Over the past several years, enterprise IT teams moved faster than at any point in recent history. AI pilots launched, cloud adoption accelerated, security stacks expanded, and automation initiatives multiplied across nearly every organization.

That speed delivered innovation, but it also produced environments that are increasingly complex, difficult to operate, and harder to govern at scale.

As organizations look toward 2026, priorities are changing. Boards and executive teams are no longer rewarding experimentation for its own sake. They are demanding reliability, security, cost control, and measurable outcomes. Industry analysts including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Deloitte, and PwC consistently describe this moment as a shift from experimentation to enterprise IT execution.

The IT trends shaping 2026 reflect how organizations are responding to this shift in practice. As AI moves into production, architectural limits surface. Long-held cloud assumptions are challenged, and as environments distribute across clouds, data centers, and edge locations, security models must adapt, with each trend building on the one before it as execution challenges emerge at scale.

Trend #1: AI Grows Up From Innovation Theater to Everyday Operations (AI in Production)

What the trend is: AI is moving from isolated pilots and innovation programs into core, production business operations across both IT and business functions.

Why this is happening now: Board pressure, operational risk, and the demand for measurable ROI have ended tolerance for unmanaged experimentation.

What organizations are doing now: Industry analysts including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, McKinsey, Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, EY, and IBM converge on the same conclusion for 2026: AI is the forefront of initiatives. Gartner frames AI as a platform capability that reshapes operating models, while Forrester predicts enterprises will slow or defer uncontrolled AI spending until governance and ROI are provable. IDC and McKinsey reinforce that the fastest-growing AI investments are focused on production use cases in IT operations, security, software development, finance, human resources, and customer-facing business workflows, rather than experimental projects.

What organizations are actively de-prioritizing

• Endless AI pilots without production ownership
• AI tools operating outside security and identity controls
• Shadow AI adoption without auditability or accountability

No technology illustrates the shift from experimentation to execution more clearly than AI.

Over the past several years, AI dominated budgets and headlines. Organizations experimented with chatbots, analytics models, and generative tools that were often disconnected from core systems. While many initiatives delivered insight or short-term efficiency, relatively few produced durable, repeatable value at enterprise scale.

What organizations learned is that AI pilots without operational integration do not fail quietly. They introduce parallel systems, ungoverned decision-making, new security exposure, and operational dependencies that become difficult to justify once AI begins influencing financial performance, workforce decisions, or customer outcomes.

By 2026, that experimentation phase is largely over.

AI investment is now concentrating in operational domains where reliability, consistency, and integration matter more than novelty. Instead of isolated pilots, AI is being embedded directly into systems that run organizations day to day. This includes financial forecasting and anomaly detection, HR workforce planning and recruiting, customer service operations, IT operations, and security response, all operating under defined governance and accountability.

This shift is occurring because early experimentation proved potential value while also exposing risk. Boards and executives now demand measurable outcomes, forcing AI into production workflows where it must operate predictably under real-world constraints.

What organizations are doing now: AI in IT Operations (AIOps)

In IT operations, AI is increasingly used to analyze telemetry across infrastructure, applications, and networks. Rather than waiting for outages to generate tickets, teams apply AI-driven operations to identify patterns that signal impending failures.

Industry research cited by Gartner and IDC shows that mature AIOps environments can reduce mean time to resolution by roughly 30 to 50 percent, primarily by accelerating root cause identification and remediation.

AI is compensating for scale that human teams can no longer manage alone.

What organizations are doing now: AI in Security Operations

Security teams routinely process thousands of alerts per day, many of which go uninvestigated due to staffing constraints and alert fatigue. Forrester and IBM emphasize that AI-driven correlation and prioritization are now essential for effective security operations.

AI reduces noise, prioritizes credible threats, and automates first-response actions, allowing analysts to focus on judgment .

What organizations are doing now: AI in Software Development

Development teams increasingly use AI for code assistance, test generation, security scanning, and documentation. Deloitte and Accenture note that the primary value is not speed alone, but reduced delivery risk and improved consistency across teams.

AI delivers value when it is treated as infrastructure, not experimentation.

As AI becomes embedded in day-to-day operations, many organizations encounter a second, less visible constraint: whether their underlying architecture can actually support it at scale.

Trend #2: AI Readiness Exposes Architectural Reality in Enterprise IT Execution

What the trend is: AI initiatives are exposing long-standing architectural weaknesses across infrastructure, data, and integration.

Why this is happening now: Production-scale AI workloads stress systems in ways experimentation never did.

What organizations are doing now: As AI moves from experimentation into production, many organizations encounter that the model itself is rarely the hardest part.

, data quality, integration, and governance quickly emerge as the real constraints. This is not because AI is fundamentally different, but because it amplifies weaknesses that already exist in enterprise IT environments.

AI workloads are compute-intensive, data-hungry, and unpredictable. They stress infrastructure differently than traditional applications, with uneven utilization patterns, heightened sensitivity to latency, and strong dependence on data locality. Fragmented data pipelines, constrained storage architectures, and underperforming networks erode AI value long before business teams see results.

In practice, AI often exposes architectural debt that had gone unaddressed for years. Many initiatives stall not because models underperform, but because the underlying environment cannot support them reliably or securely at scale.

As these constraints surface, organizations are being forced to take an end-to-end view of architecture that connects infrastructure, data, operations, and risk into a single conversation. That realization is reshaping how enterprises think about cloud.

Trend #3: Hybrid Cloud Replaces Cloud-First Dogma

What the trend is: Hybrid and multicloud are now permanent operating models rather than transitional states.

Why this is happening now: Cost volatility, data gravity, and regulatory pressure have exposed the limits of cloud-first strategies.

What organizations are doing now: Industry analysts including Gartner, IDC, Deloitte, PwC, IBM, and EY describe hybrid and multicloud as the default enterprise operating model by 2026. IDC notes that cloud spending growth is shifting from expansion to optimization, while Gartner emphasizes workload placement decisions over migration velocity.

What organizations are actively de-prioritizing

• Blanket cloud-first mandates
• Lift-and-shift migrations without cost or performance optimization
• Single-cloud dependency strategies

For much of the last decade, cloud-first mandates were treated as a marker of modernization. Moving workloads to the cloud signaled agility, innovation, and speed.

In practice, many organizations migrated workloads without fully evaluating long-term cost, performance, or regulatory implications. Provisioning was fast and experimentation was easy, but governance often lagged behind adoption. Industry studies consistently show that more than 60 percent of enterprises now exceed their cloud budgets annually.

By 2026, organizations are moving away from cloud-first ideology in favor of cloud-appropriate decision-making. Hybrid and multicloud environments are no longer temporary stages. They represent the steady-state model for enterprise IT.

What organizations are doing now: FinOps Becomes a Core Capability

Guidance from the FinOps Foundation and Gartner highlights that FinOps now spans public cloud, SaaS, licensing, and AI workloads. Cost governance has become continuous, architectural, and cross-functional rather than reactive.

The distinction is in well-architected environments versus poorly governed ones.

As environments span public cloud, private infrastructure, and edge locations, long-standing security assumptions are also being reexamined.

Trend #4: Security Evolves Beyond the Perimeter Through Identity and IT Governance

What the trend is: Enterprise security is shifting from perimeter-only defense to models centered on identity, behavior, and controlled access.

Why this is happening now: Distributed users, workloads, and AI systems have made location-based trust unreliable.

What organizations are doing now: Industry analysts including Gartner, Forrester, IBM, PwC, Deloitte, and EY consistently highlight that identity-based attacks account for the majority of modern breaches, and that lateral movement is the primary driver of impact once attackers gain access.

What organizations are actively de-prioritizing

• Security models that rely solely on network location
• Implicit trust based on where a connection originates
• Annual or point-in-time security assessments

As environments have become more distributed, security teams have had to rethink how trust is established and enforced.

Firewalls remain a critical control and a core part of enterprise security strategy. They continue to provide essential inspection, segmentation, and threat prevention at scale. What has changed is not the importance of firewalls, but the role they play within a broader security model.

Users, applications, workloads, APIs, and devices now operate across clouds, data centers, and edge environments. In this reality, security strategies focus less on defining a single perimeter and more on controlling access, limiting lateral movement, and reducing blast radius when incidents occur.

What organizations are doing now: Zero Trust Becomes Operational

Research from Forrester and Gartner emphasizes continuous verification across users, workloads, and services rather than one-time access decisions.

For many organizations, Zero Trust began as a way to modernize remote access and reduce reliance on VPNs. As those initiatives matured, a practical challenge emerged. Early Zero Trust and ZTNA implementations often focused on user access and assumed modern identity systems and managed endpoints.

Organizations are now extending Zero Trust principles to work alongside firewall platforms and network controls, applying consistent policy enforcement across users, devices, applications, and systems. This approach strengthens firewall effectiveness by ensuring that access decisions are context-aware and continuously evaluated.

This evolution is especially important for environments that include unmanaged devices, legacy applications, and operational systems where traditional identity or endpoint controls are limited. By combining firewall-based segmentation with Zero Trust access controls, organizations can better contain lateral movement and reduce the impact of compromise.

Zero Trust is no longer treated as a standalone project. It is becoming an operational layer that complements and enhances existing security investments.

Trend #5: Platforms Replace Best-of-Breed Sprawl in Enterprise IT Execution

What the trend is: Enterprises are consolidating fragmented tools into integrated platforms.

Why this is happening now: Operational complexity and ongoing talent constraints have made tool sprawl unsustainable.

What organizations are doing now: For years, best-of-breed strategies dominated enterprise IT. Organizations selected the strongest tool in each category and stitched them together through custom integrations and manual processes.

Over time, this approach created environments that were difficult to operate, expensive to secure, and heavily dependent on scarce expertise. Large enterprises now routinely manage dozens of overlapping infrastructure, networking, and security tools, each adding integration overhead and operational friction.

