than rework them into a unified cloud-native platform. | Network Management |
| Datanami - WHO Issues First Global Report on AI in Health | The report, Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health, is the result of 2 years of consultations held by a panel of international experts appointed by WHO. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Algorithmia founder on MLOps’ promise and pitfalls | While there is significant business value to MLOps, implementation can be difficult in the absence of a robust data strategy. | Data & Analytics |
| NetworkWorld - Survey: Home-office networks demand better monitoring tools | Enterprise Management Associates found that 96% of network infrastructure and operations teams are allocating budget to enhance their toolsets to support users who work from home. | Network Management |
| Techstartups - Eliminating IT bottlenecks with simplicity: How low code platforms hold the key | IT teams have struggled to meet this growing demand due to limited resources and an industry-wide lack of developers. This has created an IT delivery gap, where the digital advancement of industrial businesses is being delayed by the IT bottleneck. | DevOps |
| Datanami - 81% of Employees Say AI Improves their Job Performance | As a result, more than two thirds (68%) are calling on their employers to deploy more AI-based technology to help them execute their daily work better and faster. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Computerworld - Voice is becoming a primary search technology | Voice will soon be a primary way consumers connect to the digital world and a primary way digital marketers will connect with actual consumers…. It’s time to get ready.” | Tech Trends |
| Datanami - Unbabel Announces LangOps Survey Results, New Market Category | "LangOps will redefine how businesses unify and manage their language strategy to unlock business growth and exceed customer expectations.” | Automation & Productivity |
| NetworkWorld - Hybrid cloud success: 5 things to forget about, 4 things to remember | The second strategy is to forget “moving” applications to the cloud. The biggest benefits of cloud computing are scalability and resilience, but applications written for the data center can't normally exploit those “cloud-native” benefits. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - AI adoption and analytics are rising, survey finds | 80% of respondents in the U.S. said that they’d accelerated their AI adoption over the past two years. Moreover, 20% said they’d boosted their usage of business analytics compared with the global average, a potential sign that trust in AI is growing. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SiliconANGLE - Google Cloud: New healthcare survey shows better interoperability improves patients’ lives | From the survey, the top four takeaways were that more communication would improve patient experiences, that it would provide more personalized care, that doctors felt “hamstrung” by inefficient reporting systems and that interoperability should be a priority. | HealthTech |
| NetworkWorld - SD-WAN buyers guide: Key questions to ask vendors (and yourself) | SD-WAN technology has evolved from WAN optimization on steroids to encompass a comprehensive set of features that include core routing functionality, advanced WAN optimization and application-aware firewalls, all managed via a centralized software overlay. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - Digital threads link workflows across users | Now the tides are changing, with improvements to tools that speed up design and preserve data relationships across apps. It is now possible to create an intelligent model-based design in less time than it previously took to complete simple job sketches. | Digital Transformation |
| SiliconANGLE - Three ways customers will dictate the future of the cloud | Gartner expects that cloud will not only be a technological approach for delivering infrastructure and applications, but will also serve as the key driver of information technology modernization and business innovation when and where the customer requires it. | Cloud |
| ComputerWorld - Noteworthy technology acquisitions 2021 | Among a late flurry of big deals was the $35 billion acquisition of Xilinx by Advanced Micro Devices and Salesforce's $27.7 billion acquisition of Slack. | Tech Trends |
| Threatpost - Top CVEs Trending with Cybercriminals | An analysis of such chatter, by Cognyte, examined 15 cybercrime forums between Jan. 2020 and March 2021. In its report, researchers highlight what CVEs are the most frequently mentioned and try to determine where attackers might strike next. | Security |
| NetworkWorld - What is Network as a Service (NaaS)? | In the infrastructure space, for example, more than 75% of infrastructure in edge locations and up to 50% of data-center infrastructure will be consumed in the as-a-service model by 2024, according to research firm IDC. | Network Management |
| ZDNet - Best computer science job 2021: Top careers compared | Discover the career paths and career timelines of computer science contractors and full-time roles, including typical job assignments, salaries, and degrees. | Tech Careers |
| Blocks & Files - Cloudian’s ransomware report surprisingly recommends organisations buy Cloudian products | Phishing continues to be one of the easiest paths for ransomware – Phishing succeeded despite the fact that 65 per cent of those that reported it as the entry point had conducted anti-phishing training for their employees; | Security |
| Threatpost - The Evolving Role of the CISO | As enterprises continue to evolve, a growing number of effective CISOs will be asked to inherit enterprise risk-management or infrastructure responsibilities. | Security |
| Datanami - 93% of IT Decision Makers Agree Embracing Data Storytelling is the Secret to Boosting Revenue | Sixty-one percent of respondents cited lack of context as the biggest problem with dashboards, and more than half (53%) agreed that dashboards are often disregarded because of the time it takes to interpret them. | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - AWS’ secret weapon is revolutionizing computing | In this Breaking Analysis, we’ll dig into the moves that AWS has been making, explain how they got here, why we think this is transformational for the industry and what this means for customers, partners and AWS’ many competitors. | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Best online computer science degree 2021: Top picks | Discover the best online computer science degrees and programs, as well as the advantages of pursuing computer science bootcamps, certificates, and certifications. | Training/Cert |
| Datanami - Cloudian Ransomware Survey Finds 65% of Victims Penetrated by Phishing Had Conducted Anti-Phishing Training | The survey found that traditional ransomware defenses are failing, with 54% of all victims having anti-phishing training and 49% having perimeter defenses in place at the time of attack. | Security |
| The Verge - The next big social network trend? Shortform audio | Multiple startups, including Beams, Quest, and Nowzad’s app Pludo are betting their efforts, and investors’ cash, that there’s business to be had in this user-generated audio. | Tech Trends |
| ZDNet - Fastest VPN 2021: Top services tested and compared | Our in-house tests showed Hotspot Shield as the fastest. But when you aggregate average scores across the internet, and you factor in how consistent those scores are, NordVPN comes out on top, with Hotspot Shield and ExpressVPN close behind. | VPN |
| VentureBeat - Trilogy of Data, analytics, AI is accelerating innovation across industries | Davenport and Siebel shared their insights into how technology has boosted innovation and how it can transform industries, as well as the dangers it presents. | Tech Trends |
| SiliconANGLE - OT and IoT attacks rise as ransom payments are expected to hit $20B this year | In the OT sector, there is also a rising number of industrial control systems vulnerabilities. Industrial Control Systems are noted as the most susceptible sector, with a 44% increase in discovered vulnerabilities in the five months to the end of May. | Security |
| Datanami - More than Half Migrating Live Data to the Cloud are Shipping it by Truck | As a result, more than 54% of migration projects have not gone according to plan with 24% not completed on time, 11% not within budget, and 20% missing the mark on both. | Cloud |
| VentureBeat - Global IT spending to reach $4.2T in 2021, Gartner says | Communications services ($1,444,980 million) and IT services ($1,176,676 million) saw the most spending by far in 2021, and Gartner predicts the trend will persist in 2022. | IT Management |
| GovConWire - IBM Survey: Government IT Decision Makers Say Agencies to Prioritize Cybersecurity in FY 2022 | Nearly 70 percent of respondents said they consider security risks as the top barrier to cloud migration. The survey also showed that security outweighs cost reduction by nearly twofold as the reason for advancing IT modernization. | Security |
| Blocks & Files - After GigaOm’s Radar comes Sonar, as it dives deeper into emerging tech | Its first Sonar report looks at decentralised storage with peer-to-peer technology, and uses a three-axis triangle scheme rating companies’ positioning in terms of their roadmap, technology and strategy. | Data Storage |
| AiThority - 45 Million Of 5G Small Cells Will Be Installed By 2031 Forecasts IDTechEx | However, the new use cases such as industrial IoT 4.0, cellular vehicle to everything (C-V2X), new entertainment experiences, and smart cities, are where the real innovations are occurring and the huge market potential lies. | Telecom |
| VentureBeat - Kayak chief scientist says AI benefits outweigh deployment pain | Participants in Alation’s State of the Data Culture Report said the same, with a clear majority of employees (87%) pegging data quality issues as the reason their organizations failed to successfully implement AI. | Artificial Intelligence |
| TechStartups - How to use digital transformation to power through the “new normal” | Digital transformation resolved many of the issues raised by COVID-19, but it brought new challenges of its own. However, there’s good reason to be optimistic that ongoing digitalization can deliver solutions to these new difficulties as well. | Digital Transformation |
| AiThority - GBT Researching Implementation Of AI Methods For Optical Networks | This research will cover implementing AI techniques for ultra-high-performance optical networks targeting characterization and operation of network components to increase performance, cybersecurity, reliability and quality control. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Cloud migration is only a first step, Accenture says | The findings show that almost every company adopted some type of cloud and AI in the last decade, and that about a third are aiming to move more than 75% of workloads into the cloud. Only half, however, are using cloud to transform their day-to-day business | Cloud |
| Fast Company - The 26 best new productivity apps for 2021 | A less-messy Gmail: As an answer to all the cruft that Google’s email service has built up over the past 17 years, Simplify Gmail is a revelation. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Execs from MasterCard, PayPal, and Goldman Sachs discuss major AI trends in the finance industry at Transform 2021 | “AI and machine learning is being used in a broader array of applications than ever before, including security, fraud detection, identity, personalization, and even internal efficiency applications," | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - 5G, IoT and AI: The Work of Art and Technology at Play in 2021 | According to IoT Analytics’ latest update on the overall enterprise IoT market, the spending on enterprise IoT solutions grew 12.1% in 2020 to $128.9 billion despite COVID-19 pandemic cutting opportunities across industries. | IoT/Mobility |
| NetworkWorld - Survey: AIOps-driven network management can make your business run better | Recently, EMA published “Revolutionizing Network Management with AIOps,” a report that found 90% of the surveyed networking pros believe applying AIOps to network management can lead to better business outcomes for an overall enterprise. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - 5 things cybersecurity leaders need to know to make hybrid work safe | "[If] we’re going to be using these hybrid modes of operation, I think we need to insist on more control over the devices that are used from home.” | Security |
