What’s up with IBM? On the one hand, IBM is betting the company on the cloud, yet on the other, they are doubling down on the mainframe – sinking over a billion dollars into their new IBM z13 model in their z Systems mainframe line. Furthermore, the explosion of mobile traffic is throwing a wrench into the works as digital transformation becomes the driving factor in enterprise technology purchasing decisions. Do these apparently competing forces spell trouble for Big Blue? On the contrary – there’s method to IBM’s madness. The z13 mainframe is in fact one of the most powerful digital transaction platforms available – and in many ways also supports enterprise cloud efforts. “It’s a great time – all companies are faced with digital transformation,” explains Ross Mauri, General Manager of z Systems for IBM. “The mainframe plays an essential role to current clients and hopefully some new clients as well.” An ancestor of the IBM z13 mainframe In fact, in virtually all industries, “mainframe heavy organizations supported more income per dollar of infrastructure expense than peers that were commodity server heavy,”according to industry expert Dr. Howard Rubin, Founder and CEO, Rubin Worldwide. The most pressing digital challenge on the mainframe, however, is the ability to support the influx of new mobile transactions. According to Rubin, there was less than one mobile transaction per day per mobile user, while in 2014, “that number has grown to at least 37 transactions per day per mobile user.” This explosion in mobile traffic has led to “a ‘starburst effect’ with transactions,” Mauri says, “starting in financial services, because of online banking...
54% of IT decision makers globally reported keeping sensitive information in the cloud. Cloud environments (46%) outpace databases (37%) and file servers (29%) as the location perceived as being the greatest risk by enterprise organizations. 80% of enterprises globally are making use of cloud environments according to the latest Ovum study. These and other insights are from the 2015 Vormetric Insider Threat Report (free, opt in) published today. This report provides an insightful analysis into how IT decision makers are navigating the potential benefits of cloud computing and big data versus the perceived and actual threats. Completed by Harris Poll with analysis by Ovum, the study is based on a survey of more than 800 senior business managers and IT professionals in major global markets. Please see page 23 of the study for a description of the methodology. While the study has a series of cloud security vendors sponsoring it, several of the findings are useful across a broader context of cloud security strategies globally today. Key take-aways from the report include the following: The actual risk of databases being compromised (47%) is significantly greater the perceived risk (38%). The perception of cloud risk (40%) is above the actual risk (36%). The following graphic completed by Ovum profiles the differences between actual and perceived risk. Database/File Encryption, Data Access Monitoring, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Privileged User Access Management and Cloud Security Gateways are the five most common security protection levels enterprise are using globally today. Big data (31%) is seen as slightly more at risk compared to file servers (29%) by IT decision makers (ITDMs). Risks associated with big...
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