As these environments expanded, the challenge shifted from acquiring capability to operating it. Teams spent increasing amounts of time maintaining integrations, reconciling data across tools, and troubleshooting handoffs instead of delivering business outcomes.

By 2026, CIOs are prioritizing platforms over point solutions not because individual features no longer matter, but because integration, visibility, and operability matter more. Platforms provide shared data models, unified policy enforcement, and consistent operational workflows across domains.

This shift has also elevated the importance of vendor strategy and partner execution. Consolidation succeeds only when platforms are selected with a clear architectural intent and when integration is designed and validated rather than assumed. Organizations increasingly evaluate vendors based on how well their platforms interoperate and rely on trusted partners to build the connective tissue that turns platform capability into operational reality.

Even with platforms in place, however, the scale and pace of modern environments exceed what manual operations can support.

Trend #6: Automation Shifts from Efficiency to Survival at Scale

What the trend is: Automation has become essential for keeping modern IT environments stable and operational at scale.

Why this is happening now: The growth of infrastructure, applications, and security controls has outpaced human capacity, making manual operations a source of risk rather than control.

What organizations are doing now: Automation is not new. What has changed is its role.

In the past, automation was primarily used to improve efficiency and reduce repetitive tasks. Today, it is being used to prevent failure at scale.

Specifically, automation has shifted:

• From task-level scripting to system-level workflows
• From optional acceleration to operational control
• From individual ownership to shared, governed platforms
• From speed-first execution to risk-aware execution

Modern environments are too large, too dynamic, and too interconnected for manual intervention to remain reliable. The volume of systems, alerts, configurations, and dependencies now exceeds what human teams can manage consistently.

As a result, organizations are embedding automation directly into infrastructure, security, networking, and application operations. Automated workflows detect issues earlier, enforce policy consistently, and initiate response actions before problems escalate.

At the same time, experience has shown that uncontrolled automation can amplify errors and propagate failures.

The focus therefore shifted to automation with guardrails. Automated actions are bounded, observable, and reversible, allowing teams to maintain speed without surrendering control.

Automation is now keeping complex environments from breaking. Even with automation in place, execution still depends on people. Automation changes how teams operate, not whether they are needed.

Trend #7: Talent Shortages Drive New Enterprise IT Operating Models

What the trend is: Enterprises are adopting co-delivery and partner-augmented execution models to sustain modern IT environments.

Why this is happening now: Persistent skill shortages and rising execution pressure have made both fully in-house and fully outsourced models ineffective.

What organizations are doing now: Despite advances in AI and automation, people remain central to IT success. At the same time, the gap between the skills required to operate modern environments and the talent available to do so continues to widen.

Historically, organizations gravitated toward one of two extremes. Some attempted to do everything in-house, which breaks down under staffing constraints and burnout. Others relied heavily on outsourcing, which often reduced control, slowed decision-making, and eroded institutional knowledge.

That model no longer works.

Instead, enterprises are adopting co-delivery operating models that blend internal ownership with targeted external execution. In these models, internal teams retain responsibility for strategy, architecture, security, and accountability, while partners provide execution support, specialized expertise, surge capacity, and structured knowledge transfer.

What has changed is not the use of partners, but how they are used:

• From staff replacement to capability augmentation
• From transactional projects to ongoing execution support
• From dependency to deliberate knowledge transfer

This shift elevates the importance of trust, governance, and resilience across everything organizations deploy. Partners are expected to operate within defined architectural and security frameworks rather than alongside them.

Co-delivery models allow organizations to move faster without losing control, absorb change without breaking teams, and scale execution without creating long-term dependency.

Trend #8: Trust, IT Governance, and Resilience Are Built In

What the trend is: Governance, auditability, and resilience are being designed into systems from the start rather than added after deployment.

Why this is happening now: AI adoption, regulatory pressure, and increased board oversight require provable control, accountability, and operational discipline.

What organizations are doing now

Industry analysts across Gartner, IBM, Deloitte, PwC, EY, Accenture, McKinsey, Forrester, and IDC consistently describe governance as the gating factor for scaling AI, hybrid cloud, and automation. Without auditability, data lineage, policy enforcement, and clear accountability, initiatives stall before reaching sustained production impact.

What changed is the tolerance for ambiguity.

Trust must demonstrate continuously through observable controls and measurable outcomes.

As a result, organizations are prioritizing governance-first approaches across their environments. This includes embedding policy enforcement, auditability, and resilience directly into infrastructure, platforms, automation workflows, and security architectures rather than layering them on later.

Resilience has also moved to the foreground. Systems are increasingly designed with the expectation of disruption, whether from cyber incidents, operational failure, or regulatory scrutiny. The goal is no longer to prevent every failure, but to limit impact, recover quickly, and maintain control under pressure.

Organizations are investing in environments that can be monitored, evaluated, and defended over time. Success is measured not by how quickly systems are deployed, but by how reliably they can be operated, governed, and adapted as conditions change.

What These Trends Mean for Execution

Taken together, these trends reinforce a single reality. Execution now matters more than intent.

The IT trends shaping 2026 tell a consistent story. Enterprises are moving away from ideology and toward execution. Away from complexity for its own sake and toward systems that can be operated, secured, and evolved with confidence.

AI, hybrid cloud, Zero Trust, platforms, automation, and new operating models all deliver value only when they are implemented with architectural discipline, operational foresight, and governance built in from the start.

Technology creates value only when it can be run reliably, securely, and predictably in the real world under real constraints, with real people, and real consequences.

The organizations that succeed will not be those that adopt the most tools. They will be the ones that design IT environments capable of absorbing change without breaking.

How WEI Helps Organizations Execute Their 2026 IT Objectives

As enterprises move from experimentation to execution, success depends on whether strategies can be translated into systems that operate reliably under real-world conditions.

WEI helps organizations execute their 2026 IT objectives by designing, validating, and operationalizing IT environments that can be governed, secured, and sustained over time. With more than two decades of engineering experience, WEI works alongside enterprise teams to align AI readiness, hybrid cloud architecture, security, automation, and operational governance into cohesive systems rather than isolated initiatives.

WEI鈥檚 approach is vendor-agnostic and architecture-first. Highly certified engineers design environments based on business requirements, regulatory constraints, and operational realities rather than product bias, which becomes especially important as AI and automation move into core operations.

Execution challenges most often emerge at integration points. WEI focuses on building and validating the connective tissue that allows platforms to function together at scale, reducing risk as environments span cloud, data center, and edge locations.

WEI designs with day-two operations and resilience in mind. Monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management are addressed from the start, with automation applied using guardrails to preserve control as complexity grows.

People remain central to execution. To address the widespread IT skills gap and sustain modern environments, WEI offers a Technical Apprenticeship for Diverse Candidates service. This program recruits and trains early-career talent tailored to specific organizational needs, immersing apprentices in real technology stacks and mentoring them to be effective contributors. transition into full-time roles with clients, helping organizations build sustainable, diverse, and job-ready technical talent pipelines that reduce onboarding time and long-term staffing risk.

If your organization is evaluating how to meet its 2026 IT objectives without adding unnecessary complexity or risk, WEI can help identify execution gaps and define practical paths forward.

Contact WEI to start a conversation about executing your 2026 IT strategy with confidence.

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The business landscape is marked by rapid innovation, disruption, and intense pressure on IT teams to accelerate digital transformation. As generative AI (GenAI) and natural language processing (NLP) reshape business expectations, the enterprise network emerges as a critical component for delivering data services and enabling technologies. Ensuring optimal network performance and health is important for business success and delivering exceptional user experiences.

AI-powered networking offers a transformative solution to address the growing complexity of networks and the evolving threat landscape. Advanced AI optimizes network performance for applications and users by enhancing and automating various tools and processes. Let’s delve into the specific benefits that AI-powered networking can bring to your business.

Transforming Your Enterprise Network

Traditional IT operations are plagued by several challenges, including:

• A lack of collaboration between network and security teams
• Manual network service provisioning
• Limited visibility into user activity, application traffic, and connected devices
• An IT team overburdened with reactive monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting (MRT), leaving them with less time for proactive improvements that could prevent problems in the first place.

GenAI and NLP are transforming business priorities by driving automation, enhancing security, and optimizing resource allocation. However, with the advent of new technologies, threats are still at large and constantly evolving. To address evolving threats and ensure compliance, a new strategy is crucial – one that embraces zero trust security.

Here’s where AI-powered networking comes in. It acts as a force multiplier for existing network tools, enabling continuous optimization that benefits both applications and users. More importantly for network administrators, AI automates complex IT processes and streamlines network operations (AIOps).

This frees network administrators from tedious tasks, allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives and proactively hunt for threats. The outcome is a demonstrably secure and adaptable enterprise network architecture that empowers both networking and security teams.

The secure and versatile network services architecture created by AI-powered networking paves the way for a multitude of benefits:

1. Collaborative And Enhanced Productivity

For an enterprise network to function optimally, a common foundation for both network operations and security is crucial to ensure seamless user access while effectively addressing ever-evolving cyber threats.

Due to the challenges of the traditional approach to network management, we need a new way to orchestrate data securely, simply, and automatically – which is achieved through AI-powered networking. Here’s how this approach achieves superior network security and management:

• AIOps: Leveraging machine learning (ML) and NLP allows network and security teams to work together using common tools. These tools provide real-time insights and automate routine tasks, freeing up valuable IT resources to focus on strategic initiatives and comprehensive cybersecurity protection.
• Enhanced network performance and uptime: AI-powered networking optimizes network performance and uptime, minimizes disruptions, and ensures critical applications are always available.
• Network as an IoT hub: The network can be transformed into a secure and efficient hub for connecting and managing IoT devices. Compatibility with various protocols and third-party USB connections simplifies the integration of new on-site technologies.
• Greater visibility and control: Gaining deeper visibility into user behavior, application traffic, and connected devices empowers proactive security measures. This allows for the implementation of “deny-first” access controls based on zero-trust principles.
• Digital experience optimization: AI-powered network analytics can unlock valuable insights into user experience and network power consumption. This data can then be used to optimize network performance and user experience.

