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Summary Insights: AIOps Truths and Best Practices

Jan 27, 2021   //   by tech   //   Reports  //  No Comments

RFG Perspective: The primary objective of AIOps is to improve systems availability and IT operations productivity by automating corrective actions through predictive analysis, root cause analysis and synthesis of data. AIOps enhances traditional IT operations tools by adding machine learning (ML) and analytics automation to simplify and address the IT operational complexities of the New Normal environment.

Summary Insights: AIOps Truths and Best Practices

Summary Insights: Building a Culture of Preparedness and High Reliability

Jan 20, 2021   //   by tech   //   Reports  //  No Comments

RFG Perspective: In the New Normal environment of 2021, digital transactions will be critical to an enterprise’s survival, and outages will be more damaging than at any time in the past. But the New Normal work from home (WFH) environment has increased the cultural challenge of getting all employees to be highly responsive to alerts, architectural issues, disruptions, outages and production issues that can greatly impair the ability of customers, employees and suppliers to conduct business.

Summary Insights: Building a Culture of Preparedness and High Reliability

Trends – 2021 Predictions

Jan 4, 2021   //   by Cal Braunstein   //   Reports  //  No Comments

RFG Perspective: The COVID-19 pandemic was a Black Swan event that turned 2020 from a positive year to one of great angst and its effects will continue through most of 2021. The global economic and geopolitical environments will be negative for most countries for at least the first half of the upcoming year that will make for uncertainty and more constrained IT budgets in 2021.

Trends - 2021 Predictions

Summary Insights: Data Governance

Dec 24, 2020   //   by Cal Braunstein   //   Reports  //  No Comments

RFG Perspective: In today’s hybrid multi-cloud, data-driven world, the integrity role of data - an enterprise’s greatest asset - has never been more important. Nonetheless, strong, comprehensive data governance practices are not yet fully in place across all domains.

Summary Insights: Data Governance

Summary Insights: Aligning Corporate Risk Posture with New Normal Norms

Nov 20, 2020   //   by Cal Braunstein   //   Reports  //  No Comments

RFG Perspective: The rapid shift to the COVID-19 era work from home (WFH) office and hybrid multi-cloud environment is forcing CxOs to re-examine their enterprise’s risk posture for New Normal work conditions.

Summary Insights: Aligning Corporate Risk Posture with New Normal Norms

Summary Insights: DR/BC in a Hybrid Multi-Cloud WFH World

Nov 5, 2020   //   by tech   //   Reports  //  Comments Off on Summary Insights: DR/BC in a Hybrid Multi-Cloud WFH World

RFG Perspective: The good news – and bad news – is that disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) options have expanded tremendously with the advent of the cloud. In today’s New Normal business world, the customary maxims about DR/BC still apply: Organizations should design for failure - and they should standardize their DR/BC best practices and simplify.

Summary Insights: DR/BC in a Hybrid Multi-Cloud WFH World

Summary Insights: Data Acquisition and Cleansing with AI

Oct 16, 2020   //   by Cal Braunstein   //   Reports  //  No Comments

RFG Perspective: Most enterprises are still struggling with implementing automated techniques for data acquisition and cleansing. In fact, the maturity level of in-house data catalogs and dictionaries leaves a lot to be desired.

Summary Insights: Data Acquisition and Cleansing with AI

Summary Insights: Low-Cost Private Clouds

Oct 5, 2020   //   by Cal Braunstein   //   Reports  //  No Comments

By Jean S. Bozman and Cal Braunstein
RFG Perspective: In-house private clouds can be just economical as public clouds while providing better assurances to enterprises in terms of compliance, latency, privacy, risk, and security requirements.

Summary Insights: Low-Cost Private Clouds

Summary Insights: WFH networking

Sep 14, 2020   //   by Cal Braunstein   //   Reports  //  No Comments

RFG Perspective: Given that Work From Home (WFH) is a factor in business, business executives and IT executives must rethink their networking topologies with consideration towards data management and privacy, identity, and security. No one knows when work-from-home (WFH) for employees will end as a standard work option.

Summary Insights: WFH networking

Summary Insights: Structuring Hybrid Clouds with a Data Architecture

Sep 1, 2020   //   by Cal Braunstein   //   Reports  //  No Comments

By Jean Bozman and Cal Braunstein

RFG Perspective: The shift to the cloud created a paradigm change for data architectural considerations. Companies were just beginning to address the challenges created by the islands of data that existed within their data centers when the cloud movement began.

Summary Insights: Structuring Hybrid Clouds with a Data Architecture