New research, survey and stats from Accenture, CyberGRX Wipro, Spiceworks, and many others
1. 75% Executives Say Departments Compete Rather Than Collaborate on Digitization: Accenture Study
Accenture released the findings from a survey titled Together Makes BetterOpens a new window , that saw 1550 senior executives across R&D, engineering, production, and supply chain business functions from manufacturing and industrial companies participate in a study about collaboration. 75% of executives say that departments in an organization compete rather than collaborate on digitization, which raises costs and lowers revenue gains from the initiatives. Around 64% of companies do not expect to see any revenue growth after digital investment.
2. Microsoft Azure is 125% more preferred than Google GCP as Cloud Provider: Barracuda Report
Security Appliances for email, internet, and IM protection provider Barracuda surveyed 750 executives, individual contributors, and team managers with a responsibility for or knowledge of their organization’s cloud infrastructure, to study the shift of their organization to SD-WAN. The results were published in a report titled Secure SD-WAN: The Launch Pad into CloudOpens a new window . The reports unveil that 74% of the respondents have already deployed a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) or will do so soon, while 52% would prefer acquiring the same through a cloud provider. Among cloud providers as well, the results show that Microsoft is 50 percent more preferred than Amazon AWS and 15% more than Google GCP.
3. 82% Organizations Admit To At Least One Data Breach Owing to Digital Transformation: CyberGRX Report
Cyber risk exchange CyberGRX conducted a study on preparedness for digital transformation titled Digital Transformation & Cyber Risk: What You Need to Know to Stay SafeOpens a new window . The results show that around 82% of companies have experienced a data breach as a result of digital transformation. 54% of IT security professionals find avoiding security exploits a challenge, while 56% of C-suite executives find it difficult to trust a third-party with policies and practices regarding the security of their information.
4. 82% SOC Confident of Cyber Threat Detection Ability: Exabeam Report
Exabeam, the Security Information and Event Management(SIEM )Company recently published its ‘2020 State of the SOC ReportOpens a new window , with the findings covering the effectiveness of corporate security operations centers (SOCs). The report says that almost 82% of SoCs are confident that they can detect cyber threats. At the same time, almost 40% of organizations are struggling with SOC staff shortages and finding qualified people, let alone detecting cyber threats.
5. With 93% Workforce Working Remote, a 66% Increase in Reported Security Issues: Ivanti Survey
The IT workplace management and digitization company Ivanti announced a surveyOpens a new window that studies the impact of the move to “work from home†in response to the pandemic outbreak. Thanks to almost 93% of the workforce going remote, 63% of IT professionals say their workloads have increased 37%. The major reasons for the increased workload are VPN issues (74%), video conferencing (56%), bandwidth constraints(48%), password reset (47%), and messaging issues (47%).
Adding to the increased workload, IT professionals have also reported a rise in security issues (66%) owing to malicious emails (58%), risky, non-compliant employee behavior (45%), and an increase in software vulnerabilities (31%).
6. 55% Admit to Automation Enhancing Software Quality: Kobiton Survey
Kobiton, End-to-end mobile testing platform Kobiton released a study titled Mobile Test Automation in 2020Opens a new window , which revealed that almost 55% of respondents – software professionals – agree that automation in testing improves software quality, but as many as 76% say that they are automating less than half of software tests – 73% manually test a software around 100 times before releasing.
7. Sigma Computing Survey Reveals The Gap Between Data Teams And Business Experts
Sigma Computing, a cloud native analytics and business intelligence provider released a survey titled “The Data Language Barrier: Bridging the Gap between Data and Business Teams.Opens a new window †The survey revealed that around 45% of data experts accept that they struggle to interpret domain experts’ data questions or needs, while around 20% domain experts say that they rarely find the data team’s data to be adequate.
Sigma Computing CTO and Co-founder Rob Woollen, in an exclusive comment to Toolbox said, “It’s impossible to be data-driven when knowledge workers, and their invaluable domain expertise, are left out of the analysis process. Strategic leaders harness the power of collective intelligence by making analytics and business intelligence community-driven. Everyone needs governed access to data and the ability to analyze real-time data for themselves.â€
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8. 56% IT Leaders Expect Increase in Cloud Spend Post COVID-19: Snow Study
The technology intelligence solution provider, Snow Software conducted a surveyOpens a new window with around 150 IT leaders, regarding the change in investment decisions during the crisis. The survey reports that 76% of IT leaders have increased the use of cloud platforms which is much more as compared to the rise in the use of collaboration tools (55%) and Video conferencing tools (52%). Out of those almost 66% of IT leaders say that they will continue to use the cloud services even after the crises pass and normal working resumes.
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9. 75% Business Need to Upgrade IT Infrastructure to Utilize New Technologies: Wipro Report
IT consulting and business process company Wipro has released its ‘State of IT Infrastructure 202Opens a new window 0′ report. The report says that around 75% of organizations will have to upgrade their IT infrastructure if they plan to adopt new technologies while 81% of enterprises are reskilling their existing workforce to enhance digital transformation and make new major changes.
BONUS SURVEY: Only 31% of Companies are As Comfortable Storing Data On Cloud as On-premises: Spiceworks Survey
Spiceworks recently surveyed data storage trends in a report titled “Data Storage Trends in 2020 and Beyond.†The report revealed that around 39% of businesses are deploying cloud-based storage infrastructure and around 20% are planning to do so by 2022. Most of the businesses had standardized SSDs for desktop (56%) and laptops (68%). Among all these, only 31% of companies are as comfortable with storing data in the cloud as they are on-premises.
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