| ZDNet - Global PC shipments remained steady in Q2, but declines are on the horizon | IDC defines the PC market as desktops, notebooks (including Chromebooks) and workstations but not tablets or x86 Servers. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - The hybrid cloud balance: Knowing when to shift between public and private | My own view is that the public cloud is indispensable to digital transformation. It remains one of the biggest opportunity areas for organizations and is practically the only proven way to scale a business quickly and reliably. | Cloud |
| AiThority - Enterprises Worldwide Look To Outsourcing Providers To Manage Private And Hybrid Clouds | “Enterprises worldwide have realized that outsourcing their cloud infrastructure management is a great way to realign their IT systems with business objectives in the most cost-effective manner,” | Cloud |
| Statescoop - Counties' concern over IT costs dropped during pandemic, survey will reveal | Even in the early months of COVID-19, many county executives said they were spending freely on IT needs — often related to remote work and digital services — even as their financial situations turned bleak. | IT Management |
| Campus Technology - Pandemic Has Increased Expected Spending on Digital Transformation, IT | The investment in digital and IT beat out a number of other priorities, including people and culture development (where 59 percent of respondents plan to increase investment), staff/hiring (35 percent) and legal, compliance and risk management (30 percent). | Digital Transformation |
| CIODive - Hybrid work transition overwhelms, challenges IT professionals | But IT departments will have to grapple with cleaning up a sprawling set of collaboration apps and software, deciding which ones will best suit hybrid needs long-term. | IT Management |
| SiliconANGLE - JEDI contract cancellation could give DOD cloud strategy a needed reboot | “There’s no one-size-fits-all solution or public cloud provider for the public sector, and the DOD’s decision to abandon JEDI is evidence of this," | Cloud |
| ZDNet - Cloud computing's destiny: operating as a single global computer, enabled by serverless | Serverless computing will make this all possible opening access without the complications of backend provisioning and security management. | Cloud |
| CyberSecDN - 85% of organizations are yet to hit the cloud native technologies adoption milestone | Nearly 30 percent run applications on a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes, 15.3 percent do so mostly on VMs with plans to fully migrate to Kubernetes, and 13.1 percent are on VMs and evaluating Kubernetes for deployment. | Cloud |
| Forrester - Top 143 Social Media Groups For MSPs, VARs, And Tech Channel Professionals | Many vendors view social media as an advertising platform — to the tune of $49 billion in 2021. Channel professionals should view it differently: as a way to engage with partners at a grassroots level and build personal and professional relationships in between face-to-face events | Channel Marketing |
| VentureBeat - Public cloud security ‘just barely adequate,’ experts say | While the vast majority (73%) currently operate in a multicloud environment, almost all security professionals surveyed (98%) report that relying on multiple cloud providers creates additional security challenges. | Security |
| ZDNet - Business broadband: Best internet service provider in 2021 | Business internet providers offer a feature set that consumer cable companies won't touch, including upload speeds that are as fast as download speeds, a detail that matters for design firms that routinely exchange massive video and CAD files with remote business partners | Internet |
| VentureBeat - DoubleVerify: Mobile app video fraud exploded 50% in the last year | The figures are one of several eye-opening statistics about the current state of media quality and performance on the Web. | Security |
| AiThority - 20% of Gen Z Spends More Than 5 Hours Every Day on TikTok, according to research by getWizer and Joy Ventures | “This is incredibly valuable information for brands looking to use social media to connect with GenZ.” | Apps |
| Blocks & Files - GigaOm sees divergence in Kubernetes storage market – between cloud-native and traditional enterprise | "They have two deployment models: traditional enterprise storage arrays with a CSI (Container Storage Interface) plug-in; and software-defined storage with container optimisations." | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Researchers detail blind spots of large language models | As the team explains in a paper, Scarecrow divides errors into 10 categories identified by combining expert analysis with crowdsourced annotation: | Natural Language |
| ZDNet - Open source is everywhere in business. Here's what's driving adoption | The survey found that 89% of businesses run open source software internally, while 65% contribute to open source software projects | DevOps |
| VentureBeat - Best enterprise identity access management software | These tools generally perform two functions: They confirm that the user, device, or application is who they say they are by cross-referencing the credentials they provide against what the system has on file. | Security |
| VentureBeat - CISO implementation guide: 10 ways to ensure a cybersecurity partnership will work | As a result, Gartner predicts the combined endpoint security and network access market will be a $111 billion opportunity. For such cybersecurity companies, partnerships are a quick path to lucrative deals and higher profits. | Security |
| Datanami - 85% of Enterprises Have Yet to Cross the Chasm to Full Kubernetes, Cloud Native Adoption | Nearly 30 percent run applications on a mix of bare metal, VMs and Kubernetes, 15.3 percent do so mostly on VMs with plans to fully migrate to Kubernetes, and 13.1 percent are on VMs and evaluating Kubernetes for deployment. | Cloud |
| Computerworld - US IT job growth continues — and has more than regained pandemic losses | That salary survey shows that IT execs in large enterprises are getting the largest salary boosts, with a median increase of 3.2%. Those in midsize enterprises are seeing median rises of 1.2%. | IT Jobs |
| Datanami - Half of Financial Services Organisations Say they’ll Need ‘Intelligent Data Automation’ to Survive | Intelligent data automation — a data management strategy that uses no-code, cloud-based technology to automate and control all financial, operational and commercial data across an organisation — helps firms to cut costs significantly while reducing risk and improving compliance with tightening regulation. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - 21 ways medical digital twins will transform health care | These digital twins can create useful models based on information from wearable devices, omics, and patient records to connect the dots across processes that span patients, doctors, and health care organizations, as well as drug and device manufacturers. | Digital Twins |
| AiThority - Top 15 Marketing Tools to Become an Instagram Powerhouse in 2021 | With users and followers becoming ‘content-generation centers’ with DIY resources, marketers have to face serious competition from different places. Knowing about the best Instagram marketing tools not only help in staying ahead of the trends but also gain reliable access to social media intelligence. | Marketing Tech |
| VentureBeat - Attackers use ‘offensive AI’ to create deepfakes for phishing campaigns | The survey, which looked at both existing research on offensive AI and responses from organizations including IBM, Airbus, Airbus, IBM, and Huawei, identifies three primary motivations for an adversary to use AI: coverage, speed, and success. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Cyber insurance isn't helping with cybersecurity, and it might be making the ransomware crisis worse, say researchers | Some ransomware gangs are even actively seeking to target victims with cybersecurity policies because they believe that's the best way to guarantee they'll make money from encryption campaigns. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Global cloud spending boomed in Q1, surpassed non-cloud, IDC says | Overall, IDC expects expects shared cloud infrastructure spending to eventually surpass non-cloud infrastructure spending in the near future. | Cloud |
| Mobile App Daily - Latest Technology Trends That Will Impact Businesses in 2021 | Here’s our take on the latest technology trends that will heighten your business functionalities this year. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Nvidia benchmark tests show impressive gains in training AI models | The latest set of benchmarks span eight different workloads covering a range of use cases for AI model training, including speech recognition, natural language processing, object detection, and reinforcement learning | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - Consumers Fear Businesses Are Prioritizing Speed Over Security as Online Fraud and Identity Theft Grow | Seventy-six percent of consumers feel that they’re at greater risk from online fraud than a year ago, and 75% are now worried about becoming a victim of fraud. | Security |
| VentureBeat - Applause: 69% say digital accessibility is high priority | There multiple reasons why designing accessible websites and applications made sense for businesses, such as improved user experience, deeper market penetration and brand awareness, improved automation efforts, and mitigating legal risks. | Accessibility |
| NetworkWorld - The 10 most powerful companies in enterprise networking 2021 | Companies that made in our top 10 most powerful in enterprise networking have demonstrated that they have a clear vision for the future of networking and that they have a solid game plan for achieving their goals. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - Cybersecurity is the next frontier for AI and ML | Then, there are a couple of companies that are using belief networks to model expert knowledge, for example, for event triage or insider threat detection. But unfortunately, these companies are a dime a dozen. | Security |
| AiThority - 20 Martech Leaders on What they Think About Google’s Decision to Continue Cookie Tracking | “Moving away from third party cookies and toward first-party data puts consumers in control of how their data is used while companies can deliver real-time experiences that are most relevant to consumers. | Privacy & Security |
| AiThority - Ensono Research Signals Multi-Cloud Strategies Will Dominate The Future Of Cloud Services | The report revealed that multi-cloud strategies are emerging as a dominant part of respondents’ long-term IT roadmap and Microsoft Azure is the most-often cited public cloud vendor amongst the surveyed population | Cloud Computing |
| VentureBeat - Aqua Security: 50% of new Docker instances attacked within 56 minutes | The majority of attacks were focused on crypto mining, which may be perceived as “more of a nuisance than a severe threat,” Aqua Security noted. However, 40% of attacks also involved backdoors to gain access to the victim’s environment and networks. | Privacy & Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Global public cloud infrastructure spending grows more than 40% in 2020 | Huawei saw its cloud IaaS revenue surge by a stunning 202.8%, to $2.7 billion, giving it a market share of 4.2% in 2020. That’s up from just 1.9% in 2019, and marks the company’s first appearance in Gartner’s top five list of cloud IaaS providers, displacing IBM Corp | Cloud |
| AiThority - Digital Advertising Trends Disrupted by Increasing Security And Quality Violation | According to the latest report on digital advertising trends, online advertising is no longer safe and secured from malvertising and fraud. One in every 150 impressions is either deemed dangerous to the user or rated disrupted. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Amazon, Microsoft lead 40% growth of IaaS public cloud services market in 2020: Gartner | Amazon far outpaced the rest of the market with $26.2 billion of revenue in 2020 and a commanding 41% market share. | Cloud Computing |
| McKinsey - The top technology trends | One of those trends is clean technologies. Applications range from power supplies to transport to buildings and infrastructures to water. | Sustainability |