This shift towards a security-first, AI-powered network empowers your IT teams to be more collaborative, proactive, and efficient. It allows them to maintain and leverage the network as a platform for growth and innovation.

2. A Network Aligned With Business Goals

As your business evolves, its network requirements will too. Are you seeing a growing need to support clients with cutting-edge Wi-Fi technologies like 6GHz or high-bandwidth wired access like 10GbE? Perhaps you’re anticipating increased data demands that need further investment in your campus network and WAN infrastructure. Identifying these emerging needs is crucial for ensuring your network can continue to support your business goals.

To keep pace, organizations need enterprise network solutions that can deliver a consistent and reliable experience for businesses, IT teams, and end-users alike. This network should be intelligent and adaptable, capable of automatically optimizing performance and security.

HPE Aruba Networking Central is fit for the modern workplace as it offers a suite of enterprise network solutions designed to address these challenges and empower your line-of-business initiatives. These solutions leverage network automation, AI-powered networking, and AIOps to simplify network management, including:

• Unified infrastructure operations: Manage your entire network through a single platform, from Wi-Fi and switching to SD-WAN and VPN. This provides network-agnostic visibility and control, allowing easy integration of third-party services like IoT and security solutions.
• Rapid onboarding and deployment: Self-service registration and privacy-centric service availability simplify user onboarding. Cloud-based features like authentication, MPSK, Bonjour, and AirGroup further expedite deployment and reduce administrative burden.
• Automated configuration at scale: Leverage advanced features like NetEdit, port profiles, and cloud-native switch management to automate network changes with minimal disruption.
• AI-powered performance optimization and diagnostics: HPE Aruba Networking Central utilizes ML to continuously monitor and automatically adjust network configurations for optimal user experience, 24/7.
• User experience insights: Gain valuable insights into network and application performance through User Experience Insight (UXI) sensors deployed throughout your network. These sensors identify and aggregate anomalous user experience issues for faster remediation.
• NLP integration: Simplify network diagnostics with NLP-powered search functions within HPE Aruba Networking Central, enabling a more human-like approach to troubleshooting.
• IoT convergence: Easily integrate a wide range of IoT operational products and services with your existing IoT-optimized access point infrastructure.
• Carbon footprint management: Monitor power utilization, carbon emissions, and resource consumption to support corporate sustainability initiatives. Network Central generates environmental impact alerts and reports to provide clear visibility into your network’s ecological footprint.

Moreover, HPE Aruba Networking is offered as a network-as-a-service (NaaS) model. This subscription model delivers full enterprise network solutions on-demand to eliminate upfront costs. NaaS empowers your IT team with AIOps and network automation features like:

• AI-powered insights to optimize performance and prevent issues, ensuring a smooth user experience.
• Outsource the entire network lifecycle, from planning to end-of-life support. This guarantees an up-to-date, secure network.
• Flexible consumption options let you pay only for what you use, accelerating the mean time to value of your network investment.

NaaS offers agility and simplifies network operations, making it a strong contender for the future of enterprise network management. By leveraging HPE Aruba Networking’s solutions, you can build a scalable network that aligns with your evolving business goals. This, in turn, empowers line-of-business initiatives and delivers a consistently positive user experience.

3. Modern Security For Modern Threats

The rise of cloud-native applications, hybrid cloud strategies, and ever-changing compliance requirements necessitates a more granular approach to network security. HPE Aruba Networking simplifies security with a zero-trust approach, ensuring compliant and up-to-date network solutions.

• Unified policy orchestration with automation: Apply consistent security policies across WLAN, switching, and SD-WAN environments with global automation capabilities.
• AI-powered client insights: Proactively identify devices on your network using AI-powered analytics.
• Secure device onboarding and health checks: Ensure only authorized devices with healthy security postures access your network.
• Dynamic segmentation: Enforce least-privilege access controls based on user, application, client, and network context.

HPE Aruba Networking offers a comprehensive Secure Service Edge (SSE) solution that secures remote access to web applications, cloud services, and private applications. It includes ZTNA for granular access control, SWG for web threat protection, CASB for securing SaaS apps, and DEM for performance monitoring and troubleshooting.

HPE Aruba Networking empowers your enterprise network to confidently embrace the cloud while meeting today’s demanding security and compliance needs.

Final Thoughts

Imagine a future where you can deliver exceptional user experiences, accelerate technology adoption, and significantly reduce cyber risks, all with a network that adapts and anticipates your needs. AI-powered networking unlocks a unified infrastructure, empowering your business with a powerful combination of modern cloud-native security, intelligent automation, and flexible consumption. This drives greater efficiency, propelling you further into the digital age.

If you are envisioning the same for your business, our team of networking experts is ready to help you build a responsive network that fuels your digital success. Contact us today.

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Businesses constantly pursue strategies to enhance their IT infrastructure and leverage data-driven insights to drive growth and innovation. With the rise of insights-driven enterprises, the importance of unlocking the full potential of business data has become increasingly evident.

As businesses embark on this modernization journey, they face various challenges, particularly in areas such as security and data management. To shed light on these burdens, WEI works alongside industry experts to gain valuable insights on data utilization and cybersecurity to guide customers to meaningful IT modernization.

Understanding Pain Points And Embracing Modernization

In a recent WEI podcast focused on IT infrastructure modernization and its critical role in leveraging business data effectively, experts Matt Leal, Shawn Murphy, and former White House CIO Theresa Payton discuss the practicalities and strategic importance of data modernization.

While the benefits of modernization are undeniable, challenges like cybersecurity loom large. Shawn Murphy, Cybersecurity 疯情AV Architect at WEI, emphasizes these burdens:

• Expanding Threat Landscape: With cloud computing, remote work, and SaaS services, the attack surface has become much larger and is constantly changing. This makes it harder to pinpoint what needs protection.
• Data Proliferation: The increase in data collection leads to an extensive attack surface. It could overwhelm security teams with information and hinder their ability to analyze it effectively.
• Inability To Stop All Breaches: News reports may highlight some breaches, but the reality is likely much worse. The FBI estimates that in losses. This doesn’t account for unreported breaches or losses like damaged reputation or privacy violations.

“Proactive measures are crucial,” Murphy explains, as WEI focuses its cybersecurity solutions heavily within the prevention phase. He also highlights the importance of developing useful metrics to measure the effectiveness of cybersecurity initiatives.

Additionally, Matt Leal, Presales 疯情AV Architect at WEI, shares the importance of a holistic solution. “While some industries are more advanced, any organization can progress with the right support. Our customers span various industries. Each has its own challenges, but we provide tailored solutions to overcome them.” Murphy adds that healthcare, for example, has specific data privacy regulations that may hinder cloud adoption. However, partnering with a Value-Added Reseller (VAR) like WEI can help organizations navigate these complexities and accelerate modernization.

Theresa Payton, former White House Chief Information Officer and currently the CEO at , emphasizes the importance of human-centric stories in aligning technology initiatives with business strategies. She believes that understanding the human element is crucial for successful secured digital transformation.

In this context, a strategic and holistic approach to IT modernization takes center stage. Prioritizing robust cybersecurity measures becomes essential to safeguard and enhance business operations.

To connect technology effectively with people, she suggests the following:

• Prioritize The Human Element: Understand who you serve and their needs. Whether it’s employees, customers, or any other user group, identify their goals and challenges.
• Position Technology As A Solution: Instead of merely listing features, explain how technology addresses specific needs and improves the user experience.
• Tailor Your Message: When communicating with executives, frame your message around “secured digital transformation” that supports the human user story.

By keeping the human element at the center and demonstrating how technology serves it, organizations can bridge the gap and ensure that technology empowers the people it’s meant to serve. Understanding your audience and enhancing user experiences are critical steps in achieving organizational goals through advanced solutions.

The Crucial Role of Secure Data Storage

Data-driven insights are now the cornerstone of a successful business strategy. In fact, research shows that enterprises leveraging these insights are . However, complexities mentioned by Murphy can arise from data collection, analysis, and infrastructure management. Trusted partnerships with experienced technology providers, such as the case between HPE and WEI, can be crucial in navigating these hurdles.

Data security should be a paramount concern from the very beginning, meticulously woven into every aspect of the infrastructure, from the initial capture of data all the way through to its disposal. By prioritizing data security throughout the entire process, businesses can ensure they’re building a foundation of trust with their customers and stakeholders.

The concept of “secure by design” aligns with this need. It means cybersecurity is built into technology from the start and seamlessly aligns with business objectives. As we delve into the challenges faced by organizations like yours, our experts also explore the critical security considerations surrounding data storage. Leal reinforces this by pointing out that “modern solutions are often the most secure,”聺 underlining the importance of embracing innovation to combat evolving threats.

One such secure and adaptive modern solution is HPE Alletra. This storage platform is designed for the complexities of the modern IT landscape, functioning as an ally against data breaches. Built on the sturdy foundation of and powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, the Alletra series delivers on performance, scalability, and crucially, security.

By assuming breaches will happen at any time, organizations can build stronger systems. This means having good checks and balances, clear rules for data, and even special techniques to protect it.

While data security is important, Payton argues organizations have a bigger responsibility to protect everyone involved. This means thinking about how data affects people, the risk of breaches, and what they owe those who trust them.

The best companies practice a culture of “care” for data. This ensures it’s always used and stored ethically and responsibly. Organizations need to ask, “Is this data really needed, or are we just collecting it because we can?” A culture of care makes companies consider the ethical side of things too.

Final Thoughts

The key to success in today’s digital world lies in embracing innovation, leveraging data effectively and responsibly, and prioritizing far-left cybersecurity throughout your operations. Navigating modernization isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. WEI can help by offering tailored solutions and expert guidance for businesses, from implementing cutting-edge technologies to developing robust cybersecurity strategies.

Reach out to our experienced team for more insights and assistance on your modernization journey.

