Gerr says he spoke to IT and business professionals for four months while researching his report, and he found that few are prepared for the job ahead:
We are really ill prepared for the level of data protection and storage requirements necessary for the level of growth" of data. Companies are especially unprepared in the area of records management.
What were seeing is, records management isnt a mainstream practice," Gerr grumbles. "I think content management and document management vendors have an important role to play because they understand records management and workflow.
Given all this, it's no wonder nearly every software vendor in networking storage is pushing compliance products. Ask us: We have the emails, IMs, and text pages to prove it.
Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
