Feature Articles

August 06, 2024
Micah Adams

The Crowdstrike outage has created no shortage of commentary, speculation, and armchair analysis on exactly how such a massive failure could occur. The level of discussion and scrutiny is warranted, most agree this is probably the largest IT outage in history ... The knee jerk response of a "How could someone possibly let this happen" is both clueless and misinformed ...

August 06, 2024

As organizations strive to capitalize on their ever-growing data trove to scale their operations and improve business outcomes, only 17% of data ingested or landed consists of emergent data types, and only 9% of that data is processed or analyzed, according to a new report from BMC, Putting the "Ops" in DataOps: Success factors for operationalizing data ...

August 01, 2024

The frequency and severity of data center outages remain mainly unchanged from 2023 or show small improvements, according to the Global Data Center Survey from Uptime Institute ...

August 01, 2024

At least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs or unclear business value, according to Gartner ...

July 31, 2024

More enterprises are implementing hybrid cloud management platforms as they diversify their IT environments to overcome the limits of relying solely on public clouds, according to a new research report published by ISG ...

July 29, 2024

Organizations with a formal observability strategy are 3.5x more likely to detect disruptive incidents quickly compared to those without such a strategy, according to the 2024/25 State of the Network Study from VIAVI Solutions in partnership with TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group™ ...

July 25, 2024

The 2024 State of the Data Center Report from CoreSite shows that although C-suite confidence in the economy remains high, a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment has many business leaders proceeding with caution when it comes to their IT and data ecosystems, with an emphasis on cost control and predictability, flexibility and risk management ...

July 17, 2024

While nearly all data leaders surveyed are building generative AI applications, most don't believe their data estate is actually prepared to support them, according to the State of Reliable AI report from Monte Carlo Data ...

July 15, 2024

The average customer-facing incident takes nearly three hours to resolve (175 minutes) while the estimated cost of downtime is $4,537 per minute, meaning each incident can cost nearly $794,000, according to new research from PagerDuty ...

July 12, 2024

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 8, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses AutoCon with the conference founders Scott Robohn and Chris Grundemann ...

July 10, 2024

Containers are a common theme of wasted spend among organizations, according to the State of Cloud Costs 2024 report from Datadog. In fact, 83% of container costs were associated with idle resources ...

July 10, 2024

Companies prefer a mix of on-prem and cloud environments, according to the 2024 Global State of IT Automation Report from Stonebranch. In only one year, hybrid IT usage has doubled from 34% to 68% ...

June 27, 2024

Almost all (97%) of respondents state that a reliable, resilient Internet Stack is of the utmost importance to their business success, according to Catchpoint's inaugural Internet Resilience Report ...

June 25, 2024

Despite a near-unanimous desire to adopt AI technology, very few respondents have confidence in their organization's readiness to integrate AI, pointing to limitations in data and infrastructure and security concerns, according to the 2024 IT Trends Report, AI: Friend or Foe? ...

June 21, 2024

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 7, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA continues on the theme of network automation, asking the question: Build or Buy? ...

June 20, 2024

The total cost of downtime for Global 2000 companies is $400 billion annually — or 9% of profits — when digital environments fail unexpectedly, according to The Hidden Costs of Downtime, a new report from Splunk ...

June 13, 2024

As organizations continue to navigate their digital transformation journeys, the need for efficient, secure, and scalable data movement strategies has never been more critical ... In an era when enterprise IT landscapes are continually evolving, the strategic movement of data has become a cornerstone of maintaining agility, competitive edge, and operational efficiency ...

June 06, 2024

Software developers are spending more than 57% of their time being dragged into "war rooms" to solve application performance issues, rather than investing their time developing new, cutting-edge software applications as part of their organization's innovation strategy, according to a new report from Cisco ...

May 29, 2024

Nearly half (44%) of IT leaders surveyed believe their organizations are fully set up to realize the benefits of AI, according to Architect an AI Advantage, a report commissioned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The report reveals critical gaps in their strategies ...

May 17, 2024

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 6, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses network automation ...

May 13, 2024

Government agencies are transforming to improve the digital experience for employees and citizens, allowing them to achieve key goals, including unleashing staff productivity, recruiting and retaining talent in the public sector, and delivering on the mission, according to the Global Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Survey from Riverbed ...

May 06, 2024

The rise of AI is ushering in a new disrupt-or-die era. "Data-ready enterprises that connect and unify broad structured and unstructured data sets into an intelligent data infrastructure are best positioned to win in the age of AI ...

May 02, 2024

A majority (61%) of organizations are forced to evolve or rethink their data and analytics (D&A) operating model because of the impact of disruptive artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, according to a new Gartner survey ...

May 01, 2024

The power of AI, and the increasing importance of GenAI are changing the way people work, teams collaborate, and processes operate ... Gartner identified the top data and analytics (D&A) trends for 2024 that are driving the emergence of a wide range of challenges, including organizational and human issues ...

April 25, 2024

The use of hybrid multicloud models is forecasted to double over the next one to three years as IT decision makers are facing new pressures to modernize IT infrastructures because of drivers like AI, security, and sustainability, according to the Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) report from Nutanix ...

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