“While the CLI remains the dominant mechanism for more than 85% of system engineers to implement network changes, several alternatives are gaining popularity, including APIs, fabrics, and SD-WAN. By 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will use the CLI as their primary interface, down from 85% at YE16.”...
Published: Jul 19, 2017
Today, less than 5% of network operations teams are sufficiently skilled to realize the value possible from network analytics and automation solutions. This will improve over the next three years, but not much—by 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will be able to fully realize the benefits of these tools....
Published: Jul 19, 2017
Look at the reality that is digital disruption and why it's happening, alongside who the digital disruptors are and why they're achieving success.
“Since 2000, 52% of combines in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired, ceased to exist or dropped out.” - Ray Wang, Principal...
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Validating application and service delivery is key to the ongoing success of most organizations. The right network performance management and diagnostics (NPMD) solution can help enterprises avoid the negative financial and customer service implications of anomalous events, while maintaining optimal performance of IT resources....
Published: Aug 23, 2017
The Tenth Annual State of the Network Global Study focuses a lens on the network team's role in security investigations. Results indicate that 88 percent of network teams are now spending time on security issues. In fact, out of 1,035 respondents, nearly 3 out of 4 spend up to 10 hours per week working exclusively...
Published: Aug 23, 2017
SDN is the talk of the networking world. But as popular as it’s been lately, it’s still shrouded in misconception. To demystify the topic we encourage you to sign up to hear more from Juniper about this emerging trend, and get our information-packed white paper titled "Decoding SDN".
Published: Jun 03, 2013
KelCor has been compensated by Sonus Networks to prepare this position document, but the thoughts and opinions are those of the author alone, and KelCor has maintained full editorial control throughout.
Sonus specifically sought KelCor’s unbiased views on key challenges organizations face when using video and...
Published: Apr 18, 2014
Collaboration is increasingly becoming recognized as a critical investment for organizations looking for new sources of productivity and innovation. Cost cutting and efficiency measures can achieve only so much; the next breakthrough levels of business performance will come from the ability to tap into the collective knowledge...
Published: Jul 15, 2013
Understanding how to serve customers in the modern era means understanding what customers want.
Microsoft surveyed the roughly 4,000 consumers from the US, UK, Japan, and Brazil to get the details that matter to companies offering service from across multiple channels.
The free report explores 22 questions including:...
Published: Apr 03, 2016
As organizations become more hybrid in the era of cloud computing, ensuring application performance is more challenging than ever. The transition to a hybrid environment has created challenges in optimizing application performance.
This whitepaper talks about:
Location-independent computing...
Published: Feb 10, 2016
Many companies are moving away from hardware-centric networking and adopting a new approach: network virtualization. As adoption grows, new stories are emerging about the enhanced security, agility, and application continuity that are possible with this software-centric model.
Download now to find out what networking...
Published: Apr 12, 2017
Mobile and IoT technologies create the potential for tremendous business opportunities, but also present challenges.
For the wired and wireless network, it means delivering more than just connectivity – the network is expected to provide actionable insights about the use of mobile and IoT to justify future investments,...
Published: Sep 15, 2016
There are three key drivers to the success of your NGFW solution deployment: Integration with security workflow, total cost of ownership and security effectiveness.
How do you know which solution will work best for your distributed enterprise? NSS Labs, the world’s leading security insight company, shares its...
Published: Apr 04, 2017
IT managers have a nearly impossible job. They must understand, manage, and secure the network all the time against all problems. Anything less than a 100 percent working network is a failure. There is a very familiar saying: Don’t miss the forest for the trees. Meaning, don’t let the details prevent...
Published: Jun 17, 2016