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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval.

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Disaster recovery in a DevOps world

Network World

According to a 2015 survey by IT Revolution Press in conjunction with Puppet Labs , organizations using DevOps deploy code 30 times faster than others, doing deployments multiple times per day. Moreover, change failure gets cut in half with DevOps and services are restored up to 168 times faster than they are at non-DevOps organizations.

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Overcome These 7 Challenges to Optimize Your Hybrid Multicloud Journey

CIO Business Intelligence

In a 2021 survey , 95% of respondents agreed that a hybrid cloud is critical for success, and 86% plan to invest more in hybrid multicloud. Your organization must make security as robust as possible across storage, network, compute, and people—essentially every layer.

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2018 state of resilience: The pressure is on

Network World

As we swerve onto the runway in 2018, IT leaders are finding themselves under increased pressure to ensure security, high availability and disaster recovery for the applications and systems under their care. The results of several surveys underscore the concerns of nearly 6,000 IT professionals around the globe.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO Business Intelligence

According to PwC’s 2023 Global Crisis and Resilience Survey , 96% of 1,812 business leaders said their organizations had experienced disruption in the past two years and 76% said their most serious disruption had a medium to high impact on operations. There’s no better test of your capability to do so than right after an adverse event.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO Business Intelligence

Those bumps in spending include added demand for cloud and cloud-adjacent workers who can help maintain and continuously improve and expand enterprise cloud networks. Role growth: 30% of companies have added cloud architect roles as part of their cloud investments, according to Foundry’s survey.

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Digital transformation: Opening up a new era for O&M

TM Forum

With new technologies such as 5G, IoT, and extended reality emerging, networks and services are becoming increasing complex to manage and operate. O&M and network capabilities must develop in parallel. According to a survey by TM Forum in 2021, 88% of carriers expect there to be large scale deployment of AN in the next decade.