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COVID-19 survey update: Cloud reliance grows

This piece is an update to our blog post in late March that looked at how IT organizations are being impacted by COVID-19, including insights from TBR’s survey of enterprise IT leaders. The blog discussed how we are experiencing the second wave of impacts from the outbreak, in which widespread business disruption is affecting demand […]

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Security measures taken to combat impacts of COVID-19 on businesses will have long-term implications

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an array of cyberattacks that threaten the health of our virtual systems, including but not exclusive to those in healthcare, banking and government agencies. Cyber criminals are capitalizing on widespread weaknesses with attack vectors in the form of spam, phishing scams, ransomware and malicious URLs. As the number of infected […]

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COVID-19 preparedness: Looking back to achieve perfect vision for tomorrow

Finger-pointing from the vantage of hindsight Last year, nearly 18 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, three former Department of Homeland Security secretaries urged the U.S. government to place cybersecurity at the top of the national threat list. The call to action was issued prior to any knowledge of a looming pandemic, and adherence to […]

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COVID-19’s early financial impacts: Cloud and SI vendors

Insights from TBR’s Cloud and IT Services teams Join Allan Krans, Patrick Heffernan, Kevin Collupy and Boz Hristov as they discuss how the COVID-19 outbreak has impacted 1Q20 earnings in the cloud, IT services and consulting markets. While the world has been significantly disrupted by COVID-19, the impact on technology vendor revenue and cost structures […]

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COVID-19: Life between trapezes

Economic activity currently appears more in cessation than recession. It is as if the world is suspended, untethered between two trapezes. As activity resumes, we know inquisitive humans will turn to easy-to-assemble technology to meet the emerging business demands and consumer pain points materializing daily. We will see a flurry of IoT-enabled endpoint applications that […]

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Indian IT sector may take a heavy hit as Covid batters US and Europe

“Boz Hristov, Professional Services Senior Analyst, Technology Business Research, Inc, said IT vendors — especially those exposed to the most volatile sectors such as industrials/manufacturing, retail and travel — will see a challenging period. The financial services sector will face headwinds, especially banking and capital markets, and less so insurance. This will further pressure Indian […]

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Efforts underway to bolster cash flow in face of COVID-19 pandemic

“‘The contractors with more ‘progressive’ partnership/alliance strategies will be able to ‘unite the clans’ in their subcontractor network and quell any trepidation by sharing as much of the risk and the risk-management as possible,’ Technology Business Research Senior Analyst John Caucis told me. Caucis, who watches public sector IT for the market intelligence firm, pointed […]

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COVID-19 outbreak allows SAP and SIs to work on their relationships

COVID-19 delays the already slow process of taking S/4HANA customers live For decades, service partnerships have been of utmost importance to SAP (NYSE: SAP). Migrating customers onto S/4HANA is a key part of SAP’s growth strategy, and none of those deployments happen without the involvement of partners. At the end of 2019 SAP reported a […]