Companies squander billions on overprovisioned and unused resources. A cloud management platform can help.

Almost all U.S. companies now use cloud services or applications. Shockingly, almost all of them are also wasting money in the cloud.

Several recent studies reveal that companies worldwide are squandering billions of dollars each year due to overprovisioned and underutilized resources.

Skittish ransomware gangs looking for easier paydays help drive the recent uptick in illegal cryptocurrency mining.

Despite a precipitous drop in cryptocurrency values over the past several months, cryptojacking remains a growth industry for malicious actors.

A new study reveals that critical shortcomings in standard data protection strategies are putting organizations at increased risk of downtime and data loss. IDC researchers report that an alarming 93 percent of organizations across North America and Western Europe suffered a data-related business disruption during the past 12 months with nearly 60 percent experiencing unrecoverable data loss.

It’s been a long time since mobile phones were just phones. With more processing power than some desktops and laptops, today’s smartphones have become the computing platform of choice for many users. According to one survey, more than 90 percent of corporate employees use a smartphone for work every day.

In times of economic uncertainty, business decisions get tougher and spending is scrutinized. But many organizations agree that it makes good sense to invest in customer experience (CX) technologies.

According to Metrigy’s Customer Experience Transformation 2022-23 report, more than half of companies plan to increase their CX spending by 2023, with an average increase of 17.3 percent.

Network reliability has never been more important. Organizations across all industry sectors are increasingly dependent on their networks to extend connectivity to highly distributed remote workers, cloud services, edge devices and IoT infrastructure. Meeting those demands often requires upgrading legacy hardware-centric networks to more cloud- and software-driven environments to accommodate growing volumes of users, devices and traffic.

According to a recent Techaisle survey, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) adoption is expected to grow 145 percent among small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). While just 10 percent of SMBs are currently using SD-WAN solutions, 25 percent are planning SD-WAN deployments.

Managed services providers help organizations adopt advanced technologies without misgivings.

Global IT spending will exceed $4 trillion this year as organizations continue investing in sophisticated solutions to help them remain competitive in a rapidly evolving technology and business environment.

Desktop-as-a-Service solutions help organizations cut costs and improve productivity by offloading much of their desktop management burden.

In the traditional office computing environment, everyone in the company has a desktop or laptop computer loaded with applications and data and managed by the internal IT staff.

The accelerated adoption of technologies such as cloud computing, automation and artificial intelligence creates enormous operational benefits for most organizations but also contributes to increased network complexity. More than half of IT professionals say they are no longer confident in their organization’s ability to effectively manage this complexity, according to a new SolarWinds study.