Many firms expect to migrate to the cloud in full within five years
Today, roughly five percent of organizations have moved their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. In five years’ time, however, that number is expected to swell to 64 percent. This is according to a new report from cloud management company CloudCheckr. In its annual Cloud Infrastructure Report, the company says the majority (57 percent) of the organizations it surveyed have …
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UK firms could struggle to attract tech talent without remote working
The pandemic has placed remote working in the spotlight, with many businesses and employees coming to understand the range of benefits for the first time. However, new research from recruitment platform CodinGame shows organizations aren’t rushing to offer remote working positions to new tech employees, which could make finding and retaining top talent a challenge. Analyzing the state of the …
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Most firms don’t have the right tech for hybrid working
Many businesses lack “useful integrations” in their tech stacks and, as a result, employees are working twice as hard as they should be. This is according to a new report from content enablement platform Templafy, which claims UK workers spend “large amounts of time” switching between applications. With more than a quarter using six to ten different applications each week, …
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DDoS attackers turn attention to telecoms firms
Of all the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that happened in the first quarter of 2021, the biggest percentage targeted the telecommunications industry, a new report from Cloudflare suggests. Laying out the results in a blog post, Cloudflare’s Vivek Ganti and Omer Yoachimik said that 0.022 percent of attack traffic targeted telecoms, followed by consumer services (0.014 percent) and …
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UK firms worried about upcoming Digital Services Act
Some UK businesses may be “cautiously optimistic” about the upcoming Digital Services Act (DSA), but almost all of them are also worried about the implications for their operations. This is according to a new report from online content moderation firm Besedo, which surveyed 200 businesses on the upcoming changes. The DSA is a new set of rules and regulations submitted …
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Lack of cybersecurity expertize stopping financial firms from protecting their data
Last year, financial organizations that keep their apps and data in the cloud suffered all kinds of cybersecurity incidents, all due to the lack of in-house security knowledge. These are the findings presented in the 2021 Cloud Data Security Report, issued by cloud security company Netwrix. Polling 937 IT professionals worldwide, Netwrix found that more than half (59 percent) of …
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The pandemic has helped most UK firms speed up digitization
Experts and market analysts have advised organizations to speed up digital transformation for years now, but it has taken a global pandemic to force many into action. This is according to a new report from cloud and hosting services provider IONOS, which found that almost two thirds of UK’s SMEs believe Covid-19 has impacted their digitization efforts. Polling 1,003 UK …
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Healthcare firms saw a rise in ransomware attacks last year
Healthcare firms had a nightmare of a year in 2020, not just as a result of the pandemic, but also due to an increasing volume of cyberattacks, ransomware campaigns and data theft. A new report from cybersecurity vendor Netwrix claims healthcare organizations were targeted most frequently by phishing in the cloud (44 percent), ransomware (39 percent) and insider data theft …
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Tech firms may have to scale back office space amid remote working demand
Despite the associated challenges, employees across the world intend to continue working remotely once the pandemic has subsided, a new report from Harvey Nash suggests. As a result, businesses will need to “dramatically” scale back their office space. According to the report, almost four in five tech workers would choose to operate under a hybrid working model, with their time …
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An increasing number of firms are shifting network resources to the edge
By next year, edge deployment of network resources will increase by almost half (40 percent), a new report from IDC and Limelight Networks suggests. According to the “Outlook for Edge Services” paper, 60 percent of all network resources will be deployed at remote edge or service provider locations by 2022, up from 20 percent today. Beyond providing greater agility, the …
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