Unlock the insights that IDC’s Jordan Speer and her colleagues discovered for prominent themes and technologies that retailers are focusing on after attending NRF 2022.

Delivering innovative digital products and services can be difficult for enterprises that have traditionally bought, but have not developed their own software.

Many organizations are now getting pre-pandemic cloud initiatives back on track, albeit with some very different requirements of vendors, technologies, and architectures.

Organizations that focus on industry ecosystems will begin to derive a large percentage of their revenue from these new business models.

Connectivity resiliency isn’t a one-time transformation. It requires the continuous alignment of people, processes, and technology around a common goal of guaranteed uptime. It also requires investment and integration of complementary connectivity technologies that empower users and customers to remain connected to key applications and services regardless of location or issue.

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According to Forbes, while executives estimate that 30% of their cloud spending is wasted, at the same time enterprises intend to spend even more on cloud services. Clearly wasteful cloud spending is a recognized yet growing problem that for many continues to go unresolved. As this blog will show, where IT leaders fall short on is not identifying areas of spending that can be improved but implementing a plan of action for cost savings and maintaining it. 

The changing nature of digital infrastructure is having significant impact on the ways that enterprises evaluate and do business with major infrastructure hardware and software vendors, as well as public cloud service providers and channel partners.

Companies can no longer rely on “human computers” for their R&D initiatives. Fierce competition, the constant quest to maintain or further an organization’s differentiation, and the need to make decisions steeped in digital information mean that almost every company – regardless of industry – must invest in high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and analytics infrastructure.