Next steps: In a digitally connected hybrid world, security is a shared responsibility. The weakest link can potentially expose everyone connected. That is why HPE has created a vision to make security an inherent part of all operations as it manages more than two million devices and over one exabyte of data through its expansive HPE GreenLake platform.

In this , we identify: 

• Hybrid’s impact on cybersecurity
• HPE’s vision of security
• Siloed vs. shared security
• New approaches to cybersecurity talent
• Creating your own talent pipeline
• Resilience through Zero Trust

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Picture yourself as the proud owner of a classic car, a vintage beauty you’ve painstakingly restored with a significant investment of resources. It’s more than just a car; it’s a symbol of your dedication. Data, like your classic car, is a business’s most valuable asset. Just as you wouldn’t leave the car exposed to the elements, you need to securely store and protect your organization’s information.

You wouldn’t just throw a tarp over your precious vehicle. You would place it out of the elements, away from opportunists who might see your car as an easy steal. Managing and maintaining mission-critical applications demands that same level of care and protection for your data. This is where HPE Primera comes to the rescue.

Unmatched Data Storage And Performance

When looking for a data storage solution, your enterprise needs to prioritize operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. HPE Primera stands out by offering cloud-like agility, unified data management, and new standards for resiliency and performance in an enterprise storage solution. It possesses a set of features well-suited for the modern data center environment, such as:

1. Extreme Resiliency

HPE Primera provides a 100% Availability Guarantee to ensure your data’s constant accessibility. Think of it like an easy-to-operate and reliable garage for your classic car. With automatic weekly updates and upgrades, downtime is minimal, and your data stays secure and intact.

2. Intelligent Operations

Investing in a vintage car demands a garage capable of proactive issue resolution. HPE Primera, powered by HPE InfoSight, an AI-driven intelligence platform, excels in this regard by resolving storage problems in real-time. This, in turn, reduces workloads and eliminates human errors to ensure continuous data safety.

Additionally, the HPE Primera OS offers advanced data services with simplicity and enhanced resiliency for mission-critical applications. Unlike monolithic operating systems (OS) that pose upgrade risks and necessitate node reboots, HPE Primera utilizes a services-centric OS which allows for independent deployment, upgrading, and restarting of each data service.

3. Timeless And Cost-Efficient Storage

HPE Primera provides guaranteed data reduction ratios at a flat support price, with a technology refresh every three years. This eliminates the need for costly upgrades and ensures businesses benefit from updated data storage technology.

4. Scalable Architecture

HPE Primera’s modular design offers flexibility and customization for modern businesses. It seamlessly scales to meet evolving requirements, just as your garage flexes to store more tools that contribute to maintaining your car collection.

Its container-based architecture offers:

• Streamlined multi-node configurations and provisioning.
• Effective management of both traditional and next-generation applications.

As a result, these guarantee a seamless I/O for predictable performance and low latency.

5. Hybrid Cloud Capabilities

HPE Primera is equipped with the following features to manage and migrate various workloads, including:

• Seamless integration and mobility of mission-critical apps (such as SAP HANA, VMWare, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server) to primary, secondary, and private/public cloud tiers like AWS, Scality, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
• . Businesses can restore data in mere seconds, rather than minutes or hours.

6. Security

HPE Primera prioritizes data privacy and compliance. By default, it encrypts your data and employs tamper-evident security measures to maintain data integrity. This system not only secures your data, but also actively detects and alerts you to any unauthorized access or tampering attempts.

7. Green Storage Solution

HPE Primera is not just a high-performance garage. With its , the appliance operates with minimal carbon footprint and has lower cooling costs than other Tier 0 storage solutions.

Final Thoughts

As the volume of data continues to grow, managing and maintaining mission-critical applications for your business requires high-performing and resilient storage solutions. HPE Primera is a comprehensive service that seamlessly combines cloud storage’s agility with high-end storage system performance and security.

This intelligent choice is perfect for businesses seeking efficient and reliable storage solutions. Whether you require a platform for intensive applications, hybrid cloud capabilities, data privacy, or energy efficiency, HPE Primera has you covered. Contact the storage experts at WEI and take the first step to secure your data and unlock your business’s full potential.

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Enterprises are facing a growing skills IT gap that is threatening their abilities to effectively manage and modernize their existing IT infrastructures. While mainframe computing and COBOL-based applications continue to be phased out in favor of cloud-based infrastructure, many enterprises still rely on these sunset technologies to support their large operations. Even enterprises that are migrating from these legacy environments to modern deployments need IT professionals capable of supporting their full IT stacks.

Yet, hiring and retaining IT professionals with this diverse skill set is a rising challenge for IT leaders. The reality is, a growing number of experienced IT professionals are retiring every day, and next-generation IT talent is entering the workforce without the necessary knowledge to support legacy infrastructure as higher education institutions no longer prioritize these still-in-demand competencies. The result is a shrinking talent pipeline and serious skills gap that jeopardizes enterprises’ abilities to successfully support legacy technology and complete digital transformations that drive business results. This leaves IT leaders straining to find new talent with legacy skills sets to replace their aging workforces.

WEI, an innovative technology solutions provider, offers a compelling solution that addresses this disparity. Read on to discover how the WEI can help your organization bridge the widening skills gap.

The WEI Technical Apprenticeship for Diverse Candidates

WEI’s innovative service helps IT leaders hire and develop early-career IT talent to bridge the skills and diversity gaps. Our four-pronged approach delivers a highly customized process that is aligned with your specific business objectives, IT needs, and corporate culture.

Step 1: Identify the Apprenticeship Plan and Your Expectations

Our team works closely with you to understand the role you need to fill, your technology stack, and your unique requirements. From there, we will design best-in-class training focused on both technical and soft skills.

Step 2: Hire the Apprentice

WEI’s apprenticeship program identifies diverse, qualified individuals with strong theoretical backgrounds to create a talent pool for our clients. To help narrow the field of potential apprentices, all candidates are assessed against job suitability criteria specific to your business to ensure they align with your needs. Top candidates are presented to you, allowing your team to make the final decision.

Step 3: Deliver the Development Plan

WEI’s specialized engineers work directly with the chosen apprentice over a series of months, offering in-depth training and hands-on experience within your IT environment to help the apprentice acquire the necessary technical skills. Throughout the apprenticeship, you will also interact with the candidate, providing essential mentorship that will help the apprentice become a valuable asset to your organization.

Step 4: Transfer Apprentice to Full-time Employment

At the conclusion of the apprenticeship, you will have the opportunity to hire the apprentice full time. Your organization’s engagement with the candidate during the apprenticeship period offers the insight necessary to help you confidently make this decision. But, the decision is yours. There is no obligation to hire the apprentice full time.

The Value of the WEI Apprenticeship Service

To help our customers navigate emerging technologies and address their evolving business challenges, we continually provide our internal IT team with technical learning opportunities. Through our apprentice program, we are able to transfer this knowledge to fresh IT talent to help solve your technical staffing challenges and support your continued success.

Managing Entry-level Talent

Developing and managing early technical career talent is time-consuming, and in today’s fast-paced IT landscape, where resources are limited, and employees are asked to do more with less, managing performance is often overlooked. Our apprenticeship program takes this task off your hands, utilizing our seasoned engineers to train your future workforce.

Strengthening Organizational Diversity in Technical Functions

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has emerged as a critical focus for enterprises. Yet, finding diverse candidates with the appropriate qualifications can be challenging. As a minority-owned business, WEI understands the importance of inclusion and diversity of thought, gender, and ethnicity. Our apprenticeship service was purposefully designed to introduce diversity across your technical team.

Controlling Recruiting Costs

By finding upcoming talent for your organization, WEI helps you avoid expensive recruiting campaigns and time-consuming candidate interviews. This allows your IT team to remain focused on their core competencies to drive business success.

Addressing Shifting Employee Demographics

As if the recruiting process was not difficult enough, COVID-19 added a new wrinkle, decentralizing workforces from key metropolitan markets to disparate locations. This geographic diversity makes finding local talent even more challenging. WEI apprenticeship tackles this issue for you.

Bolstering Engagement and Retention

Retaining talent amidst an IT skills shortage can be challenging. However, according to one, 94% of employees would remain more loyal to a company that invested in their learning. By providing new talent with personalized attention, the WEI apprenticeship model helps individuals build a career pathway, while improving your retention rates.

Offering Upskilling Opportunities That Enrich the Existing Workforce

Technology evolves rapidly, making it difficult for IT professionals to keep pace. The WEI apprenticeship offers upskilling opportunities for the apprentice that can strengthen your entire workforce and keep your business on the cutting edge.

Final Thoughts

As your organization continues to modernize your existing infrastructure, trust the WEI Technical Apprenticeship for Diverse Candidates to find and develop next-generation talent that can support your full IT stack and continually deliver business value.

Are you ready to learn more about the Contact our team today.

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Thanks to increasingly effective servers, meteorologists are predicting weather more accurately, scientists are crafting new vaccines using genetic sequencing, and doctors are diagnosing patients faster with the best resources available. As technology advances, however, the demands placed on servers also increases. indicate that by the end of 2023, the internet will be comprised of 114 zettabytes of information, and that number will only increase with time. This equation leads to increased energy consumption which means more heat production. Increased heat production often results in a decrease in system performance.

To combat this issue, Dell has incorporated AI-driven cooling into its . This exciting technology uses thermal and mechanical simulation tools to optimize cooling and ensure sustained system performance. In this article, we discuss the benefits of smart cooling technology and how it is helping Dell EMC continue to push the boundaries of technological innovation.

How Does Smart Cooling Technology Work?

There are three primary methods servers employ to ensure that the system is not overwhelmed by heat production. This includes air cooling (or multi-vector cooling), direct liquid cooling (DLC), immersion cooling, or a combination of these technologies.

Each of these options come with their own benefits and methods, which I have outlined in detail below:

Air Cooling: Multi-vector cooling (MVC) maximizes the potential of air cooling. This cutting-edge technology employs a complex system of cost-effective and high-performing fans and heatsinks that streamline airflow and air temperature distribution across the chassis.

