It’s current data center footprint and continued investment in infrastructure ensure that Chicago won’t be the “Second City” for long.

After jumping out early in 2020 as a voice of caution for corporations unprepared for the shift to WFH under COVID-19, IAITAM is now looking ahead to what it expects in the new year of 2021.

While the appetite for both personal and commercial data has been steadily growing for years, the coronavirus has fueled the rise of remote working and socializing platforms, substantially accelerating demand growth.

Data centers garnered a lot of attention in 2020 as many companies shifted to an entirely remote workforce and stay-home orders increased user demand. Let’s take a look at the top 20 articles of the year to see which topics drew the attention of our readers.

The departing year saw an increase in criminal activity online despite the fact that share of IT budgets dedicated to cybersecurity grew by up to 29%.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, "Managed and Professional Security Services Market in the Americas, Forecast to 2024," finds that the volume, sophistication, and diversity of cyberthreats are unrelenting problems for companies’ internal information security teams.

A significant portion of respondents needed weeks or months to detect data theft by employees (26%), improper employee data sharing (18%), and admin mistakes (12%).

In this episode of MCTV, you’ll hear from the 2020 Most Critical Player award winner as well as the two honorable mentions.

According to Gartner, spending on cloud security is predicted to be the fastest riser of all cybersecurity markets, with an expected increase of 33%, driving the market to an expected $585 million this year.

Vyve Broadband deployed The Connected World platform by Connected2Fiber to automate the identification of Vyve’s total addressable market of serviceable buildings across the company’s unique rural footprint and communicate the information to its network partners.