| VentureBeat - Auditoria: Many corporate finance back office systems are not automated | While other departments are embracing advanced technologies, finance is stuck in the early aughts, wasting precious time and resources on manual tasks that could be automated. | Automation & Productivity |
| The State of Kubernetes Security | Twice each year for its State of Kubernetes Security report, StackRox examines how companies are adopting Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native technologies while meeting the challenges of securing these environments | Privacy & Security |
| Computerworld - Review: 6 top videoconferencing services put to the test | We compared Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, Google Meet, BlueJeans, and GoToMeeting in real-world tests to see which videoconferencing platforms perform best for business users | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - DeepMind AGI paper adds urgency to ethical AI | With AI models such as Wu Dao 2.0 and computing power both growing exponentially, might reinforcement learning — machine learning through trial and error — be the technology that leads to AGI as DeepMind believes? | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - 7 keys to evaluating zero trust security frameworks | Interest in zero trust grew more than 230% in 2020 over 2019, according to Gartner. Twenty to thirty new vendors claim to have zero trust-native products or services every quarter, with at least a dozen or more entirely new solutions announced at the RSA Conference | Privacy & Security |
| Cloud 'sticker shock' explored: we're spending way too much, some venture capitalists say | "Even modest or more modular architectural investment early on — including architecting to be able to move workloads to the optimal location and not get locked in — reduces the work needed to repatriate workloads in the future | Cloud Computing |
| SiliconANGLE - 5 key findings from the AWS Startup Showcase you might have missed: AI, security and life sciences | Here are five additional insights from the AWS Startup Showcase conversations. | Tech Trends |
| TechTarget - Top 9 blockchain platforms to consider in 2021 | Blockchain applications in supply chain tracking, trade finance, digital assets and identity management are going beyond the pilot stage. | Blockchain |
| VentureBeat - Precisely: 82% of data executives cite data quality as a barrier | Data teams spend too much time on average (40%) cleaning and prepping data for analysis, with some reporting as high as 80%, and almost 9 in 10 CDOs said they are challenged by a lack of staff with the right skills. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Ensono: Security is a key factor when choosing a public cloud provider | There are many factors to considered when selecting a public cloud provider, but 56% in a recent survey said security concerns had the most significant influence during the selection process for public cloud providers | Cloud Computing |
| Datanami - 65% of US Professionals See the Cloud as Vital to their Jobs | The need for greater network security has also grown in significance among respondents, with two in five suggesting they would pay more for better security, and 64% also stating that they had concerns about business files being saved in the cloud | Cloud Computing |
| ZDNet - IT leaders say cybersecurity funding being wasted on remote work support: survey | Respondents were more split on the top concerns, with 39% referencing software vulnerabilities, 37% expressing concern about reused usernames and passwords and 36% mentioning unsecured networks. Another 29% said device theft was also a concern. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Hackers are trying to attack big companies. Small suppliers are the weakest link | Researchers at cybersecurity company BlueVoyant examined hundreds of SMB defence company subcontractor firms and found that over half of them had severe vulnerabilities within their networks, including unsecured ports and unsupported or unpatched software | Privacy & Security |
| Datanami - New Research Finds Businesses Must Rethink Path to Trusted Data as Foundation for Growth | An overwhelming majority of C-level data executives (82 percent) say data quality concerns represent a barrier to data integration projects — the precursor to digital transformation initiatives and deriving insights to power sound business decisions. | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - Average time to fix critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities is 205 days: report | WhiteHat Security researchers said the top five vulnerability classes seen over the last three months include information leakage, insufficient session expiration, cross site scripting, insufficient transport layer protection and content spoofing. | Privacy & Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Research finds container infrastructure can be exploited in under one hour | The use of botnets continues to rise and they were found to be swiftly finding and infecting new hosts as they become vulnerable. Notably, 50% of new misconfigured Docker container application programming interfaces are attacked by botnets within 56 minutes of being set up. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Remote onboarding to drive digital identity verification spend | Businesses will be spending $16.7 billion globally on digital identity verification technology by 2026, according to Juniper Research, representing a 77% growth on the anticipated $9.4 billion spend in 2021. | Privacy & Security |
| AWS’ secret weapon is revolutionizing computing | In this Breaking Analysis, we’ll dig into the moves that AWS has been making, explain how they got here, why we think this is transformational for the industry and what this means for customers, partners and AWS’ many competitors. | Cloud Computing |
| Blocks and Files - IDC SWD Infrastructure Tracker favours Nutanix over VMware | Another oddity to our eyes is that NetApp has seven per cent of the market while HPE, with SimpliVity and Nimble dHCI products is, we suppose, either absent altogether or lumped into the Others category. | Data Storage |
| VentureBeat - Aiven: 91% of developers say open source is in their future | The most popular advantage listed by developers was the transparency of open source code, which makes it easier to find and fix bugs quickly. 69% of respondents identified this as a key benefit. | Apps/DevOps |
| SiliconANGLE - What’s driving the never-ending cloud startup boom | Paypal Holdings Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., Shopify Inc. and Zoom Video Communications Inc. — were collectively worth more than $1 trillion at the end of last year. | Cloud Computing |
| VentureBeat - Weighing the pros and cons of public, hybrid, and multicloud architecture | The complexity of configurations can be a barrier to enterprises on the cusp of adoption, particularly in light of the talent gap. A recent 451 Research survey found that 90% of organizations are experiencing a shortage of cloud-related skills. | Cloud Computing |
| VentureBeat - Wizards of OSS: Industry perspectives on open source software | “Everything from operating systems, databases, web servers, programming languages, and developer tools all wouldn’t be possible without open source,” | Apps/DevOps |
| SiliconANGLE - Cloud costs ignite fresh debate in tech community over where to run the enterprise | If they are right, and enterprises decide to do something about it, the major cloud providers will have a critical decision to make. Do they cut prices and sacrifice profit margins or stand firm and accept the loss of workloads to on-premises infrastructure? | Cloud Computing |
| VentureBeat - Anodot: 80% of orgs cannot detect spikes in cloud costs | Greater than 25% stated that it can take months or weeks or several days to notice a spike in cloud costs. In fact, business spending more than $2 million on cloud costs had less insight into cloud costs than those that were spending less | Cloud Computing |
| AiThority - 86% Of Businesses Are Not Prepared For the New Big Google Update | Samsung ranked last place in the ecommerce report, Vitality scored in the bottom 5 in the insurance report and the magic circle firms all ranked below 64th place in the legal report. | Cloud Computing |
| VentureBeat - 65% of execs can’t explain how their AI models make decisions, survey finds | The study, which was commissioned by FICO and conducted by Corinium, found that 33% of executive teams have an incomplete understanding of AI ethics. While IT, analytics, and compliance staff have the highest awareness, understanding across organizations remains patchy | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Ransomware: Too many firms are still willing to pay up if attacked | However, a quarter of respondents fear that their current security procedures might not offer full protection against ransomware threats, describing them as 'somewhat' or 'very' insufficient. | Privacy & Security |
| TechStartups - The global Software as a Service (SaaS) market is projected to reach $305 billion by 2026 | The major drivers of SaaS market size are increased use of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, increasing public and hybrid cloud adoption, and increasing corporate outsourcing | Automation & Productivity |
| Datanami - Appen’s Annual State of AI Report Finds a Shift to Internal Efficiencies | Today, in a time of transition during the pandemic, AI is considered core to survival, and we see this in the results of the survey – increased budgets, more technologists in charge, and increased reliance on external training data providers.” | Artificial Intelligence |
| SDxCentral - Global Telecom Gear Market Nears $100B | The top seven suppliers remained unchanged during the first quarter of 2021, but position of rank and global market share percentages shifted. Huawei is still the global telecom vendor with a 27% market share, but it’s lost nearly a 5% share since early 2020, according to the firm’s analysis. | Telecom |
| VentureBeat - Enterprise AI budgets are up 55% over 2020, Appen says | Overall, survey respondents report budgets ranging from $500,000 to $5 million per year — a 55% increase over 2020. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Report: Where's the value from cloud investments? | PwC noted that goals differed based on an executive's role. CIOs and board members were most focused on innovation (39 percent and 23 percent, respectively), while CFOs and COOs prize improved resilience (25 percent each). | Cloud Computing |
| AiThority - IBM Survey: Pandemic-Induced Digital Reliance Creates Lingering Security Side Effects | With society becoming increasingly accustomed to digital-first interactions, the study found that preferences for convenience often outweighed security and privacy concerns among individuals surveyed – leading to poor choices around passwords and other cybersecurity behaviors. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - 80% of tech could be built outside IT by 2024, thanks to low-code tools | The research firm found that by 2024, 80% of tech products and services will be built by people who are not technology professionals | Apps/DevOps |
| SiliconANGLE - Secrets from the hottest startups in cybersecurity and IT infrastructure | About seven years ago, he started the Elite 80, which is designed to highlight emerging private companies that are well-positioned to be leaders in their respective markets. The list today comprises 80 companies and is designed to keep tabs on the firms that are thriving | IT Management |
| VentureBeat - DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI | For example, you can have a software system that coordinates between separate computer vision, voice processing, NLP, and motor control modules to solve complicated problems that require a multitude of skills. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace: Which productivity suite is best for your business? | Both services include web-based management consoles that are designed for mid-sized business and larger. Those management tools can be intimidating in smaller businesses that don't have a full-time IT department. | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - Pindrop: Only 34% of call centers are prepared to fight fraudsters | How did they do it? By targeting vulnerabilities in contact center Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, allowing fraudsters to bypass the agent and abuse the IVR for intelligence on customer accounts and updates on transaction and loan details. | Privacy & Security |
