ESG Brief The Importance of a Common Distributed Data Services Layer

Information Technology And Services

Introduction

Modern business requires organizations to deliver a positive digital experience for both customers and employees. To do this, many organizations are embarking on digital transformation initiatives. Only 13% of respondents to ESG research describe their digital transformation initiatives as mature, while another 82% indicate that they have started or are planning their digital transformations.1 To remain more competitive, organizations are also transforming their IT environments and distributing more compute across their extended infrastructures. This will provide numerous benefits to those organizations looking to take advantage of data generated from IoT sensors and mobile devices, but it also creates a much larger attack surface and network environment that needs to be protected and secured.