The concerns of IT leaders within the U.S. was analyzed in a survey by Rocket Software. The survey looks at the biggest challenges facing IT leaders of large organizations and their approach to modernizing their IT department.
The report revealed that IT leaders are losing sleep over improving overall IT performance (60%), data security (50%), process risk and compliance (46%) and the need to improve agility (41%). To overcome these challenges, IT organizations are turning to hybrid solutions to leverage the benefits of the cloud and the mainframe. Ninety-three percent of respondents strongly agree with the sentence, “I believe my organization needs to embrace a hybrid infrastructure model that spans from mainframe to cloud.”