| Datanami - Data Pros Are Maxed Out: Survey | “The majority (79%) of respondents indicated that their infrastructure and systems are able to scale to meet their increased data volume processing needs, which further highlights that the new problem with scale is focused on team capacity and less on technology capacity.” | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - Digital Twin Consortium pursues open source collaboration | “Open-source collaboration will accelerate the adoption of digital twins that today rely on enabling technologies such as AI, modeling and simulation, IIoT and Edge, 5G, and high-performance compute,” | Digital Twins |
| SDxCentral - Cisco Talos: It’s Time to Move Beyond Ransomware ‘Thoughts and Prayers | This group should include law enforcement agencies like the FBI and U.S. Secret Service, as well as the major players in the intelligence community such as the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the National Security Agency (NSA). | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Customer experience now the top technology priority, but organizations aren't quite ready | "This lag in consensus building negatively impacts time to market. If teams can't move agile and fail fast, they'll be beaten to the punch by competitors who can move through concept, development and release faster," | Customer Experience |
| Analyst IDC: Is that a blip? Nope, it’s some actual external storage growth after 12 months of decline | According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, total external storage capacity (external OEM + ODM direct + server-based storage) shipped was up vastly more, 20.6 per cent Y/Y to 118.8 EB. | Data Storage |
| ZDNet - Best hyperconverged infrastructure systems vendor 2021 | HCI offers a non-trivial upfront investment but, over time, a cost-effective data center alternative for complex IT environments; enterprises that were early adopters of the technology have taken its business value to the bank, big time. | Data Storage |
| Automeme - Business What Are The Top Digital Payment System Technology Trends? | In other words, the “futuristic” payment methods that many had been marketing for years have now slowly started to become the norm of the world we live in. | FinTech |
| AiThority - Broadband Trends Show Spike in Monitoring Network Traffic and Devices for Malicious Behavior | “A whole-home protection solution doesn’t require consumers to install, update, or whitelist programs—they can be truly ‘hands off,’ which is key its success,” | Telecom |
| Blockchain.com Crypto Market Outlook - June 2021 | Blockchain.com's monthly discussion about the crypto market. During the call we’ll cover asset price movements, potential key drivers, developments in the news, and updates from Blockchain.com. | Blockchain |
| The Next Web - Global AI market predicted to reach nearly $1 trillion by 2028 | Driving the growth is mass scale adoption of deep learning techniques and a huge uptick in artificial intelligence hardware production and adoption. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Datanami - New Ascend.io Research Finds 96% of Data Professionals Are at or Over Capacity | The vast majority (93%) of respondents anticipate the number of data pipelines in their organization to increase between now and the end of the year – with 56% projecting the number of data pipelines to increase by more than 50%. | Data & Analytics |
| CompTIA Tech Jobs Report | US technology companies added new workers for the sixth consecutive month in May, and employers across all industries advertised job openings for IT workers at a number not seen in nearly two years | Tech Jobs |
| VentureBeat - TrustArc: 83% of enterprises created formal privacy offices last year | Notably, 44% of the respondents spend anywhere from “most” to “all of their time” on privacy initiatives, TrustArc said. | Privacy & Security |
| Help Net Security - Digital transformation investments a top priority for most CFOs | 71% of CFOs surveyed believe that digital transformation investments are key to their company’s success and 77% said they would help the CIO find a way to fund a new digital transformation project if the initiative delivered strong ROI, | Digital Transformation |
| Computerworld - US IT salaries start to grow as jobs growth remains steady | At its worst, more than 100,000 IT jobs were lost during the depths of the pandemic in spring 2020, though two-thirds of those came back as the year progressed. Still, 2020 ended with 33,200 fewer IT jobs in the US compared to 2019. | Tech Jobs |
| Axway Survey Finds Consumers Frequently Have Concerns About the Privacy and Security of their Data | The study found 82% wish they knew what specific data companies have collected about them. 82% also have concerns that their online data may not be secure, and only 39% of Americans said they know where their online data is stored | Privacy & Security |
| SiliconANGLE - With SASE still on the horizon, hybrid is the current path for software-defined networks | SD-WAN is gaining traction in the enterprise, driven by digital transformation initiatives, the move to network-hungry cloud applications, budget cuts and security concerns, among other factors. | Network Management |
| ZDNet - Even in low-code software development, IT departments still need to hold users' hands | The survey, sponsored and released by Creatio, finds low-code/no-code as key enablers of digital transformation, but users are still stymied by a lack of experience with the solutions. | Automation & Productivity |
| TechStartups - Video conferencing market expected to hit $3.39 billion by 2025 | The government sector comprised 26.5% of overall video conferencing usage, making it the largest contributo | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox | Our analysis highlights how much value can be gained through cloud optimization — whether through system design and implementation, re-architecture, third-party cloud efficiency solutions, or moving workloads to special purpose hardware | Cloud Computing |
| ZDNet - Best identity theft protection & monitoring service 2021 | There are plenty of great options available for reasonable prices that can help to protect your identity, personal information, and credit score. | Privacy & Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Survey finds CISOs are relying on outdated, report-based threat intelligence | The survey wasn’t all doom and gloom: A full 97% of CISOs said they expected their cybersecurity teams would grow in 2021, indicating that cybersecurity awareness is growing and budgets increasing | Privacy & Security |
| Datanami - Qlik and Fortune Detail Historical Financial Impact of Global Crises with Data Analytics Site | “Expanding the scope of our initial visual exploration, Qlik’s unique analytics platform is bringing to life the data behind the story of how crises have impacted markets and sectors throughout recent history.” | Data & Analytics |
| TechRader - Security teams are turning off alerts due to overload | The cybersecurity firm polled 2,303 IT security and SOC decision-makers and found that 70% are utterly stressed with IT threat alerts. | Privacy & Security |
| eSecurity Planet - Best Network Security Tools 2021 | Breach and attack simulation is an adversary emulation solution akin to manual pen testing or red teaming. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Password authentication is a mess. Here’s a system to replace it | A better idea — more secure, more viable, and more practical — may be 3D hand geometry, combined with hand gesture recognition and advanced data analysis based on machine learning. | Privacy & Security |
| AiThority - IPhone Users Shun Trackers: Dialling up Data-Driven Marketing in a Privacy-First World | However, it does reflect one current and growing trend: consumers are looking for more control over their data. Whether app tracking becomes more accepted or not, the advertising ecosystem is changing as consumers increasingly value privacy. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Vectra: 10 most common threats for Azure AD, Office 365 customers | Larger companies triggered fewer detections when compared to smaller companies — that may be because larger companies’ users and administrators perform Office 365 and Azure AD activity more consistently compared to smaller organizations. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Proofpoint: Compromised cloud accounts cost organizations over $6M | In a survey of 600 IT and IT security professionals in the U.S., 75% of respondents said shadow IT — use of cloud applications and services without the approval (or knowledge) of IT — is creating substantial risks for their organizations. | Privacy & Security |
| Network World - Center for Internet Security: 18 security controls you need | “Movement to cloud-based computing, virtualization, mobility, outsourcing, work-from-home, and changing attacker tactics have been central in every discussion,” the new controls document says. | Privacy & Security |
| sdxcentral - Cato VP: Comprises Cripple SASE Competitors | SASE adoption may have accelerated during the pandemic, driven by the shift to remote work and the need for modern remote access technologies, but the product category still has a lot of room to grow, | Cloud Computing |
| Forrester - How New Digital Analytics Funding Will Improve Design | We predicted consolidation three years ago, and it’s happened: Contentsquare bought Clicktale, Glassbox bought SessionCam, and Decibel was just acquired by customer feedback management vendor Medallia. | Data & Analytics |
| SDC Executive - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Drive the Future of Supply Chain Logistics | Nearly half of survey respondents said failure to implement AI would cause them to lose customers, with 44% reporting their company’s bottom line would suffer without it. | Artificial Intelligence |
| TechRepublic - SD-WAN may be the future of the hybrid workplace, study suggests | 79% of businesses are currently using some form of SD-WAN, and by 2026 that number will rise to 92%. Of those, 58% plan to use a hybrid access model to strike a balance between the benefits and drawbacks of public and private SD-WANs. | Network Management |
| CPO Magazine - AI Predicted to Take Over Privacy Tech | More than 40% of privacy tech solutions aimed at ensuring legal compliance are predicted to rely on Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the course of the next three years | Privacy & Security |
| Datanami - Study: Data Crisis Impeding Customer Experience at Leading Global Organizations | Businesses understand that data is critical, but there is an ongoing crisis as firms struggle to capture and operationalize data of sufficient quality to enable their CX objectives, in the context of regulatory pressures. | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - New report finds 67% of applications in the utility sector have serious vulnerabilities | Not all industries reported worsening numbers. The Window of Exposure in manufacturing decreased from 70% to 64% over the last 12 months and the figure dropped from 59% to 52% in the healthcare sector. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - KPMG survey finds execs worry about AI hype — but they can address it | There is clear confidence that AI has the potential to solve some of their industry’s biggest challenges. Yet there are still long-standing hurdles to overcome. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - A buyer’s guide to quantum as a service: Qubits for hire | To give you a better sense of where this market stands at the moment, we've selected five organizations -- some commercial, some academic, and some which blend the two -- which offer some kind of a quantum computing service that incorporates real QCs performing true quantum functions. | Quantum Computing |
| VentureBeat - Less than 30% of business have a plan to combat deepfakes, survey finds | To help promote awareness, Attestiv, a data authentication startup, surveyed U.S.-based professionals about threats to their employers related to altered or manipulated digital media. | Privacy & Security |