If the fans and heatsinks were not enough, the design of the system itself is engineered to prevent systems from overheating. In PowerEdge servers, the motherboard is T-shaped, and the power supply units are located at each corner of the chassis. This allows for improved airflow and system cooling.

Direct Liquid Cooling: This smart cooling technology uses liquid to absorb and remove heat created by high-power processors. For those concerned about potential leaks, Dell solutions also include Leak Sense technology. This intelligent system alerts customers of minor and major leaks and offers increased configuration.

Immersion Cooling: This cooling method is designed for power-dense systems operating in spaces with little or no conditioned air. In immersion cooling, the systems are submerged in a tank of liquid which captures 100% of the heat.

Making Smart Cooling Technology Smarter

When combined, air cooling, direct liquid cooling, and immersion cooling provide increased assurance that your system will not overheat or suffer any performance issues. But what really sets PowerEdge servers apart is the integration of artificial intelligence and system tools.

Dell’s servers now offer OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager, a tool which gives customers full insight and control of how their system prioritizes cooling. Here are a few ways this system serves customers:

• Allows users to monitor and manage power and thermal consumption for individual and groups of servers.
• Provides reports to help meet sustainability goals.
• Utilizes policies to set power caps at the rack or group level.
• Supports enhanced visualization of data center racks with power and thermal readings.
• Informs users of the power of virtual machine usage for a physical device.
• Shares information on server performance metrics.

This smart cooling system includes an integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). This tool allows users to maximize resource use and adjust power when there is a decreased demand for performance. The Power Manager also provides pre-defined power policies, ensuring that users’ key workloads continue to operate.

Smart Cooling Technology And Sustainability

While performance is a primary concern for most IT-centric companies, preserving the environment is also of growing importance. Fortunately, customers who implement PowerEdge servers into their system will have a clean conscious.

Here are a few ways these servers have integrated environmentalism into their strategies:

• Decreased Drain On Energy Resources: Using the tools Power Manager provides, users will reduce expenses, maintain availability, and decrease power usage.
• Fewer Replacements: By using tools like MVC and DLC to keep your systems cool, users will replace tools less frequently. This will not only save you money but also decrease your carbon footprint.
• Power Caps: OpenManage allows administrators to place power caps on racks/rows/rooms of servers. When used effectively (especially when performance demand is lower) this has a significant impact on the energy drain of a data center.

Final Thoughts

Whether you are looking for ways to decrease your expenses, reduce your carbon footprint, or improve your system performance, smart cooling technology is the right choice for you. If you would like to begin integrating Dell’s PowerEdge servers into your system, we can get you started. We help businesses of all sizes every step of the way, from purchase through implementation. Contact us today to discover which tools are the right fit for you!

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The quantity and severity of ransomware attacks are expected to rise once again in 2023, and businesses need to take steps to protect themselves from these costly and disruptive incidents. According to , “Ransomware will cost its victims around $265 billion (USD) annually by 2031.” These attacks have a devastating impact on enterprises, causing critical data loss and downtime. In addition, businesses may also be liable for the cost of the ransomware attack itself.

Because organizations generate a large amount of data every day and have increasingly large workloads moving between hybrid and multi-cloud environments, unified storage has become important for ransomware protection. In this post, we cover what unified storage is and how it addresses ransomware.

What Is Unified Storage?

Unified storage is a single platform that manages data from multiple sources, whether they be on-premises or in the cloud. This makes it an ideal solution for businesses looking to move to hybrid or multi-cloud environments, as it eliminates the need to manage data across multiple platforms.

, director of product marketing for storage services at Nutanix writes, “Supporting data access where it’s created and consumed is critical, and a unified approach to storage delivery is foundational. Unified storage provides a software-based, consolidated storage solution on top of many flexible shared-nothing nodes. Pooling resources and putting the intelligence in the software layer creates flexibility of scale, allowing for deployments of any size that can fit any deployment location.”

This can be helpful because it makes it easier for your IT team to find and use your data. Unified storage also provides ransomware protection and data loss prevention, making it an essential tool for companies of all sizes.

Benefits Of NCP Unified Storage

Unified storage is designed to help businesses by providing a single view of all enterprise data, regardless of where it is stored. This enables IT teams to make judgments about how much capacity remains in the storage pool in the event of a ransomware attack.

, a global leader in cloud software, has created helpful data storage solutions with their cloud platform. The Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) is a unified storage platform that delivers ransomware protection, data storage solutions, and simplified operations. It helps eliminate storage silos and provides a common platform for file, object, and block storage along with virtualized workloads.

Nutanix file storage led to:

• 60% more efficient IT storage management
• 82% less time needed to deploy new files storage
• 56% more efficient IT security teams
• 75% less time needed to deploy new objects storage

These benefits make Nutanix a leading choice for unified storage, ransomware protection, and data storage solutions.

Ransomware Protection With Nutanix Unified Storage

Nutanix unified storage solutions also offer strong ransomware protection and data recovery capabilities. Nutanix provides a unified storage solution that is secure from the ground up. Their security baseline documents are based on U.S. DoD STIGs and cover the entire infrastructure stack. This ensures that your data is safe when deployed in the field.

Nutanix offers unified storage solutions with robust security features, including self-encrypting drives and software-only encryption capabilities. This provides peace of mind that your data is safe at rest. To ensure data in transit protocols, Nutanix features secure in-flight encryption for SMB, NFS, and S3 and WORM support for both files and objects.

Data Lens

Nutanix provides customers with the highest levels of data security available, offering visibility and control with Data Lens. Data Lens is an advanced software-as-a-service solution that provides analytics and ransomware defense for Nutanix unified storage. With Data Lens, users can benefit from ransomware protection, audit trails, anomaly detection, and data age analytics.

Ransomware protection includes file blocking with automatic signature updates and ransomware file access pattern detection. When ransomware events are found, you can choose to block the client and user or set the entire file server to read-only. Further, a snapshot is automatically taken at the time of the attack to provide a recovery point. Recovery workflows flag all files which may have been impacted and recommend which snapshot to restore. In the words of WEI’s Senior Architect and Virtualization Ambassador, , “If you’re looking to develop a business continuity plan as well as a disaster recovery plan, there’s a lot of cool things you can do with just those core capabilities they have of doing snapshots.”

Conclusion

Businesses are particularly vulnerable to ransomware attacks as they have valuable data that is targeted. To protect your business from ransomware, it is important to have a reliable data storage solution in place that effectively addresses these threats.

A unified storage system provides ransomware protection by combining multiple layers of security features into one unified platform. This can help to ensure your data is safe from ransomware and that you can quickly and easily recover from any attacks that occur. Also, unified storage systems offer performance and scalability benefits that can be essential for businesses with large amounts of data.

If you are looking for a data storage solution to protect your business from ransomware, Nutanix offers a terrific option. With its combination of security features and performance benefits, Nutanix’s storage tool can help keep your data safe and your business running smoothly. Contact us today to learn more about how unified storage solutions can help you improve your cybersecurity and facilitate a smooth recovery.

Next Steps: Listen to Mark Gabryjelski’s advice in this to learn more about unified storage and how it addresses ransomware. Mark leads numerous Nutanix workshops annually, which are accessible to WEI customers.

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Enterprises modernizing their IT infrastructure to keep up with the demand of a changing workforce need more from their storage providers. With the work-from-anywhere model here to stay, an enterprise storage solution that offers on-demand, always-on, and easy-to-use services is a must.

As more enterprises move forward with their modernization efforts to support this shift in the workforce, agility is a key requirement of high-end storage. It is clear that the more purpose-built, statically defined scale-up designs of the past need to give way to more software-defined, modular scale-out designs.

Modern enterprises need a high-end storage solution that leverages AI/ML technologies, in combination with automation and continuous availability, to improve and simplify routine management tasks at scale. It is also important to be able to operate in hybrid cloud environments while also delivering a rich, secure storage management operating system.

There is one high-end storage solution that meets all these requirements and more: HPE Primera Intelligent Storage. Keep reading to learn 10 reasons why HPE Primera meets your enterprise’s high-end storage needs.

10 Reasons Why Your Enterprise Needs HPE Primera Intelligent Storage

1. Global Intelligence: With HPE InfoSight embedded into HPE Primera, disruptions are predicted and prevented in real-time to help optimize performance.
2. Services-centric OS: Mission-critical apps benefit from reduced risk and enhanced resiliency with HPE Primera’s simplified and unique OS for high-end storage without node reboots for most updates.
3. 100% availability guarantee: Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, HPE Primera analyzes application patterns while also predicting and preventing disruptions across the infrastructure. The solution also provides business continuity with automatic site failover. With no disruptions, corruptions, or delays using app-aware resiliency across all models, HPE Primera provides a 100% availability guarantee.
4. Timeless storage: This all-inclusive software provides a unique ownership experience with unending value. You won’t pay for additional features and enhancements, and the software will update every three years.
5. Radical simplicity: With HPE Primera, your time spent deploying, managing, and scaling your storage needs is reduced up to 93%. HPE Primera is able to tune itself and implement upgrades without slowing your ability to serve your customers.
6. As-a-service consumption: Using HPE Primera with HPE Greenlake offers you the ability to consume IT on your terms. Get exactly what you need when you need it with its ability to use high-end storage-as-a-service capabilities.
7. Intelligence and composability: HPE Primera’s integration with HPE Synergy advances the cloud experience, providing a foundation of composability for any workload.
8. All-active architecture: Every volume within your storage architecture is able to access every SSD, node, and port, providing nonstop availability and low latency for fast performance at scale.
9. Extreme scalability: HPE Primera has made scaling high-end storage a breeze using multi-node transparent upgrades. Your storage needs are able to grow with the needs of your enterprise, intelligently adjusting to your unique business demands.
10. Hybrid cloud mobility: Extend your protection to the cloud. With less cost and complexity, HPE Primera’s cloud mobility delivers:

• Flash speed
• Application-integrated data protection
• Copy data management
• Data mobility

Seamlessly, securely, and cost-effectively move your enterprise’s data across primary, secondary, and private/public cloud tiers. With a simple cloud-based archive or disaster recovery option, you’re able to use your on-premises infrastructure for fast, reliable operational recovery.

