Category: Industry spotlights

All industries are in the grip of digital transformation today. The way that business is conducted is shifting from monolithic, on-premise IT systems to a platform-based model in which companies take part in ecosystems to share data and intelligence, and assemble solutions from third-party components. The automotive industry is seeing this new paradigm extend to its core product: the future of the car itself is that of an open platform that will share data with a wide range of partners across an automotive ecosystem.

This vision requires high levels of connectivity from the car – both with objects in the immediate environment (V2X, or vehicle-to-X communication) and, in the future, with partners in the ecosystem via 5G access to cloud-based platforms. These platforms and the ecosystems that run on them will clearly require robust, secure, and performant infrastructure. And these requirements will only increase over time as cars become ever-more dependent on access to the platforms.

This IDC Mini Market Spotlight examines the emergence of interconnection platforms that provide the infrastructure that will underpin these emerging ecosystems within the automotive industry, and so enable the vision to become reality.

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It has been said many times that business is in the grip of a digital transformation. The technological foundation on which business is conducted today is clearly shifting, from monolithic IT systems installed on-premise to the agile assembling of cloud-based technology and microservices, often within open ecosystems. And this transformation is happening fast: IDC forecasts that, by 2020, 50% of Global 2000 enterprises will derive the majority of their business from digitally enhanced products, services, and experiences.

To achieve this level of ubiquity, and to help companies overcome some of the challenges that they experience along the way, digital transformation needs to be underpinned by solid, secure infrastructure. Connecting the components of a modern latency-sensitive or safety-critical application using only the public Internet is not sufficient. This IDC Mini Market Spotlight examines the emergence of interconnection platforms dedicated to providing this type of cloud-level connectivity within the finance industry, to complement the Internet, and so enable users and suppliers to transact digital business in a secure, performant environment.

Security threats cominate the finance industry’s challenges

The benefits for the financial industry from migrating to the digital world have been immense over the last 10 years. However, as digital business models have matured, the limitations of the public Internet have become apparent. One major drawback has been the increased sophistication of cybersecurity threats, which have rocketed to the top of the agenda to the extent that fraud, cybersecurity, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are rated the number 1 challenge to the industry.

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