By: Atish Gude – Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) NetApp 2019 was a year of rapid innovation—and disruption—for both the IT industry and the broader business community. With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de facto architecture for enterprise customers, organizations everywhere are under tremendous pressure to modernize their infrastructure and to deliver tangible business value around data-intensive applications and workloads. As a result, organizations are shifting from on-premises environments to using public cloud services, building private clouds, and moving from disk to flash in data centers—sometimes concurrently. These transformations open the door to enormous … Continue reading NetApp 2020 Predictions

The Importance of Cybersecurity to Enable Safety and Reliability is Recognized but Obstacles Remain Fortinet,a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced that a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting found that industrial firms, due to increased digitalization, are more exposed to cyber threats than ever before. In addition, the lack of collaboration between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) teams represents another cybersecurity barrier for organizations that want to take full advantage of IT/OT convergence to increase their business benefits. Industrial firms are committed to further digitalizing their factory floor to find new efficiencies … Continue reading New Fortinet Survey Provides Insight into the role of Cybersecurity in OT