Ready To Redefine Your High-End Storage?

HPE Primera is redefining high-end storage to ensure that modern needs are being met as simply and easily as possible. Problems that plague more traditional storage systems, such as risky upgrades and complex management systems, are fixed through intelligent design to keep enterprises going strong through their modernization efforts. If you’re ready to make the change now, contact WEI to begin building a custom solution for your business.

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Ensuring a strong defense against security breaches is an essential part of any modern business. Being responsible for important data like financial and medical records or other private information means you simply cannot ignore proper security protocols. Enterprise data security and protection is a crucial part of any company’s IT structure. Fortunately, there are simple yet powerful data storage solutions that guarantee data security and protection along with solid recoverability options.

The Importance Of Data Security And Protection

As organizations grow, more data is created across various environments. This growth can also lead to an expansion of threat landscapes. According to Forbes, the average number of cyberattacks and data breaches last year increased by 15.1% from 2020. Complexities in computing continue to grow and cybercriminals are seeking to exploit vulnerabilities, making data security and protection more important than ever. Any business can suffer from a data breach, so any assets used to enhance your business must remain confidential and secure.

Data security solutions can help IT leaders obtain increased visibility and insights to investigate and remediate cyber threats and provide protected storage for enterprise data to reduce risk. Implementing data security solutions helps add extra layers of data security and protection, which can go a long way in preventing unauthorized access to your company’s system. If you want to avoid data breaches, you may want to consider data security solutions such as from Dell Technologies.

Dell PowerStore Overview

Dell PowerStore is a next-generation data storage solution with a focus on data-centric workloads, intelligent automation, adaptable infrastructure, and enhanced security. It helps consolidate storage and virtual server environments to ultimately optimize and protect modern workloads from core to edge to cloud.

The Dell PowerStore platform includes two major configurations including PowerStore T and PowerStore X. This data storage solution can scale up and out for rapidly changing environments. PowerStore is an adaptable solution that can enable speed and application mobility and offers flexible deployment.

Last, but not least, it provides data-in-place upgrades so your business can gain a modernized infrastructure without any downtime involved. This platform sets a new standard for data storage for its flexibility, performance, and ease of use.

Top 6 Reasons To Choose Dell PowerStore

Let’s dive into the primary reasons so many customers implement Dell Powerstore:

1. Software-Driven Design
   

This software-first service is meant to work with diverse and distributed workloads. Dell can deliver new capabilities quicker since the PowerStore operation system is modular and agile.

2. Adaptable Architecture
   

As mentioned earlier, this platform is designed to accommodate change by adapting physically and operationally to your business needs. The provided speed and application mobility can help this platform adjust to your strategy as you go and no matter where your data resides.

3. Built-In Intelligence
   

With its incorporated AI and Machine Learning capabilities, Dell PowerStore simplifies management and optimizes system resources. Through a programmable infrastructure, it also helps monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot the environment for up to a 99% reduction in management effort.

4. Predictive Analytics
   

Dell PowerStore works with its built-in AI to help you gather insights on multiple infrastructure categories such as servers, storage, networking, and cloud. PowerStore can also help with staff productivity, reduced risk, and forecasting future needs with its AIOPs application, CloudIQ.

5. AppsOn
   

AppsOn is a PowerStore capability that allows customers to bring applications closer to storage by running them as virtual machines that run directly on PowerStore. Overall, it enables agility by allowing seamless movement between the PowerStore appliances and VMware ESXi servers.

6. Advanced Data Protection And Security
   

Part of PowerStore’s capabilities include Data At Rest Encryption (D@RE) and Snapshots. These solutions ensure that enterprise data is protected from physical theft and substitute drive disposal processes. As Dell Technologies likes to say, cybersecurity is built into PowerStore’s DNA!

If you’d like to learn more top reasons why Dell PowerStore works for many businesses, click .

Conclusion

Dell PowerStore is the fastest growing new architecture aimed at keeping businesses future-ready and data secure. 疯情AV like this can help ensure your IT team is fully prepared to prevent ransomware attacks as well as have the ability to recover from attacks quickly and effectively.

If your organization would like guidance on figuring out data security solutions, turn your questions into solutions and contact WEI today. Our experts can help you gain greater visibility and insight and remediate cyber threats.

Next Steps: Discover the importance of safeguarding your company’s data and why your enterprise should invest in data security solutions by downloading our tech brief, “.”

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You would be living under a very, very large rock if you were unaware of the incredible post-pandemic evolution taking shape across the digital landscape. The effects that this evolution has had on industries across the globe are seismic. Organizations need to adapt to new technologies, platforms, and business models in order to keep up with digital trends and meet business goals. A key part of staying on top of these growing demands is to accelerate digital transformation with a complete server refresh. This upgrade will not only help your company be more competitive, but it will also help with improved IT infrastructure and faster performance. Let’s take a closer look at why you should refresh your servers.

The Importance Of A Server Refresh

Servers are an enterprise foundation, and they truly define what can be accomplished. With newer or updated servers, you can be more efficient and deliver better business outcomes. WEI engineers explain that updating servers and other vital hardware can improve consistency, not only in the reliability of the equipment but also in saving costs and helping accelerate digital transformation through implementing updated equipment. Ultimately, a server refresh can ensure your business is running on the latest equipment, making it easier for IT environments and your digital transformation. If you find that your system isn’t capable of meeting the demands of constant technology acceleration, here are three reasons your organization should consider a server refresh.

1. Improved Server Performance

A server refresh allows you to accelerate digital transformation with a modern operating system. This makes it easier to leverage the latest versions of applications in order to expand your abilities and server performance. Refreshing your server ultimately leads to a better capability to meet business goals. According to , “Organizations have the potential to realize over $123,000 in additional revenue per server, per year by taking advantage of the higher performance, improved agility, and greater scalability of new servers.”

2. Protection From Cyber Threats

Ransomware attacks are on the rise. reports, “In 2021, the average number of cyberattacks and data breaches increased by 15.1% from the previous year.” With a server refresh, your data center can be equipped with integrated security features that can protect and defend valuable data. As a responsible IT leader, you cannot leave your organization’s most valuable asset vulnerable!

3. An Automated Environment

Upgrading your servers can help your enterprise take full advantage of today’s technology. A modernized IT infrastructure naturally leads to improved management since the amount of physical hardware needed decreases. When workloads are automated, you also save resources and time.

Why Conduct A Server Refresh Now?

As you are most likely aware already, older servers frequently run on outdated operating systems, which creates a vulnerability for your business. A server refresh will allow your organization to flourish. It is recommended that businesses refresh servers about every three years.

With a modernized approach to IT infrastructure, you have the ability to invest in emerging technologies at a quicker pace than those who are falling behind. A server refresh drives greater benefits like the three listed above and can help deliver applications that better meet end-user needs.

A Modern Server Refresh

Modernizing a business has many benefits from security enhancement to increased efficiency. Keeping up with the ever-evolving, data-driven technology of today can be a challenge for many organizations. However, solutions like are a powerful tool for businesses to accelerate digital transformation and are designed to grow with your company. Since a regular server refresh is now an important IT requirement, it’s important to maximize performance with comprehensive tech solutions like Dell’s.

Dell PowerEdge adapts to business needs and includes three state-of-the-art features worth recognizing:

1. Scalable business architecture: Flexible internal storage leads to maximized performance across an array of applications.
2. Intelligent automation: The entire lifecycle of the server can be automated with embedded intelligence, supporting increased productivity.
3. Integrated security: Deep levels of defense are built into the hardware and firmware of every server, protecting you and your customers.

The PowerEdge server has a rich portfolio of servers including rack servers, tower servers, and management software.

Conclusion

Adhering to refresh cycles will move your business forward with the benefits of reduced costs, enhanced performance and productivity, and mitigated cyber threats. Make sure to evaluate your IT infrastructure and overall organizational needs before pursuing a server refresh.

If you’re interested in getting started with updating your servers, WEI has the resources necessary to help you understand how to best manage yours. Contact our IT experts today to learn more.

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Business information has always been an important commodity. Due to this, it’s necessary for data security to be a top priority in every enterprise. The immense value and volume of data continues to increase as companies expand with digital transformation and extend their geographical footprint. Protecting information must be at the top of the list when organizations consider what they should focus on for enterprise growth. If a breach occurs, businesses may lose more than just time and money – they can also lose their customers’ trust. Fortunately, there are solutions to help organizations safeguard sensitive data, mitigate cyberattacks, and manage infrastructure demands.

Why Data Security Is A Trending Investment Among IT Leaders

A large percentage of enterprises are giving the keys to their annual investments to their IT leaders. Due to the , companies are spending more than ever to stay protected. According to , “spending on information security and risk management will total $172 billion in 2022, up from $155 billion in 2021 and $137 billion the year before.” Since companies are outgrowing antiquated data protection systems, it’s important for IT leaders to invest in cybersecurity solutions to prevent risk and stay current with regulations.

Not only does this investment help improve customer experience and enhance operational efficiency, but it can greatly enhance data security solutions, too. states, “Businesses suffered 50% more cyberattack attempts per week in 2021.” This number is forecasted to grow each year as more and more companies store their data in the cloud. in 2021 increased by 105% over 2020, which is more than triple the number seen in 2019. Unfortunately, we can only expect this to increase in the coming years. As such, it’s no surprise that IT leaders are investing in data security to heighten the efforts needed to improve their cybersecurity.

The distressing number of cyberattacks has made many organizations rethink their cybersecurity solutions. A predominant trend for companies trying to improve their data security is investing in next-generation cybersecurity technologies that use artificial intelligence and automation to analyze security-related data points and locate the most concerning actions. This is where comes into play.