| Report finds startling disinterest in ethical, responsible use of AI among business leaders | Almost 70% of respondents could not explain how specific AI model decisions or predictions are made and only 35% said their organization made an effort to use AI in a way that was transparent and accountable. | Artificial Intelligence |
| sdxcentral - Open RAN Could Pump $285B Into Global Economy by 2030 | Open RAN needs more expansive platforms for testing and integration across operators, vendors, and systems integrators; strict, industrywide adherence to fully interoperable standards and implementations to prevent fragmentation; | Network Management |
| SiliconANGLE - Gartner: Tech mergers and acquisitions will hit record high next year | “Instead of making acquisitions or being acquired, tech CEOs will start to consider partnerships and ecosystems to level the playing field against larger companies resulting from consolidation in their markets,” | Tech Trends |
| AiThority - Lack of Skills and Hiring Challenges Biggest Barriers to Enterprise AI Adoption | Companies feel the skills shortage most acutely in the areas of ML modeling and data science (52%), understanding business use cases (49%), and data engineering (42%). | Artificial Intelligence |
| CBS News - U.S. has almost 500,000 job openings in cybersecurity | The need for more web watchmen spans from private businesses to government agencies, experts say, and most of the job openings are in California, Florida, Texas and Virginia. | Tech Jobs |
| ZDNet - AI and data science jobs are hot. Here's what employers want | A new report carried out by research agency Ipsos Mori into the current state of the UK's AI labor market found that close to 110,500 job opening were posted in the past year for roles related to AI and data science | Tech Jobs |
| sdxcentral - Rebounding Optical Market Has Analysts Cautiously Optimistic | While the results were “mostly positive” for public cloud providers, communications service providers, and optical networking equipment and component vendors, the analysts warned of headwinds and uncertainty ahead. | Tech Trends |
| Datanami - Latest Cloud Survey from Denodo Reveals Advanced Workloads Moving to the Cloud | Hybrid-cloud deployment remains the dominant choice, as more than a third of these organizations (35 percent) use this model. Private cloud has shown some vibrant usage, accounting for almost a quarter of all workloads (24 percent), followed by public cloud, which remained almost flat at 16 percent. | Cloud Computing |
| Sales people want to see you, buyers not so much, says LinkedIn | LinkedIn's State of Sales 2021 report is based on a survey of more than 400 buyers and 400 sellers in the US and Canada. At a high level, 48% of respondents said they closed deals of $500,000 or more without ever meeting a buyer in-person. | IT Procurement |
| Datanami - New erwin by Quest Research Reveals Data Governance, Operations and Protection Converging | To this point, the research reveals that 82% of organizations have mostly, if not completely, aligned their data governance and data protection strategies, with 55% of survey respondents citing “data protection” as the term they most closely associate with data governance. | Data & Analytics |
| Platform3 Solutions/EDB - Driver and Impediments to Corporate Technology Change – 2021 and Beyond – THE RESEARCH | Most feel there is a serious waste of money within existing technology (79%) while old data persists (>25% old data in 62%) | IT Management |
| ZDNet - Report highlights top 10 threat detections seen across Microsoft Azure AD and Office 365 | More than 60% of Vectra customers also triggered weekly detections of abnormal Azure AD operations, meaning cyberattackers may be escalating privileges and performing admin-level operations after regular account takeover. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat -Survey finds talent gap is slowing enterprise AI adoption | The O’Reilly report suggests that the second-most significant barrier to AI adoption is a lack of quality data, with 18% of respondents saying their organization is only beginning to realize the importance of high-quality data. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Threatpost - Microsoft, Adobe Exploits Top List of Crooks’ Wish List | A year-long study into the underground market for exploits in cybercriminal forums shows that crooks are salivating for Microsoft bugs, which are far and away the most requested and most sold exploits. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Pandemic lifts U.S. cloud infrastructure spend 29% in Q1 2021 | Amazon Web Services remains the market leader for cloud services at 37%, followed by Microsoft Azure at 23% and Google at 9%, according to Canalys. | Cloud Computing |
| AiThority - Knowledge Management Provides an Edge in Delivering Superior Customer Experiences | “Powered by AI, Verint KM uses machine learning, natural language processing and other emerging technologies to understand and analyze customer requirements, regardless of the channel" | Automation & Productivity |
| SiliconANGLE - Debunking the myth of cloud repatriation | The cloud is coming on-premises to a data center near you, and work is being done to connect clouds to each other while the cloud is also extending to the near and far edge. The bromide “The cloud is not a place, it’s an operating model” is becoming reality. | Cloud Computing |
| CompTIA - Top 10 Challenges Facing Technology in 2021 | From dealing with information security, cyber-attacks, implementing an IT strategy as part of overall business strategy, a widening skills gap, and more— | IT Management |
| Datanami - New Survey Reveals Organizations Conflicted Between Data Privacy and Data Science | Comprised of 100 executives from Fortune 500 companies, the survey found businesses are experiencing a conflict between a data scientist’s need for quick data access and IT’s need to ensure data security and privacy, as 58 percent felt that access restrictions were impacting the productivity of their analytic teams. | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet - Google gives predictions for the future of security | "Defense in depth and the control design we have learned from engineering methodologies will finally catch up to the dynamic nature of software." | Privacy & Security |
| CompTIA - The Best Cloud Computing Certifications of 2021 | There are many career-building cloud computing certifications out there. Any of them would look great on your resume and help you build essential cloud skills. | Training/Certs |
| AiThority - Will On-Premises Software Topple the Cloud Market in 2021? | According to a new report from Dimensional Research and sponsored by Replicated, the current customer demand for on-premises software is equal to that of public cloud, and more than 90 percent of companies surveyed said their on-premises sales continue to rise. | Cloud Computing |
| VentureBeat - New KPMG survey says AI adoption is picking up speed, but is it moving too fast? | Seventy-nine percent of executives say that they have a moderately functional AI strategy while 43% say it’s fully functional at scale. In the industrial manufacturing sector, 93% of executives say AI is at least moderately functional, in the financial services industry it’s 84%, and in technology, it’s 83%. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SDxCentral - Verizon DBIR Finds Ransomware on the Rise | For the 2021 report — Verizon’s 14th DBIR — the operator analyzed 29,207 security incidents, of which 5,258 were confirmed breaches. This is a significant increase on the 3,950 breaches analyzed in last year’s DBIR. | Privacy & Security |
| Blocks & Files: Glory Days are over: The storage hardware startup era has ended | Another factor lowering interest in hardware-focused storage startups is the public cloud, which can throw enormous capacity and compute scale at storage-related problems. | Data Storage |
| NetworkWorld - 9 enterprise-storage startups to watch | The nine startups featured here are developing everything from NVMe disaggregated storage platforms to storage management software for mainframes. | Data Storage |
| SDXCentral - APAC Security Spending to Surge Over $23B in 2021 | The research suggests the banking, telecommunications, and federal and state governments will not only drive the growth, but will make up half of the security spending. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Best website monitoring tool in 2021: Keep your site running | Website monitoring digs deeper into the operation or web applications, particularly whether pages are up and the performance of APIs and interfaces. | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco Cybersecurity Reports | These comprehensive reports have provided detailed accounts of threat landscapes and their effects on organizations, as well as best practices to defend against the adverse impacts of data breaches. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Best VoIP service 2021: Replicate a traditional office phone at home | In this article, we're talking to companies that still have a handset on every desk (but now the desks are at home), still do business by talking on the phone (really, some folks do that), and who route calls and transfer to extensions (which now have to traverse the planet instead of the building). | Automation & Productivity |
| VentureBeat - The four most common fallacies about AI | These fallacies give a false sense of confidence about how close we are to achieving artificial general intelligence, AI systems that can match the cognitive and general problem-solving skills of humans. | Artificial Intelligence |
| VentureBeat - Gartner says composable data and analytics key to digital transformation | Overall, Gartner analysts saw pressing trends around accelerating change, operationalizing business value, and — increasingly — “distributed everything.” | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconANGLE - Cyber protection: the hot new shared space of business data continuity | In a word, we’d rate the cyber protection market as frothy. We are seeing new specialized tool vendors emerging into this market from both sides, whether for cloud-native data backup or for IoT device-level security management. | Privacy & Security |
| Despite $20B Business Intelligence Market, Users Still Prefer the Humble Spreadsheet, Says Report | The survey found that, despite a $20 billion Business Intelligence market, 84% of professionals prefer the familiarity of spreadsheets like Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel for last-mile analysis—64% of whom have access to a BI tool but still opt for spreadsheets. | Data & Analytics |
| AiThority - 6 May: It’s World Password Day. Leading IT Experts Share their Insights | We all know passwords are supposedly unique and not to be shared with anyone. Yet, nearly 1 in 5 (17.5 percent) users share their work device password with either spouse or child! | Privacy & Security |
| Indeed - Tech Hubs Held on to Technology Jobs During Pandemic | On April 23, 2021, job postings on Indeed were only 5% above pre-pandemic baselines in the big tech hubs compared with 24% above baseline in all other metropolitan area | Tech Jobs |
| CSO - 8 cybersecurity startups to watch | If you want to know what’s new in cybersecurity, watch what the startup vendors are doing. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Best network monitoring tool in 2021: Top expert picks | Keeping track of ever-expanding networks is getting more and more challenging, especially as hybrid and cloud-only networks are growing in popularity. | Network Management |
| Matt Turck - Introducing the MAD (ML, AI, Data) Public Company Index | Readers of this blog know that we have been tracking the data ecosystem since 2012, through annual landscapes | Data & Analytics |
| NetworkWorld - Tech employers focus on training for IT pros | Nearly 80% of IT HR professionals employed at such companies rated re-skilling or up-skilling as “more important” for the coming year, in contrast to 68% at medium-sized firms and 52% at smaller businesses. | Training/Cert |
| SiliconANGLE - Predicting the unpredictable: These enterprise networking trends will define 2021 | Companies now know that it’s a need – not a want – to invest in artificial intelligence-powered networking tools. | Network Management |
| CompTIA - The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: 2021 Help Desk Trends | Recent research shows that 40% of businesses plan to make IT a core competency, suggesting that a more strategic approach is taking place of the tactical one. | Training/Cert |
