Peter Steube, managing director of Enterprise Technology Research (ETR), will join us each month to discuss enterprise-IT buying trends among big-company CIOs and IT decision-makers around the world. ETR (www.etr.plus) has developed an extensive database of IT buying tendencies over the past 10 years, and tracks whether those buyers are likely to buy more, hold steady, or buy less from specific IT vendors. In this episode, Peter and I discuss how cybersecurity is increasingly top of mind for enterprises globally.

Episode 3:

It’s very important to stay protected from cybersecurity threats when you’re moving from a work at home environment or a remote infrastructure environment. Many companies are increasing their spend on Azure, AWS, and Google – which are the three primary public cloud providers.

Citing other cybersecurity vendors, like SailPoint, Okta, and CyberArk, he also includes a few companies called CloudFlare, Fastly, and Zscaler.

Finally, Peter talks about the three uncertainties in life, death, taxes – and fourth, good spending data on Microsoft. He thinks that Microsoft Azure is going to continue to win over AWS and Google.

Also in this episode:

· Company CEOs are holding their spend steady

· Salesforce strengthened its overall spending intentions

· Digital transformation initiatives have become a part of life

· Zoom vs. Microsoft Teams vs. Slack

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