How Dell PowerStore Can Help With Data Security

Dell PowerStore is a groundbreaking appliance for data storage. Providing customers with a data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure that supports every type of workload, this simple, powerful, and versatile platform streamlines data security operations. By using a container-based microservices architecture, integrated machine learning, and advanced storage technologies, Dell PowerStore can help you make the most of your data and keep it secure. Some of the key data security capabilities of this platform are as follows:

1. DARE

Data At Rest Encryption (DARE) is a cyber resiliency feature that helps ensure data security by preventing unauthorized access to critical data. It uses Self-Encrypting Drives (SEDs) for primary storage. This feature can protect valuable data that could become compromised by blocking attacks and making it difficult for intruders to identify and steal information. DARE can also assist businesses in complying with privacy and security regulations.

Encryption is also performed within each drive before the data is written to the media, ultimately protecting the data on the drive against loss, theft, or attempts to read the drive directly by physically deconstructing the drive. Overall, the encrypted drives keep enterprise data secure.

2. Snapshots

Snapshots provide an easy and efficient way to protect local data. In the event of data corruption or deletion, Snapshots provide copies of the data and have the ability to instantly recover from these events. This is done by going back to an older point in time, or by copying the affected data from the snapshot. This feature is one of the most effective ways to safeguard important data across a wide range of industries.

PowerStore snapshots are ideal for recovering instantly from a ransomware attack because they are completely read-only and can’t be manipulated. They can be created manually or automatically with protection policies, and only users with an administrator role can manage snapshot policies.

3. PowerProtect Cyber Recovery

Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery offers a data security solution that stores critical data away from attack surfaces. This feature can protect against external and insider threats through the deployment of a Cyber Recovery “vault.” With its multiple layers of protection, it physically isolates the data, keeping it from the attack surface. Through its many safeguards, Cyber Recovery can help businesses quickly identify a clean copy of data and recover essential systems to help keep your company operational.

An intelligent layer is also added for extra protection with the analytics engine. This integration helps find data corruption if a cyberattack infiltrates the data center or backup environments. With the help of machine learning, enterprises can identify threats while protecting critical data.

Compromised data can lead to many issues for an organization. If you would like to learn more about helpful cybersecurity solutions for your company’s data security, contact WEI today. Our enterprise cybersecurity team can also assist in assessing your organization’s current vulnerabilities to help you stay protected from potential threats.

Next Steps: If you are interested in learning the differences between data protection and data storage and why both are required for meaningful digital transformation,

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Almost every enterprise across many different industries is using cloud infrastructure to help meet business goals more efficiently. Developing strategies that include multiple clouds can help with reduced IT costs and flexibility. The majority of businesses plan to implement hybrid and multi-cloud solutions to maximize efficiency. In fact, of businesses are already moving to a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy. In this article, we discuss hybrid and multi-cloud efficiency and what’s required to implement the transition to this strategy. After all, the days of single cloud use are just about obsolete for mid-size enterprises and up.

Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Efficiency

The term hybrid with multi-cloud means an organization uses a mix of on-premises along with either, or both, private and public clouds from multiple providers within their IT infrastructure. Cloud adoption is quickly becoming a necessary step in keeping up with digital transformation and evolving technologies. This means businesses will be focused on creating the best mix of public and private clouds for higher efficiency and minimized costs.

This approach is practical for many enterprises since it helps maintain and benefit from the systems and data that have been built over time. Hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure can provide greater control on data distribution options and storage for companies of all sizes. It is also a perfect solution for those looking to choose what makes sense for each component of your business. You can maintain existing platforms and integrate them with new capabilities.

Some IT decision makers may find that running cloud services with multiple providers is a challenging strategy, but it doesn’t have to be a difficult process. IT teams can use a centralized management system throughout all cloud environments no matter where the applications are operating. Both public and private cloud infrastructure run separately, so using the right technology that allows an easy transfer of applications and data between clouds is crucial.

Implementing A Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Solution

Adopting hybrid and multi-cloud solutions can seem like an intimidating undertaking. However, by planning and using the right solutions, it is actually very attainable. Here are when building your strategy:

1. Understand your core business and technology requirements. Think about the values of your business regarding moving to the cloud. This will help you look for the mix of clouds that will make up your hybrid and multi-cloud solution.
2. Select the private and public clouds that fit your needs. Take the time to learn about cloud vendor products and services along with their cybersecurity policies.
3. Develop a management approach for security, governance, cost monitoring, and resource and performance management. It is essential to build and acquire management solutions that can be used to help manage the activities and projects throughout your hybrid and multi-cloud environment with minimal disruptions.
4. Select the management technology that works best with what has been defined above.

Adopting a hybrid and multi-cloud approach means integrating the old and the new to keep up with digital transformation and continue to build up business value. Making plans to overcome any challenges of system change can (and will) make all the difference.

Conclusion

Evolving technology has made enterprises increase their search for multiple cloud offerings that can help capitalize on flexibility and reduced costs. Businesses are also progressively heading toward digital transformation, making the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud services increase rapidly. A recent study found that “around 56% of respondents said they’ve already adopted multi-cloud, and 80% plan to do so in the next three years.“

By using private and public cloud facilities together, companies can gain much more profit and agility whenever they perform any operation. The hybrid and multi-cloud environment can give companies choices by allowing them to determine which aspects of their business they want in each environment. If you’d like to learn more about how your company can manage your IT infrastructure and data storage, contact the infrastructure experts at WEI today.

Next Steps: Reducing complexity is a necessary step when implementing hybrid and multi-cloud systems. You can simplify your approach with hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software that can put you in charge of what goes where. Learn more about maintaining your hybrid and multi-cloud system with HCI in our tech brief,

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Every year, enterprises make decisions regarding their technology goals, and this is largely based on where they are in their digital transformation journey. In order to facilitate a smooth transition, Nutanix offers for various enterprises. In this article we cover the six core industries where Nutanix hybrid and multi-cloud solutions can help business transformation take place.

1. Financial Services

With a rise in competition for banks and insurance companies, there is a greater need for financial service firms to invest in agile and adaptable technology solutions. They can then use the solutions to expand their organizations and create better banking experiences. Digital transformation with Nutanix offers the agility of the public cloud while maintaining control of critical resources. To reference our recent article on hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, Nutanix provides the tools to run your workloads from a single control plane on any cloud with no application re-architecting. It enables your cloud to be more agile, more scalable, and ultimately more efficient and cost-effective.

Many financial services companies realize that digital transformation with Nutanix can help create a set of cloud environments that satisfy user expectations while also maintaining the applications your business has depended on for years.

2. Federal Government

In order to meet U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines, many federal agencies have started datacenter modernization initiatives. One of the many benefits of utilizing Nutanix solutions is the decisive price advantage. This helps CIOs and IT leaders who need to comply with aggressive OMB regulations.

Many federal agencies depend on Nutanix for these reasons:

• Easier management
• Greater transparency
• Flexibility and availability
• Cost containment

To fulfill the challenges of managing larger amounts of data, Nutanix has the solutions needed to help federal agencies and other government organizations.

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3. State And Local Government

State and local governments are areas where cost-effective IT solutions are absolutely, 100% necessary. Because of strict budgets, government agencies need help building data centers and affordable infrastructure. This is where digital transformation with Nutanix comes in. According to the , “Organizations who are adopting hyper-converged infrastructure are benefitting from increased transparency of costs, greater cost control and predictability, enhanced IT agility, and many other measurable benefits.”

If you want to move your data to the cloud or modernize applications, Nutanix provides easy and intelligent solutions specifically built for state and local government needs.

4. Education

Almost every educational institution has made the transition to online learning due to COVID-19, this equates to nearly students across the globe. There is a growing need for versatility in IT infrastructure so there isn’t too much pressure on IT resources.

Educational institutions have recently discovered the power of hybrid and multi-cloud solutions. Applying Nutanix solutions gives schools the ability to improve academic outcomes while also driving new innovations and discoveries. People worldwide can more easily access internet-based classes and resources by digitally transforming. Interactive learning is also increased with better computer technology and AI-enabled methods of teaching online. Nutanix can unlock the cloud to unleash digital learning.

5. Manufacturing

Manufacturing companies focus on automation, advancement, and innovation in areas such as assembly lines and shop-floor equipment. This focus, however, can improve with better-driven data. Nutanix has the world’s most sophisticated hyper-converged technology infrastructure (HCI) that makes it easier to update new applications. The hybrid and multi-cloud solutions assist in data protection, storage, built-in automation, and multi-cloud management. All of this can maximize efficiency and eliminate manual administrative tasks.

6. Healthcare

Major hospitals are constantly looking for ways to use automation to better the lives of healthcare professionals and their patients. Digital transformation with Nutanix can help healthcare organizations with their data storage infrastructure and simplify operations with unlimited cloud resources.

New infrastructure has allowed more healthcare employees to work remotely when possible and accommodate medical delivery services. Overall, Nutanix hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities help with data insights and flexibility at a reasonable cost.

Conclusion

Developing hybrid and multi-cloud solutions can be a tremendous benefit for many industries, especially those that rely on the cloud for critical areas of their IT infrastructure. With digital transformation solutions from Nutanix, companies will receive top-notch capabilities across storage, networking, security, and application management. If you’re ready to keep up with digital transformation, contact WEI today to get started.

Next Steps: Recent years have shown how critical the need for greater elasticity really is. This has accelerated the transition to hybrid cloud architectures that utilize the appropriate mix of both private and public clouds. Today’s advanced HCI solutions are designed for this new era. Download our tech brief titled,

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We’ve unpacked the term “Digital Transformation” for some time now, and the urgency for meaningful digitalization only continues to increase from enterprise to enterprise. But as an IT leader, do you know which areas of transformation are worth investing over others? It can be a tough call to make if your IT personnel are already struggling to take on additional projects and workflows or if your budget isn’t as forgiving as it once was.