| VentureBeat - Acorio: Digital transformation was the top business initiative in 2021 | Digital transformation grew 20% year-over-year, becoming the top business initiative in 2021 with 79% of organizations working on it, over service management, which was at only 64% this year, | Digital Transformation |
| SiliconANGLE - A digital skills gap signals a rebound in tech services spending | It depicts chief information officer and IT buyer responses to expected IT spend for each quarter of 2021 vs 2020. And you can see here a steady quarterly improvement, leading to our forecast of 6% to 7% growth in 2021. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Cloud infrastructure spending grew 35% to $41.8B in Q1 2021 | Canalys defines “cloud infrastructure services” as companies that provide both infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service. | Cloud Computing |
| CSO - SASE is coming, but adoption will be slow (especially for large enterprises) | By 2024 the analyst firm expects that 30% of enterprises will adopt cloud-delivered secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access (ZTNA) and branch office firewall as a service (FWaaS) capabilities from the same vendor. | Cloud Computing |
| Gartner says low-code, RPA, and AI driving growth in ‘hyperautomation’ | Gartner is expecting significant growth for technology that enables organizations to rapidly identify, vet, and automate as many processes as possible and says it will become a “condition of survival” for enterprises | Automation & Productivity |
| Cisco - 2021 Security Outcomes Study: Timely Incident Response as a Business Enabler | By interviewing 4,800 security professionals, the importance of timely incident response became a clear gauge, not only of security success, but also business enablement. | Privacy & Security |
| Naked Security - The State of Ransomware 2021 | The bad news, of course, is that “only 37% got hit” is the the good news, because “more than a third” is still a disappointingly large proportion of those surveyed. | Privacy & Security |
| Forbes - AI 50: America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies | Even as applications of machine learning and perception platforms become commonplace, a thick layer of hype and fuzzy jargon clings to AI-enabled software. | Artificial Intelligence |
| ZDNet - Malware and ransomware gangs have found this new way to cover their tracks | "But the vast majority of what we detect day-to-day in malicious TLS traffic is from initial-compromise malware: loaders, droppers and document-based installers reaching back to secured web pages to retrieve their installation packages," it said. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Imperva: Bad bots polluting web traffic pose security risks to websites | Last year, 34% of all login attempts originated from malicious bots – those that closely mimic human behavior and are harder to detect and stop. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Only 13% of organizations are delivering on their data strategy, survey finds | Every chief data officer interviewed for the study ascribed importance to democratizing analytics and machine learning capabilities | Data & Analytics |
| CompTIA - IT Salaries: Where the Money’s At | In the United States, the average annual salary for an IT pro is $120,491, and those in decision-making roles earn an average salary of $138,200. | Tech Jobs |
| Forbes - 3 Key Cybersecurity Trends To Know For 2021 (and On ...) | Three trends to focus on include 1) the expanding cyber-attack surface (remote work, IoT supply chain), 2) Ransomware as a cyber weapon of choice, 3) threats to critical infrastructure via ICS, OT/IT cyber-threat convergence. | Privacy & Security |
| cybernews - We may be closer to cyberwar than ever before, study about nation-states concludes | The study, sponsored by HP, delves into the publicly available information (such as whistle-blowers and insider leaks reported in the press) and analyses more than 200 known cyber incidents between 2019-2021. | Privacy & Security |
| White House to Seek Industry Input on New Software Security Rules, NSC Official Says | Standards for those mechanisms will likely come from NIST, which Greene said is good at engaging with the private sector. | Privacy & Security |
| Compliance Week - Data breach disclosures drop in 2020, report says | The report also found that, since 2011, 42 percent of cyber-security incidents disclosed have not specified the type of attack used to penetrate the company’s systems | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - Enterprise software, devices to drive 2021 IT spending to $4.1T | Device demand will show the most growth, at 14%, followed by enterprise software, at 10.8%. | Tech Trends |
| IoT for All - 10 IoT Trends to Disrupt the Tech World in 2021 | The International Data Corporation Global IoT Guide shows that IoT revenue is growing at 8.2% year-on-year to $ 742 billion by 2020, down from a 14.9% growth forecast in November 2019. | IoT/Mobility |
| AiThority - Digital Twins Named as the Emerging Tech to Disrupt Multiple Industries | More industry sectors now recognize that by drawing on complementary tech and resources such as AI, the Internet of Things and ‘big data’, Digital Twins can build new products – and get them right first time. | Emerging Tech |
| AiThority - Businesses at Risk With Two Thirds of Data Backed up on Unsecure Storage Devices | The National Cyber Security Centre’s advice is to ensure that all data gets backed up multiple times per day to the ‘3-2-1 Backup Rule’. | Data Storage |
| FIWARE -The Business Reporter March 2021 Smart Cities Report is out | In this edition, Red Hat (p. 3), HOPU (p. 10), and WiseTown (p. 5) discuss topics from evaluating smart city platforms, decision-making support systems, and the digitalization of the public sector to smart ports in smart cities. | Smart Cities |
| Flexera - 2021 IT Executive Trends – Revealing Their Top Priorities | Top priorities for IT teams in 2021 are digital transformation, cybersecurity and cloud/cloud migration. | IT Management |
| Spectralogic - Data Storage Outlook Report 2021 | The document covers the current and future strategies and technologies designed to protect the world’s growing repository of data now and for generations to come. | Data Storage |
| ZDNet - Data, analytics, machine learning, and AI in healthcare in 2021 | Today, the results of a new survey focusing precisely on the adoption of AI in healthcare are being unveiled. | Healthcare Tech |
| Maruti Techlabs10 Key Technologies That Enable Big Data Analytics For Your Business | Let us explore how small businesses can benefit from data analytics and learn about the technologies that enable big data analytics for businesses. | Data & Analytics |
| MIT Technology Review - 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021 | This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies. Some, such as mRNA vaccines, are already changing our lives, while others are still a few years off. | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - MIT study finds ‘systematic’ labeling errors in popular AI benchmark datasets | The quantities ranged from just over 2,900 errors in the ImageNet validation set to over 5 million errors in QuickDraw, a Google-maintained collection of 50 million drawings contributed by players of the game Quick, Draw! | Artificial Intelligence |
| AiThority - MPLS Usage Drops by 24% in Two Years as SD-WAN Adoption in Enterprise WAN Ramps up | According to the survey, increasing site capacity and using alternative access solutions are key motivators for WAN managers pursuing SD-WAN, and 40% of respondents prefer a co-managed SD-WAN solution | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - What is DataOps, and why it’s a top trend | The term DataOps emerged seven years ago to refer to best practices for getting proper analytics, and research firm Gartner calls it a major trend encompassing several steps in the data lifecycle. | Data & Analytics |
| Smart Cities Dive - The smart city tech most at risk for cyberattacks: report | But rather than simply not invest in new technologies for fear of being hacked, Post said cities should make sure they have in-house cybersecurity expertise, especially in their IT departments. | Smart Cities |
| VentureBeat - 8 ways AI is transforming talent management in 2021 | While 24% of companies are currently using AI for recruitment, that number is expected to grow, with 56% reporting they plan to adopt AI in the next year. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SiliconANGLE - Tech spending powers the roaring ’20s as cloud leads the charge | We believe tech spending will increase 7% to 8% in 2021, but we don’t expect investments in cloud computing to attenuate as workers head back to the office | Tech Trends |
| Datanami - A ‘Glut’ of Innovation Spotted in Data Science and ML Platforms | The DSML market is young and vibrant, and there is ample revenue and funding opportunities for companies that differentiate themselves on the product side | Data & Analytics |
| SecurityMEA - 29% of malware captured previously unknown finds HP’s Quarterly Threat Insights Report | 88% of malware was delivered by email into users’ inboxes, in many cases having bypassed gateway filters. It took 8.8 days, on average, for threats to become known by hash to antivirus engines | Privacy & Security |
| AiThority - New Cisco Research Reveals Collaboration, Cloud, and Security are IT’s Top Challenges | To address these challenges, 56% of IT decision makers are investing in cloud applications, 56% in network security, 51% in cloud security, and 45% in multi-cloud infrastructure in 2021-2022. | IT Management |
| ZDNet - API security becomes a ‘top’ priority for enterprise players | According to the report, 91% of IT professionals say API security should be considered a priority in the next two years, especially as over 70% of enterprise firms are estimated to use over 50 APIs. | Privacy & Security |
| Bernard Marr - The Six Biggest Blockchain Trends Everyone Should Know About In 2021 | Blockchain is valuable for any sort of transaction where values and timestamps need to be securely recorded, so it is of particular interest to financial services companies. | Blockchain |
| CompTIA - 16 Best IT Support Jobs in 2021 | With a seemingly endless list of job titles in this field, the CompTIA research team has compiled a list of the top 16 IT support job roles, ranked by number of job openings in 2020 | IT Jobs |
| Technative - Five Things on our Data and AI Radar for 2021 | The Time is Now to Adopt Responsible Machine Learning | Tech Trends |
| AiThority - Latest Survey: NTT Reveals Only 20.6% of Digital Transformation Efforts Are Optimized | 92.4% of technology teams agree their overall technology strategy is aligned, either fully (49.8%) or partially (42.6%) to the organization’s business strategy needs | Digital Transformation |
| VentureBeat - Why Accenture lists ‘digital twins’ as top-five technology trend in 2021 | The promise of digital twins lies in improving collaboration and workflows across different types of groups — like product design, sales, and maintenance teams — and engineering disciplines. | Automation & Productivity |
| NetworkWorld - Top enterprise data center trends you need to know | Enterprise data-center pros are embracing cloud services, growing high-speed networks, enabling remote workforces, and adopting automation and AI. | Network Management |
| Datanami - New Survey Finds More than Two-Thirds of Companies Leave Valuable Data Untapped | According to the study, 44 percent of respondents say that key data is not yet usable for decision making and 68 percent say additional business insights can be extracted from existing data if they only had more time. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - State of the Edge report projects edge computing will reach $800B by 2028 | As organizations embrace digital business transformation initiatives, it’s becoming more apparent that data needs to be processed and analyzed at the edge in near real time. | Edge Computing |
| AiThority - Top Trends in Data Science And Big Data | Today, most of the big companies are using data to create better customer experiences and generate more profits. | Data & Analytics |
