“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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Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) is a fast-growing market that is currently disrupting existing unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) revenue streams as businesses across all segments and sizes are looking to adopt and implement collaboration solutions that deliver more efficiency, flexibility,...
Published: Jul 01, 2015
One can justifiably say that virtualization is a mature technology. It has formed the basis for Cloud computing, and it epitomizes the continuous service delivery and consumption model that beckons in the era of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS).
Unfortunately for some IT administrators, virtualization might not be a...
Published: Sep 01, 2015
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.
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Published: Apr 12, 2017
The telco cloud is a bit darker in late 2016 than most had hoped.
When software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) became an item and created a virtualization dream team for the telecom operator community, the future looked bright.Together, these two critical and market-changing developments...
Published: Feb 28, 2017
IT and business leaders are starting to realize that organizations don’t have to build and operate everything internally, so they are turning to a new way of delivering technology — Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) — for a variety of business applications. These days...
Published: Nov 22, 2016
You want to keep network security high and costs low.
The right network management system does that by preventing human error, the cause of most security failures, and reducing operational expenses.
Learn how you can decrease network complexity and help your IT staff do their jobs better and faster.
Published: Apr 04, 2017
Asset owners and operators face two primary issues in exploration and production: asset productivity and operating efficiency.
Operators typically do not have visibility to sense the current state of the oil field and respond with actions to reduce well downtime or to increase the oil flow. Traditionally, these sense-and-respond...
Published: Apr 01, 2013
Learn how Metro Bank ramps up employee productivity and collaboration with secure access to Office 365 apps.
Published: Apr 02, 2015
Success is now predicated on your ability to rapidly develop and deliver new applications to market, and accelerate IT service delivery, adding more value to your business more quickly.
Discover how enabling network virtualization can help you overcome complexity and automate error-prone manual processes.
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Published: Nov 04, 2016
Data center networks rely on Ethernet. Over the decades, Ethernet has evolved as new types of application architectures emerged. Today, data center networks carry traffic for a diverse set of applications including client/server, Web services, unified communications, virtual machines, and storage—each with different...
Published: Sep 26, 2013
This research report was commissioned to better understand the risk effect that mobile users - #GenMobile - are having on enterprise security, to determine where risk is highest, and to explain how to minimize #GenMobile security risk. Are you prepared?
Published: May 27, 2015