IBM Storage: Scaling Up and Scaling Out for AI Analytics
IBM’s Storage group is focusing on the fast-growing AI and data analytics market to continue its revenue growth for flexible configurations of storage systems – and IBM Spectrum storage-management software.
IBM Storage: Scaling Up and Scaling Out for AI Analytics
Summary Insights: Security Gaps and Requirements
RFG Perspective: Now that the work-from-home (WFH) environment is settling in as the "New Normal" and will be with us for an extended period of time, a renewed focus needs to be placed on cyberattacks and insider threats. (Twitter hack just one example.) Cybercriminals continue to view COVID-19 as an opportunity for launching new and more deceptive attacks while disgruntled employees are using the loosening of the security guardrails as an opening to extract or tamper with sensitive corporate data and personally identifiable information (PII).
Summary Insights: Security Gaps and Requirements in New Normal
Five Potential Out-of-Compliance Areas Due to the “New Normal”
RFG Perspective: Initial business transformations in response to the global pandemic focused on meeting the demands of stay-at-home workforces while addressing fluctuations in customer demands. While large organizations were able to quickly meet these substantive changes in customer demand and accessibility, other aspects may have fallen into non-compliance, including sensitive data and personally identifiable information (PII) protections, data governance, and data residency.
Five Potential Out-of-Compliance Areas Due to the “New Normal”
DataOps: Companion to DevSecOps for Reimagining Applications
RFG Perspective: DataOps methodologies give business leaders a new set of tools designed to rapidly marshal corporate data from across their organization – and to prepare data, making it business-ready for new uses. DataOps is a necessary companion competency to DevSecOps for enterprise developers and data scientists.
DataOps: Companion to DevSecOps for Reimagining Applications
Reimagine and Go – The New IT Delivery Model
RFG Perspective: The sudden jolt delivered to the global economy by the COVID-19 crisis demands a change to the business model, which in turn will require a new set of enterprise applications. To reach this goal, we believe business and IT executives must “Reimagine and Go.”
Reimagine and Go – The New IT Delivery Model
COVID-19: Bringing Rapid Change to Vertical Markets
RFG Perspective: The coronavirus crisis is forcing sudden, major change that will pull some long-range plans forward – and eliminate others that no longer work in a COVID-19 world. The new parameters of doing business are only beginning to emerge. It is clear now that the pandemic health crisis is accelerating the transformation of business processes – creating a “fierce urgency of now” in the wake of a virus that has no cure – yet. Rapid changes in our work and home environments will force long-term changes in behavior, culture and work processes – affecting a wide range of vertical markets worldwide. Business executives and IT executives will need to accept these new behaviors and trends – and incorporate them into their business plans, if they wish to be leaders in the changed work environment.
COVID-19: Bringing Rapid Change to Vertical Markets
COVID19 Crisis Forcing Executives to Re-Think Business Processes
RFG Perspective: The coronavirus crisis is accelerating the transformation of business processes – creating a “fierce urgency of now” in the wake of an unpredictable wave of infection for a virus that has no cure – yet. We’re seeing a sharp rise in the number of people infected, the number hospitalized and, sadly, the number of deaths. Overnight we are witnessing a new “wave of change.” Business and IT executives need to plan and act quickly so that they can stay ahead of the curve.
COVID19 Crisis Forcing Executives to Re-Think Business Processes
Surviving the Coronavirus Pandemic
RFG Perspective: Most enterprises are unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, which could incapacitate 30 percent or more of staff and dramatically impair revenue streams. This will be true even for those organizations that have decent disaster recovery/business continuity plans in place to address catastrophes that destroy or impair infrastructure. Unlike most catastrophes that are local, this pandemic will impact business in multiple sites globally and has the ability to put an entire enterprise at risk.
Surviving the Coronavirus Pandemic
Digital Transformation Metrics
RFG Perspective: Some think digital transformation is just an IT-related project without impact on the lines of business while others believe it is some form of digital business transformation. For an enterprise to be successful in transforming the company, it is necessary for all executives and all departments to understand the goals, metrics, and desired outcomes and to be fully on board. Additionally, everyone needs to know the role they will play throughout the process and after the solution is in production.
Digital Transformation Metrics
2020 Predictions
2020 Predictions
RFG Perspective: The global economic and geopolitical environments will be more positive than negative for most countries, which will make for more constrained IT budgets in 2020. Additionally, the disintermediation impacts of the digital economy, trade disruptions and tariffs will continue to disrupt businesses – and whole industries – that must be addressed by corporate executives before their firms' revenues are usurped by new or transformed competitors.
2020 Predictions