Steve Duplessie, senior analyst at Enterprise Storage Group Inc., estimates that of the 225 storage companies his firm tracks today, just 125 will see it through to next year. But Duplessie's figure includes public companies. We estimate that of the 100 or more storage networking startups which have received more than $2.5 billion in funding among them, according to VC firm Charles River Ventures at best 20 percent of them will make it through to an acquisition or an IPO (or, even less likely, will survive as a standalone company), once the economy recovers (see Startups: The Next Generation
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.
