CIO OPINION
Technologists are acutely aware that they need to embrace new solutions to optimise IT performance and deliver the faultless digital experiences which are now so vital .
Joe Byrne , Executive CTO , AppDynamics
UAE businesses must overcome complexity to avoid becoming the next brand to suffer a high profile outage
On the back of the October Facebook outage , AppDynamics conducted a global pulse survey of 1,000 IT decision makers across 11 countries , including the UAE to explore the impact that these recent events have had within IT departments . Based on the findings of the survey , Joe Byrne , Executive CTO , AppDynamics , explains here key takeaways and provides recommendations for organisations to ensure they don ’ t suffer the same fate as Facebook .
There ’ s nothing like a high-profile IT outage to focus the minds of technologists . On the back of the recent problems at Facebook , AppDynamics conducted a global pulse survey of 1,000 IT decision makers across 11 countries , including the UAE to explore the impact that these recent events have had within IT departments . technologists claimed that they are coming under increasing pressure from their organisation ’ s leadership to prevent a major performance issue or outage .
Within boardrooms and IT departments around the region , the question doing the rounds right now is : “ Could this happen to us ?”
As you would expect , 90 % of respondents from the UAE reported that they are now concerned about the potential for a major outage in their business and the resulting disruption to their applications and digital services . Additionally , a remarkable 88 % of UAE
Performance risks have escalated on the back of rapid Digital Transformation . While IT outages have always been a major risk for digital businesses , it ’ s fair to say that the stakes have been raised considerably over the last 18 months .
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