Digital transformation investments commonly center around improving areas such as customer experience, operational efficiencies, staff retention rates, and employee productivity. But none of these mentioned areas is the most popular – that would be data security. In our about digital transformation, data security management was easily the top objective worth investing in at 26%. This comes as no surprise given the heightened urgency around recent (and notable) ransomware events and the nation’s current cybersecurity status.

Solidify Agility With Data Security Management

Companies look forward to earning greater digital agility because it aids efficiency at the operational and customer levels. But greater agility also opens the door a little wider for threat actors, too. As enterprises are now comprised of vast IT estates with thousands of touchpoints, each one represents a potential vulnerability or attack avenue. That’s why your team cannot slight its data security management in the least bit.

According to , there were 1,862 data breaches reported in 2021, an increase of 68% over the previous record set the year before. The frequency of breaches also affects the cost of recovery for organizations. found that the cost of a single data breach in 2021 was $4.24 million, a 10% increase over the average cost of $3.86 million in 2019. This is especially difficult for companies that went remote over the last few years. Due to a lack of needed technology improvements and new security threats, remote organizations paid an average of $107 million higher than the organizations that stayed in the office. The increased rate of cyberattacks makes it evident that IT leaders cannot ignore data security.

Data Security, Protection, and Privacy: How They Relate

Data security is not the same as data privacy or data protection. However, each of the terms are incredibly important pieces to your enterprise’s cybersecurity puzzle. For instance, you may implement a multifactor authentication system to properly authenticate users before connecting to a data directory. Should a threat actor seize a privileged account with the required access to encrypt the directory, a backup system can be used to restore the compromised data.

Here, data security and data protection work together. It is worth noting that meaningful data security features three core elements of what is referred to as the CIA Triad security model. And no, we can assure you that “CIA” has nothing to do with a well-known intelligence agency.

• Confidentiality: Ensures that data is only accessed by authorized individuals.
• Integrity: Ensures that data is trustworthy, accurate, and authentic by retaining it in
• a pristine and untampered state.
• Availability: Ensures that data is available to those that need it to do their job.

Streamline Your Data Security Strategy

Effective data security management doesn’t mean throwing wasted dollars at another third-party cybersecurity service. In fact, many see the strategy of purchasing additional security tools upon the discovery of a new attack methodology to be non-productive and create unnecessary complexity that could potentially consume too much attention of internal staff. According to the , 81% of organizations that utilized 50+ security vendors had 10,000+ records impacted. Many data breaches can be prevented by applying an available patch created for the designated vulnerability. Surveys have shown that as much as 30% of all new security investments are underutilized, or sometimes not even used at all.

A sound data security strategy should include at least some of the following security tools, protocols, and policies:

• A next general firewall at the network perimeter is essential to be able to monitor and filter network traffic.
• The memberships of highly privileged groups should be monitored to be made aware of changes.
• Identity and access management (IAM) measures should be implemented in conjunction with role-based access controls (RBAC) to enforce authentication and authorization. Also ensure that only authorized users can access or transfer data.

Furthermore, data security strategies should be centered around a zero-trust security featuring these fundamentals:

• The network is always assumed to be hostile.
• Internal and external threats always exist on the network.
• Network locality is not sufficient for deciding trust in a network.
• All devices, users, and network flows are authenticated and authorized.
• Policies must be dynamic and calculated from as many sources of data as possible.

Speak with our seasoned data security specialists who can analyze both your business objectives and security risks to create a duty of care strategy that not only reduces your enterprise’s exposure to the risk of attack, but also the risk of business disruption, non-compliance and litigation. Data security and digital transformation go hand in hand – WEI can show you how.

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In 2018, our IT trends survey found slightly over half (53%) of companies had taken some type of action to support digital transformation (e.g., process, operational and/or technology changes). In 2021, we found 70% of companies had embarked on a digital transformation journey.

Given the events of 2020, the jump comes as no surprise. Most businesses across all industries quickly responded to a need to support a remote workforce and make in-person interactions safer. This often meant implementing new technologies on the fly and adapting far faster than ever before. Now that the dust has settled somewhat, businesses are grappling with new challenges and the need to improve processes and architectures that were hastily thrown together.

Cyberattacks and Hybrid Work Models Driving Initiatives

In response to growing cyberthreats and a shift toward long-term hybrid work models, companies are scrambling to update outdated security architectures and put more measures in place to secure data and systems.

In our latest IT Leaders Digital Transformation survey, we found that infrastructure demands was the top driver for investing more in digital transformation, followed by security/compliance concerns. Some of these initiatives will include adapting to zero-trust networks, strengthening backup/disaster recovery settings, and embracing cloud technology. To learn more, .

Source: IT Leaders Digital Transformation Update, 2021

Digital Transformation is a Mandate, Not a Choice

While the number of companies engaged in digital transformation has noticeably grown since our 2018 survey, nearly a third indicate having no digital-driven activities. Additionally, 13% admit they have no formal digital transformation plans. While we see laggards in some industries, particularly in B2B, those holdouts cannot hold out for long. Technology and business performance are now too tightly intertwined. To remain competitive and profitable in today’s digital world, companies can no longer think of digital transformation as a strategic “yes/no” decision.

Getting started can be daunting. You may focus on incremental changes that are more achievable, such as initiatives to gain internal efficiencies, improve the customer experience or to optimize your products and services. However, focusing on point problems does not achieve the bigger gains that come by embedding technology into every aspect of the business.

Among IT leaders already on their transformation journeys, our survey revealed they consider hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies most crucial to their digital technology strategy. Leaders were also asked how they will leverage these technologies and what challenges they expect. Details can be found in our

Companies Turn to IT 疯情AV Providers for Support

An issue that may hinder some organizations from greater technology adoption is a lack of skilled IT staff. Faced with a persistent shortage of IT talent, particularly in the areas of cybersecurity, automation and cloud computing, companies have found it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to acquire and retain highly skilled employees.

In response, many are supplementing their IT staff with full- and part-time contract employees. When asked how their IT initiatives over the next two years would be handled, leaders reported that nearly half (43%) of their IT workloads would be handled externally by a vendor or consultant. A majority (70%) also indicated that augmenting their staff with outside help was very important to their organizations.

While respondents sought to gain expertise in security, cloud and other emerging technologies by using an IT solutions provider, they also indicated a need for help with key challenges. Top on the list was IT cost management, up 11 points from 2018.

Next Steps: Access to skilled IT staff, assistance with digital strategies and technology assessments, and implementation support are just a few of the ways that providers like WEI help support IT cost management initiatives. Is IT cost management an area you need help with? Contact us today to start a discussion.

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Enterprises are turning to a hybrid multi-cloud environment as a solution to the modern technology challenges they are faced with. However, if not expected, this shift can be met with challenges that cause dissatisfaction and contradict the value that can be gained from it.

Implementing modern enterprise technology such as a hybrid multi-cloud solution doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. It is a process you can roll out in stages, and by tackling the important uses first, getting started is easier to manage. Taking it one step at a time allows you to quickly establish a hybrid multi-cloud presence, build on your knowledge as you go, and keep costs in check. Keep reading to discover the three uses for hybrid multi-cloud in order of deployment.

Use One: Ensuring Business Continuity

The first, and possibly the most important, use for a hybrid multi-cloud solution is ensuring your enterprise’s continuity of datacenter applications with a disaster recovery (DR)-to-cloud solution. A disaster recovery-to-cloud solution is a modern enterprise technology that satisfies distancing requirements, helps achieve SLAs, and simplifies your operations. There is no need for a secondary, geographically separated datacenter. This reduces your DR costs and complexity without sacrificing your enterprise’s security.

The predictable, automated service restoration with a hybrid multi-cloud approach to DR minimizes downtime and reduces the overall impact a disaster can have on your enterprise. The ability to host DR operations on a public cloud, or multiple public clouds, allows you to avoid extended downtime due to localized disasters.

Use Two: On-Demand Elasticity

The next use for the hybrid multi-cloud is its ability to provide on-demand elasticity. During times of high demand for your enterprise’s resources, I’m sure you, like most IT leaders, would like to use the cloud as an extension of your datacenter to support that fluctuation. But getting there isn’t always easy as there are challenges that need to be addressed first. They include:

• The need for multiple infrastructure management tools
• Time-consuming, complex, networking systems and management
• Inability to move applications as-is to the cloud

A consolidated software platform, such as what , solves these challenges for private and public clouds, making the modern enterprise technology with a hybrid multi-cloud environment simple to deploy, use, and adapt. This allows you to size your datacenter for normal workloads and draws on the cloud during peak periods of use, providing you with the flexibility to scale up and scale down on your terms.

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Use Three: Lift And Shift

Building on the previous use, the ability to “lift and shift” falls right into place with a hybrid multi-cloud approach. There are a variety of reasons you may want to lift applications from your datacenters and shift them to the public cloud. The need to free up resources and ensure your enterprise’s continuity of datacenter applications are just two reasons. If you have teams in different geographic regions, the cloud is the best way for them to access the information they need, which is done through lifting applications from the datacenter and shifting them to the cloud.

Nutanix And The Hybrid Multi-Cloud

Thanks to Nutanix‘s hybrid multi-cloud solutions, application migration is no longer a complicated and risky task. Migration to a public cloud typically requires specialized knowledge, skillsets, and unique tools for each cloud provider. Many applications must be re-platformed or re-architected to run efficiently on a public cloud, which is a time-consuming and costly process.

Because Nutanix provides the tools to run your workloads from a single control plane on any cloud with no application re-architecting, it enables your cloud to be more agile, more scalable, and ultimately more efficient and cost-effective. Nutanix reduces the cost of deploying and operating a hybrid multi-cloud environment while increasing the productivity of your team.

Next Steps: for a free 15-minute assessment of your current hybrid strategy and design. WEI’s cloud experts can provide insightful analysis and expert perspectives on your current solutions.

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