| VentureBeat - KPMG: AI adoption is accelerating in the pandemic | It finds AI technologies are most likely to be moderately to fully employed in industrial manufacturing (93%), financial services (84%), technology (83%), retail (81%), life sciences (77%), health care (67%), and government (61%) sectors. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Gartner Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021 | From artificial intelligence to small data and graph technology, data and analytics leaders should think about leveraging these trends. | Data & Analytics |
| NetworkWorld - Enterprise networking trends in 2021: Preparing for the new normal | From upgrading to Wi-Fi 6, to implementing SD-WAN, to shifting network management to the cloud, Brandon explains what steps IT teams can take to make the transition back to the office seamless for in-person and remote employees alike. | Network Management |
| CSO - Cybersecurity in 2021: Stopping the madness | Can any software development shop say with confidence that it can withstand such a sophisticated, concerted effort? | Privacy & Security |
| AiThority - Top Trends in In-House IT Security | Another follow-up fact is that besides preventing internal security threats, companies are looking forward to automating compliance with state law and regulations | Privacy & Security |
| EWEEK - Top ETL, Data Integration Tool Vendors | As enterprises move to more advanced business intelligence and data analytics—including systems that rely on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), ETL functionality is crucial. | Data & Analytics |
| AiThority - Top Trends In IT Security And Networking In 2021 | On the other hand, network engineers are now expected to have the skill-set of automation tools as well, along with networking knowledge. | Network Management |
| VentureBeat - Trend Micro: Remote work drove high-risk email threats up 32% in 2020 | More specifically, the company reported a double-digital increase in detections spanning malware, credential theft, and phishing emails. | Privacy & Security |
| Blocks & Files - Comparing Nvidia A100 GPU storage vendors is a pain | Unless they use exactly the same configuration components and connectivity, quoted throughput numbers are effectively meaningless for comparison purposes. | Data Storage |
| SiliconANGLE - Software-as-a-service attack, on-prem survival and redefining cloud | In this Breaking Analysis, we’ll pick out a few of the more recent themes from this month and share our thoughts on some major enterprise software players, the future of on-prem and a review of our take on cloud — what cloud will look like in the 2020s. | Cloud Computing |
| The Hacker News - Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware | Universities, small companies that have small security teams are an easy target. File sharing and an extensive database make the penetration simple for attackers. | Privacy & Security |
| VentureBeat - ‘Antivirus is dead’: The rising enterprise security threats for 2021 and how to protect against them | Beyond vaccine development, nation-state actors also targeted enterprises across sectors for intellectual property (IP). | Privacy & Security |
| Defence lists cyber mitigation as key factor for building ethical AI | In the report, participants have jointly created five key considerations -- trust, responsibility, governance, law, traceability -- that they believe are essential during the development of any ethical AI project. | Artificial Intelligence |
| InfoWorld - 7 data science predictions for 2021 | After a trying 2020, signs point to data science becoming an enterprise-wide capability that impacts every line of business and functional department in the coming year. | Data & Analytics |
| World Economic Forum - The post-pandemic future of work - according to 3,000 CEOs from around the world | Agility, technology and regulation are key priorities for chief executives post-pandemic, IBM finds in its survey of 3,000 global CEOs. | Automation & Productivity |
| NetworkWorld - Survey: Native SD-WAN monitoring tools are not enough | However, 91% of enterprises also monitor or plan to monitor their SD-WAN environments with a supplemental network monitoring tool, and 41% say third-party monitoring is essential to network operations. | Network Management |
| Datanami - ibi Survey Reveals Acceleration of Data and Analytics Initiatives in 2021 | 44 percent of respondents plan to increase spending on data in 2021 and 38 percent will spend about the same as they did in 2020, totaling 82 percent investing as much or more in 2021. | Data & Analytics |
| Business 2 Community - 40+ Terrifying Cybersecurity Statistics You Need to Know for 2021 | These cybersecurity statistics from the last 5 years will outline contemporary cybersecurity trends and provide a preview of what is being predicted for the future of cybersecurity. | Privacy & Security |
| CLAROTY BIANNUAL ICS RISK & VULNERABILITY REPORT: 2H 2020 | 76% of disclosed ICS vulnerabilities do not require authentication for exploitation. | Privacy & Security |
| TechStartups - Top 10 startups that have already reached unicorn status this year — Expert provides insight into 2021 trends | After crunching the data, the team at Tipalti has identified 24 startups that have already reached unicorn status this year. They also provide insights into why and what we can expect this year for business investments… | Tech Trends |
| VentureBeat - Canalys: Cloud infrastructure spending grew 32% to $39 billion in Q4 2020 | "This makes AWS larger than Salesforce.com and SAP combined. Equally impressive is that AWS delivered over half of the company’s operating profit.” | Cloud Computing |
| VentureBeat - Case studies of successful AI startups | Out of the hundred startups, four have made exits, with three going public and one being acquired by Facebook. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SiliconANGLE - These four key drivers will cause tech spending to roar back in 2021 | But hiring freezes and freezing new deployments continue to trend down. New IT deployments continue their uptick and layoffs continue to moderate. Hiring is also up. All good signs. | Tech Trends |
| NetworkWorld - Study finds Google has the fastest overall cloud platform | Cockroach Labs ranks Google cloud tops for overall performance, Microsoft Azure for the best storage, and AWS for the best latency response. | Cloud Computing |
| AiThority - Top Security Experts Provide Insights on National Data Privacy Day | "We need more voices in our debate, outside the legal community, and within and across businesses to make real change and do right by consumer privacy.” | Privacy & Security |
| AiThority - Next Pathway Research: 65% of Companies Report Cloud Migration Is a Top Priority | Next Pathway polled nearly 1,000 IT decision makers on their company’s status in the cloud migration process and what they perceive as benefits and challenges. | Cloud Computing |
| Data Storage Solutions Review - The 12 Best Public Cloud Storage Services for 2021 | Solutions Review’s listing of the best Public Cloud Storage Services is an annual mashup of products that best represent current market conditions, according to the crowd | Data Storage |
| SiliconANGLE - Big shifts are coming in the new era of the distributed cloud | They discussed the role of third-party vendors in managing cloud complexity, the rise of specialized clouds, the evolving role of data and the way enterprises will need to make critical choices in the coming year. | Cloud Computing |
| 2021 is the year AR commerce becomes an Actual Reality | The study found that 63% of consumers believe AR will transform their shopping experience and 61% indicated that they would prefer to make purchases on sites that offer AR technology. | Augmented Realty |
| CIODive - Gartner: Worldwide IT spend will recover to $3.9T in 2021 | The firm includes categories like communication services, devices, infrastructure software and security software within the remote work IT spend projection. | IT Management |
Forrester/Jay McBain - What I See Coming For The Channel: 2021 | Customer demand (especially medium, midmarket, public sector, and enterprise) later in the year shifted to automation, cloud acceleration, customer/employee experience, and e-commerce/marketplaces | Channel Trends |
| AiThority - 50 Industry Specialists Make Predictions on the Role of Emerging Technologies in 2021 | The article features insights-driven predictions from the industry specialists who belong to the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning engineering, data science, business intelligence, cybersecurity, mobile automation, IoT automation, Cloud computing and storage. | Emerging Tech |
| AiThority - Popular AR VR Tools of 2021 | In the COVID-19 era, AR and VR tools seem to be expanding at an incredible speed; from shopping to entertainment and gaming | AR/VR |
| Esentire - 2021 Drops the Cyber from Cybercrime | Mark Stangster - But cybercrime isn’t going away--it’s only getting more ingrained | Privacy & Security |
| DocuSign Alternatives: Review of Industry Popular 5 | DocuSign had been an industry leader for awhile. But what other popular alternatives to DocuSign are there? | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - AI set to replace humans in cybersecurity by 2030, says Trend Micro | The research was compiled from interviews with 500 IT directors and managers, CIOs and CTOs and does not look good for their career prospects. | Privacy & Security |
| SiliconANGLE - Where’s cloud computing headed this year? The experts lay down their cards | Edge computing, vertical clouds, a profusion of multicloud options and the end of on-premises backup. | Cloud Computing |
| Ericisson - My IoT predictions for 2021: Smarter tech will make better business | Among the IoT predictions ranging from digital healthcare, remote learning, connected manufacturing, and micro-mobility to sustainability, the common denominator is the overall accelerated adoption of wireless technologies. | IoT/Mobility |
| SiliconANGLE - By 2025, the cloud will be the key driver of business innovation | Although some legacy IT such as wireless access points or mainframe computers will not move to the cloud, many other applications and workloads will be delivered via cloud, for example cloud servers, storage and networking. | Cloud Computing |
| Top Challenges that CIOs Faced: Key Findings and Resolutions for 2021 | Even as the enterprises were trying to find ways to fend away growing cybersecurity concerns, a majority of the CIOs were finding it extremely hard to train IT staff (32%) against supporting the remote workforce (39%). | IT Management |
| Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 | Distributed cloud, AI engineering, cybersecurity mesh and composable business drive some of the top trends for 2021. | Tech Trends |
| TechNative - Smart Cities: Betting the Future of Public Safety in the Cloud | The foundations of these cities are 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) / cloud | Smart Cities |
| M-Files - 6 Hot Take Information Management Trends in 2021 | According to Nitro, workers spend an average of 50% of their time creating and preparing documents. Yet, document issues account for more than 21% of daily productivity loss. | Automation & Productivity |
| SiliconANGLE - Fast, fused and deep: CES sheds new light on 5G, AI, cybersecurity and digital currencies | At the start of a new year, the Consumer Electronics Show offers an opportunity to gaze at technology’s distant horizon and take measure of what may be coming over the ridge. | Tech Trends |
| Gartner - 2 Megatrends Dominate the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2020 | While five new AI solutions enter this year’s Hype Cycle for AI, the democratization of AI and the industrialization of AI megatrends dominate the AI landscape in 2020 | Artificial Intelligence |
| TechTarget - Enterprise data storage 2020 Products of the Year finalists | The field of entrants in our 19th annual Products of the Year contest has been reduced to 47 contenders vying for gold, silver and bronze status in five data storage categories | Data Storage |
| Blocks & Files - IT infrastructure budgets: Cloud up, On-Prem down | Spending on public cloud IT infrastructure increased 13.1 per cent year over year in 3Q20, reaching $13.3bn | Cloud Computing |
