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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

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More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024).

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

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Enterprises today require the robust networks and infrastructure required to effectively manage and protect an ever-increasing volume of data. Industry-leading SLAs also guarantee that applications and the data within and used by them – the very lifeblood of the enterprise – is always accessible and protected.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. On-prem infrastructure will grow cold — with the exception of storage, Nardecchia says. Some storage will likely stay on-prem while more is pushed into the public cloud, he says.

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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO

Hard costs include: Setting up the infrastructure (servers, connectivity, storage, gateways, sensors/input devices, and hardware) and integrating the edge deployment with it. The hardware required alone ranges from very basic to enterprise-class rack-based systems that consist of standalone, converged, or hyperconverged infrastructure.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO

It’s simple fact that threats are evolving and changing, requiring enterprises to pivot quickly in how they protect their organizations and respond to threats. She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology. But are more security tools always the answer?

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The transformation of shared services

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As explained in IDC’s recent Growth and Transformation of Global Business Services (September 2024), while shared services typically pertain to a single function that can serve multiple business units, GBS can serve every unit or person in an enterprise and can execute the processes for any function anywhere in the world centrally and at scale.

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Sustainability: Real progress but also thorny challenges ahead

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In the European Union, for example, three-quarters of organizations are in the early stages of doing so (IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, April 2023). She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology.