

The story of 2020 is of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, and of how the world adapted. The story of malware in 2020 then, is a story of how the tools and tactics of cybercrime and cybersecurity changed against a backdrop of enormous changes to ordinary life.
As entire businesses switched to remote working, IT teams...
Published: Feb 24, 2021


The world of work is not changing. It has already changed. Firms that have not boarded the ship need to get on now or risk being left at shore. Mid-size firms particularly should not ignore this trend. As emerging technologies stretch the job market and take over mundane tasks, mid-size firms will increasingly struggle...
Published: Feb 04, 2021


When evaluating application security vendors, you have a great deal to consider. Understanding your goals will help. If your goal is vendor consolidation then selecting those offering multiple security capabilities over single products may make more sense. If your goal is out-of-the-box functionality then understanding...
Published: Feb 08, 2021


Reliance on renewable energy will only increase as part of the global drive to reduce pollution and global warming, which means facilities such as solar power plants and windfarms will need to operate with greater resilience and optimised performance.
Focusing on an offshore windfarm in this instance, this infographic...
Published: Feb 26, 2021


With many employees now working remotely and many others working on-site but at a physical distance, you may have found that your company needs a digital communication reboot. When those who were temporarily remote return, the workplace will not be the same as when they left. Physical distancing and virtual collaboration...
Published: Feb 17, 2021


In the past few years, the IT landscape has seen many profound changes and evolutions fueled by a combination of vendor innovation and seemingly unstoppable data growth.
ESG research confirms that the volume of data and the evolving cybersecurity landscape are key IT complexity drivers, along with new data security...
Published: Jan 26, 2021


As the CIO, it can be challenging to adopt agile ways of working. The cloud is where to start.
Read this guide to learn more about the benefits.
Published: Jan 29, 2021


Digital transformation, and especially cloud adoption, has accelerated due to the global pandemic. Needing to support widespread remote working, enterprises are creating more data and facing a business imperative to move their applications out of their own data centers to the cloud. A new global survey of nearly 2,700...
Published: Dec 22, 2020


Read how an IT services firm enhances UNIX security while simplifying management.
Published: Feb 19, 2021


In early 2020, IDC performed in-depth primary research on how organizations determine workload placement as they evolve through digital transformation (DX) and what implications this has for modernized infrastructure objectives and strategies.
Most IT organizations are in the midst of a DX. IDC defines DX as the continuous...
Published: Jan 26, 2021


Over 50% of businesses are preparing for long-term, flexible work patterns. But the rush to adopt remote technology and maintain service levels has left businesses unable to secure operational resilience.
This Xerox guide explores how cloud infrastructure, security, automation, and managed support can futureproof...
Published: Feb 24, 2021


This report focuses on a recent quantitative research study conducted with UK and Ireland IT decision makers (ITDMs). It explores how finance and insurance organisations are approaching cloud adoption, where the key challenges and apprehensions exist, and how organisations can look to overcome these challenges through...
Published: Dec 22, 2020


Faced with shelter-in-place orders in their home counties and states, countless companies transitioned to entirely remote workforces.
Predictably, these near-immediate transitions carried with them some setbacks.
A remote workforce can become a workforce stretched thin: Communication must adapt to online models...
Published: Feb 04, 2021


In this whitepaper IDC explores the business value that ERP modernization can deliver to digital executives and the broader organization. It showcases the results of a global study on S/4HANA migrations carried out with 700 digital and IT executives from organizations that are SAP customers. The objective is to provide...
Published: Feb 26, 2021