| | Featured Articles The holiday shopping season delivers gifts to a wide range of recipients, including friends and family, the retail and shipping industries, and - increasingly - to hackers. How quickly are you moving to the cloud? For some companies, the move has been a swift and easy one as they embrace change and the opportunity to level the playing field. For others, it's a risk to go outside of the corporate firewall and grant another entity access to information and processes. It doesn't have to be a scary endeavor, but it does need to be one with purpose. Managing risk and maintaining compliance in the face of complexity and constant change is a major challenge for organizations, from the Board through to Management and even dedicated risk and IT professionals. Organizations, their business units and subsequent departments all have separate needs and diverse compliance standards that they need to meet, as well as exposure to differing third-party risks. We've all heard about fantastic new data center technologies, but all too often it looks like these technologies only seem to apply to the largest organizations with a wealth of centralized resources. Because data doesn't just live in the data center, we often face daily challenges when data is put to use in the field at remote offices and branch offices (ROBOs). The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming ubiquitous as mobility, the cloud and a subscription and services-based billing model transform networking and connectivity. The trend has given way to the phenomenon of "everything-as-a-service," an evolution set to transform pretty much everything about the way hardware and software are developed, delivered, managed and monetized. For years, enterprises had to choose between monolithic enterprise apps and best-of-breed solutions. The former offers a one stop shop and integration, but force compromises. In the latter, individual programs may shine on their own but need to be cobbled together through duct tape, bubble gum and APIs. TMCnet Free Premium Content | | | | Advertise With Us | | Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details. | | |
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