Despite the rise in cyber-attacks and the shifting demands and constraints placed on them, 95 percent of IT decision-makers say they are satisfied with their IT security provisions, with 25% indicating they are “very satisfied.” 86 percent also say that their organization’s IT security teams have “all the capabilities necessary” to deal with today’s difficulties.

IT agility in the age of hybrid-working :The pandemic has triggered a seismic shift in the ways in which businesses operate, which in turn has led to a greater level of complexity around IT systems. Applications and workloads are increasingly distributed across the data centre and the cloud, while workers are split between home offices, campuses and branches.

The cloud is not a fixed location, but an entity that can grow and be worked on by multiple teams. Its core, and everything that governs it, needs to stay the same. Businesses should be aspiring to a modern cloud infrastructure that is consistent everywhere, that evolves and extends the infrastructure to thousands of other cloud infrastructure partner.

For the July 2021 Special Feature on ‘Bridging The Gap Between Technology And Business, Vincent Berk, CTO and Chief Security Architect of Riverbed, sits down with Rabab Zehra of TECHx Media to discuss Riverbed’s major initiatives in the current digital transformation wave, unified visibility solution, and remote working paradigm.

The edge—which is different for each industry and business function—enables new services and better performance by placing applications as close as possible to the sources and users of data,” said Mohammed Abukhater.