Gartner® Top 3 Technology Priorities in Midsize Enterprises Report

The Gartner Top 3 Technology Priorities in Midsize Enterprises Report will help MSE technology leaders identify the right security and IT strategies to prioritize to effectively support their organizations.

Some key findings for MSE leaders to consider are:

• The accelerated rate of change in the realm of security and the associated infrastructure, applications and cloud ecosystems complicates the selection and adoption of controls and tools.
• The ability to interpret and act on high-quality data and data-driven insights is often done independently of application modernization and integration efforts.
• Designing infrastructure by myopically focusing individual components, as opposed to hybrid infrastructure services as whole, leads to unwarranted complexity, operational inefficiencies and negative impact on workload placement and resiliency.

This report also shares recommendations for technology leaders:

• Maximize impact of security investment dollars by focusing on data breach and incident response technologies.
• Fill 24/7 security operations gaps by partnering with managed security information and event management (SIEM) and managed detection and response (MDR) providers.
• Exploit and monetize any available data (internal or external) with AI and machine learning to build predictive models that more accurately and actively align products with customers.
• Enable effective workload placement by implementing a hybrid infrastructure for heterogeneous workloads to securely traverse on-premises, edge and cloud-native environments.

1. Gartner, The Top 3 Technology Priorities in Midsize Enterprises Report, By Mike Cisek, Albert Gauthier, Paul Furtado, 29 August 2022
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