The legal sector is in a state of constant change, driven by compliance and regulatory requirements, intense competition and the ever-present need to be more cost effective, while also maintaining or increasing productivity. Traditionally law firms have been slower to adopt new technologies or consider how advances in IT can benefit operations. This is mainly
Today, less than 5% of network operations teams are sufficiently skilled to realize the value possible from network analytics and automation solutions. This will improve over the next three years, but not much—by 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will be able to fully realize the benefits of these tools. Read this Gartner paper
Network Services and Enterprise Networks Network technologies “While the CLI remains the dominant mechanism for more than 85% of system engineers to implement network changes, several alternatives are gaining popularity, including APIs, fabrics, and SD-WAN. By 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will use the CLI as their primary interface, down from 85% at
The network plays a fundamental role in enabling the shift to digital. But it simply cannot fulfill this function while it is hardware-bound and hard-coded. The network must become cloudlike to enable delivery of dynamic, rich digital services quickly and easily. This means shifting away from old approaches that require configuration of individual boxes to
Flexible IT plays an increasingly important role in business success. Like larger companies, midsize firms must make sure that they are effectively coordinating on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud capabilities. Unlike large companies, though, midsize firms are limited in both financial and technical resources to design and coordinate effective solutions to meet specific needs. Download this
HPE Synergy is a new class of system that falls under a category known as Composable/Disaggregated Infrastructure — an emerging category of datacenter infrastructure that seeks to (dis)aggregate compute, storage, and networking fabric resources into shared resource pools that can be available for on-demand allocation (i.e., “composable”). The HPE Synergy system is a fullstack system
Ever changing market conditions demand that you find new, faster ways to deliver increased value to retain your competitive edge. While cloud offers increased flexibility, scalability, efficiency, and productivity, some workloads are not ready to take advantage of cloud services. As a result, organisations are searching for better, more innovative ways to reduce complexity, increase
As businesses transform their organisations to meet the demands of a hypercompetitive digital economy, one of the more impactful changes is the blurring of organisational lines that formerly defined business functions. Today, all employees take ownership in achieving business goals; and decision makers, representing diverse points of view, are likely to have a say in
The threat of ransomware is only just beginning. In fact, nearly 50% of organisations have suffered at least one ransomware attack in the past 12 months, and the estimates predict this will continue to increase at an exponential rate. While healthcare and financial services are the most targeted industries, no organisation is immune. And cost?
In the face of changing business needs and increased competition, business stakeholders increasingly demand that the IT organisation be agile, innovative, and able to help identify and lead significant initiatives within their enterprises. Yet IT organisations are not as good at enabling transformation in the enterprise as they may believe.CIO magazine’s 2015 State of the