GREG SORBER

Despite the exponential growth in mobile shopping, conversion rates continue to fall as customers inreasingly abandon their shopping carts during the checkout process.

Data security has historically been a technical concern handled by technologists. But with nearly $100 billion spent on security solutions annually and high-profile security events continuing to cause significant financial, customer, and reputation losses, the issue has moved out of the data center and into the executive suite.

In many ways, the cloud has been a disruptive force for IT leaders and their teams, opening the door for business groups and individuals to take technology matters into their own hands. But forward-thinking IT departments are using the cloud as a transformative engine, helping them transition from tactical systems administrators to strategic service brokers.

Massive value can be attained when businesses use data to understand and optimize their operations, and to outsmart and outperform their competition. But despite decades of prodigious effort and spending, this value has not been realized.

Analyze, graph, and present your data. Effortlessly.

In an era of precarious and dynamic business risk, advanced data protection is no longer a choice for mid-market organizations. The laws are unbending, the threats are unrelenting, and the consequences can be catastrophic if they are not confronted with a rock solid security program.

Businesses can no longer take an iterative approach to innovation and differentiation. It must be a continuous effort, with the ability to quickly change course when market, competitive, or customer pressures dictate.

Despite their advantages, VMs are slow to spin up, use a lot of storage space, and are difficult to move. Representing the next evolution of virtualization, containers help organizations overcome these challenges.