| Cyberark - People, Process and Technology: Six Best Practices for Cloud Least Privilege | A recent ESG survey found that maintaining consistent identity and access management (IAM) controls across public and private clouds is the No. 1 challenge for IT and cybersecurity professionals charged with IAM tasks. | Privacy & Security |
| Bright Pattern Notes Companies Taking New Innovative Approaches to CX Since the COVID-19 Pandemic | In line with recent research from McKinsey and IBM, Bright Pattern sees companies finding smarter ways to operate, increasing digital and mobile channel adoption | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - 2021 Technology trend review, part 1: Blockchain, Cloud, Open Source | Blockchain's DeFi-ning moment. Cloud, Kubernetes, and GraphQL. Open source is winning, open source creators are losing. A reality check on key technological drivers for the new decade. | Tech Trends |
| Forbes - A Cybersecurity Checklist For 2021: 6 Ways To Help You Protect Yourself In Coming Year | Learn: It all starts by having a risk management perspective. Learn what you need to do from open sources | Privacy & Security |
| TechRepublic - 10 fastest-growing cybersecurity skills to learn in 2021 | People with experience in application development security are in the highest demand but cloud expertise commands the biggest paycheck. | Privacy & Security |
| Forbes - Seven Data Management Trends You Can Leverage In 2021 | Yet only about 1 in every 4 companies can claim to have a well-defined data management policy and structure. | Data & Analytics |
| Top 7 DBP Predictions for 2021 | The DBP-Institute team brainstormed and came out with Top 7 Data and Analytics predictions for 2021! | Data & Analytics |
| DZone Cloud - Top Ten Technology Trends For 2021 | This article summarizes the top ten technology trends common across the reports of companies like Gartner, Forrester, Bain, and Deloitte. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Blockchain in 2021 is a tale of two speeds | The pandemic has resulted in both acceleration and deceleration, depending on the type of blockchain project. Here are Forrester's five key predictions for 2021. | Blockchain |
| Threatpost - 2021 Cybersecurity Trends: Bigger Budgets, Endpoint Emphasis and Cloud | Insider threats are redefined in 2021, the work-from-home trend will continue define the threat landscape and mobile endpoints become the attack vector of choice, according 2021 forecasts. | Privacy & Security |
| Datanami - 2021 Big Data and AI Executive Survey | NewVantage Partners, strategic advisors in data-driven business transformation to Fortune 1000 companies and industry leaders, has released the results of its 9th annual survey of senior corporate c-executives | Data & Analytics |
| Legal Tech’s Predictions for Legal Technology Innovation in 2021 | Attorneys and legal technologists see 2021 pushing the trends brought on by remote work even further, with AI and analytics continuing to grab attention | Document Management |
| The Financial Express - Tech trends in 2021 | Businesses in 2021 and beyond will develop into efficient workplaces for everybody who believes in the power of technology | Tech Trends |
| Fierce Electronics - From sensors to smart cities, the biggest tech trends in 2021 and beyond | Smart Cities: Reaching an inflection point that will drive IoT commercialization | Smart Cities |
| BBC News - Tech Trends in 2021 | Efforts are accelerating to curb the power of Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google owner Alphabet. | Tech Trends |
| Aithority - Crystal Gaze 2021: Predictions on the Role of Automation and Cloud Computing in Cyberthreat Intelligence | Next year we expect to see malware that not only spreads across networks but looks for signs that an infected device is for corporate use (such as evidence of VPN usage). | Privacy & Security |
| Venturebeat - The DeanBeat: Predictions for gaming in 2021 | Apple’s IDFA change will hobble targeted advertising for iOS games | Gaming |
| Silicon Angle - Predictions 2021: Here’s what’s coming in enterprise technology | The percentage of remote workers settles in at 34% by year-end 2021 – double pre-COVID levels | Tech Trends |
| Geekwire - 2021 Predictions | 2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead | Tech Trends |
| ZDNet - 2021 outlook: Here are the technologies, questions that will matter | Think labs, think prototyping and think innovating on the flow. Perhaps 2021 brings a more developed augmented and virtual reality playbook for enterprises. | Tech Trends |
| Threatpost - Inbox Attacks: The Miserable Year (2020) That Was | Reflecting on 2020’s record-breaking year of spam and inbox threats. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Data-driven 2021: Predictions for a new year in data, analytics and AI | Here's a roundup of many of the 2021 predictions, broken down into the topics that garnered the most conjecture. | Data & Analytics |
| The Enterprisers Project - 14 tech predictions for 2021 and beyond | IT and tech leaders look at the road ahead and predict what's next for remote work, AI, cybersecurity, and more | Tech Trends |
| ZDNet - Five Microsoft technologies to watch in 2021 | MetaOS is meant to be a single mobile platform that provides a consistent set of work and play services across devices. | Automation & Productivity |
| ZDNet - Automation nation: 9 robotics predictions for 2021 | The lessons of 2020 can help us read the tea leaves for the priorities and trends in the robotics sector in 2021. | Automation & Productivity |
| Venturebeat - 9 trends in enterprise database technology | Now databases are changing. Their focus is shifting and they’re accepting more responsibilities and offering smarter answers. In short, they’re expanding and taking over more and more of the stack | Data Analytics |
| ZDNet - 10 most 'disruptive' information technology jobs in the year ahead | Artificial intelligence, DevOps-related skills drawing the highest premium, analysis of almost two million job openings finds. | Tech Jobs |
| Aithority - IBM Study: Majority of Surveyed Companies are Not Prepared for IT Needs of the Future, Say U.S. and U.K. Tech Leaders | Of those, many are moving at an aggressive pace — the study reveals that 53% of respondents are aggressively pursuing a public cloud strategy, 48% a hybrid cloud strategy and 45% a private cloud strategy. | Cloud Computing |
| Forbes Cybersecurity Awards 2020: Corellium, The Tiny Startup Driving Apple Crazy | Our inaugural Forbes Cybersecurity Awards celebrate their achievements. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - Outsourcing in the 2020s: cloud and Covid shake up contracting | Cloud and automation 'now effectively table stakes for all transformations,' | Automation & Productivity |
| Venturebeat - Here’s what the ‘new normal’ remote sales stack looks like | Close to nine in 10 decision makers now say these new commercial and go-to-market sales practices will be a fixture throughout 2021 and possibly beyond. | Automation & Productivity |
| SiliconAngle - Gartner probes strengths and weaknesses of top cloud database players | As the Gartner reports highlight, the cloud database market is being driven by the need for transactional capabilities meshed with analytics. | Data & Analytics |
| SiliconAngle - Cloud momentum and CIO optimism point to a 4% rise in 2021 tech spending | In this Breaking Analysis we’ll share new spending data from our partners at Enterprise Technology Research and take a preliminary look at which sectors and companies are showing momentum heading into next year. | Cloud Computing |
| Aithority - IAITAM 2021 FORECAST | The International Association of IT Asset Managers (IAITAM), the leading authority on IT Asset Management (ITAM), is now looking ahead to what it expects in the new year of 2021. | Tech Trends |
| Blocks and Files - Storageless storage is the ‘answer’ to Kubernetes data challenges | “I firmly believe that the move away from storage-bound data to storageless data will be one of the largest watershed events the tech industry has ever witnessed.” | Data Storage |
| Cloud momentum and CIO optimism point to a 4% rise in 2021 tech spending | We now expect a 3% to 5% increase in 2021 technology spending, roughly double our previously forecasted growth rate. | Tech Trends |
| Threatpost - Cloud is King: 9 Software Security Trends to Watch in 2021 | Researchers predict software security will continue to struggle to keep up with cloud and IoT in the new year. | Cloud Computing |
| Forrester - Channel Software Tech Stack 2020 | The channel technology stack is a group of technologies that firms leverage to plan with, find, recruit, onboard, develop, enable, incentivize, cosell with, comarket with, manage, measure, and report on partners | Channel Strategy |
| ZDNet - Forecast 2021: Artificial Intelligence during COVID and beyond | The pandemic has created an unusual opportunity for a technology aimed at efficiency and lean operations. | Artificial Intelligence |
| Thinkers360 Predictions Series – 2021 Predictions for Quantum Computing | The 2021 Predictions for Quantum Computing are part of a series to provide actionable insights for business and technology executives. | Quantum Computing |
| Deloitte: MLOps is about to take off in the enterprise | Deloitte Consulting published a report today that suggests a golden age of AI is in the offing, assuming organizations can implement and maintain a consistent approach to machine learning operations (MLOps) | Artificial Intelligence |
| Most businesses are tracking customers yet don’t tell them | It discovered that three in five (62%) of businesses do not inform customers about third-party ad trackers collecting their data. | Privacy & Security |
| ZDNet - AR Outlook: Why 2020 was prelude to hot 2021 AR sector | "In 2021, AR/VR will continue to remain important as society continues to focus on generating economic growth while avoiding health risks." | AR/VR |
| 5G laps 4G milestones, sets stage for massive enterprise data growth | In the last quarter alone, 29 new 5G networks went live, and the total number of networks is expected to grow to 180 worldwide by the end of 2020. | Telecom |
| Sizing the AI software market: Not as big as investors expect but still $37 billion by 2025 | The velocity of demand for AI technology, tools, platforms, and applications draws parallels to the demand for cloud. | Artificial Intelligence |
| SiliconAngle - As AWS storage revenue nears $10B, legacy players feel the heat | The storage business as we know it has changed forever. | Data Storage |
| Help Net Security - More than half of organizations don’t have an insider risk response plan | “Our findings show that organizations are not even measuring the efficacy of their insider risk mitigation programs." | Privacy & Security |
| Forbes - Bernard Marr | The 5 Biggest Cloud Computing Trends In 2021 | Cloud Computing |
| ML Deployment Woes Persist | Still, 83 percent of organizations said they are pressing on with ML development, increasing budget and hiring more data scientists | Data & Analytics |
| ZDNet | Top 8 trends shaping digital transformation in 2021 | Digital Transformation |
| StealthLabs | Top 10 Cybersecurity Trends in 2021 and Beyond! | Privacy & Security |
| SWZD - The 2021 State of IT | The Annual Report on IT Budgets and Tech Trends | Tech Trends |
| InformationWeek | Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends for 2021 | Data & Analytics |
| Security Boulevard | Top 10 Cyber Security Trends to Watch out for in 2021 | Privacy & Security |
| Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 | Distributed cloud, AI engineering, cybersecurity mesh and composable business drive some of the top trends for 2021. | Tech Trends |
| INDVSTRVS | Top Data Trends and Predictions for 2021 | Data & Analytics |
| Record Levels of Software Bugs Plague Short-Staffed IT Teams in 2020 | A trio of recent reports tracking software vulnerabilities over the past year underscore the challenges of patch management and keeping attacks at bay. | Privacy & Security |
| Tale of the Tape 2020 is out now, and guess what – the future is rosy | The TSC report cites the annual tape media shipment report for 2019, released by the three LTO Program technology providers – HPE, IBM and Quantum | Data Storage |
| Lack of Data On-boarding Solutions “Key Pain Point” Across Industries | Flatfile, the leading data on-boarding platform, today unveiled results from the first of its kind survey in a new report, “The State of Data On-boarding”. | Data & Analytics |
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