Introduction: The Move to the Cloud and the Implications In a relatively short time frame, businesses have started to place increasingly significant bets on their cloud services. It isn’t just more workloads, but more business-critical workloads that are now running in the cloud, including in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. This has fundamentally changed the nature of network traffic for...

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Enterprise IT has been in a near constant state of change over the past few years, as worker access remained largely in flux and lines of business were abruptly transformed forever. In this new reality, the enterprise network has become the connective fiber of the business, allowing workers to stay in touch with customers and workflows regardless of their physical...

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Enterprise IT spending is set to jump 5.1 percent in 2022 as businesses invest upwards of $4.5 trillion into new technologies and services. According to the research from Gartner, enterprise software will see the highest spend this year of all IT categories, with investments totalling $750 billion in 2022—an 11 percent jump from 2021. This comes after two years of...

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Digital transformation has touched nearly every corner of the enterprise over the past two years, with many businesses already on their second or third major network overhaul since the pandemic began. What’s become clear for many IT leaders is that digital transformation isn’t one single project, but an ongoing process that encompasses the fluid nature of business in a decentralized...

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Over the course of the pandemic, enterprises have bounced back-and-forth on their office return plans, while (intentionally or not) experimenting with new hybrid work schedules to strike a balance between worker safety, comfort and productivity. One of the biggest takeaways from this forced-trial in hybrid work is that whether in the office or not, clocking in from 9am to 5pm,...

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By October 2021, there had been more data breaches reported in the United States than during the entirety of 2020, with more victims reported in Q3 2021 than Q1 and Q2 of 2020 combined. With data theft on an upward trajectory at the same time that much of the global workforce is undergoing a hybrid work transformation, it’s incumbent on...

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More than 20 million jobs in North America that used to be office based will be fully remote by the end of 2022, according to a recent report. This comes as more than a quarter of the professional workforce (ie. those with salaries exceeding $100,000) makes their Covid-era work-from-home accommodations permanent. Still, businesses and municipal governments have worked hard to...

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While Amazon still has a commanding hold over the cloud market, a string of recent AWS outages and a spending spree by rival providers is heating up the competition—albeit among a handful of familiar players. Most aggressive over the past year has been Google Cloud, which has seen its share of the market grow from 1 percent to 6 percent...

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Like most things in 2021, it’s been hard to compare this year’s holiday shopping season with historical trends, as the pandemic evolves and continues to put our best laid plans for reengaging in-person with each other to the test. Ace among America’s social pastimes is holiday shopping, which has remained strong in terms of total sales despite a reported lack...

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As the third calendar year of the pandemic approaches, remote work is no longer a “new normal” but an operational standard at many companies, as more than 53 percent of new workers hired over the past 18 months were onboarded remotely, according to a new survey. The research, conducted by Microsoft in association with YouGov, found that more than half...

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