“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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The first wave of virtualization has delivered dramatic benefits to organizations through consolidation, improved utilization, reduced total cost of ownership, efficient energy consumption and more effective use of physical space.
But organizations have only scratched the surface of virtualization’s potential....
Published: Oct 08, 2013
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
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
Customers now communicate across multiple emerging channels and devices. This isn’t a vision of the future – it’s happening right now.
The research shows that customers have and are in love with the technology. What’s more, their preferences are becoming well established, so if you are...
Published: Jun 24, 2014
This whitepaper explains that USB drives have been used to transport viruses and malware, both on purpose and accidentally.
The paper explains that no manually handling of files, such as with USB drives, is unnecessary when you set up a secure network architecture using five zones of protection. You can transfer files...
Published: Mar 27, 2014
The Need for Unified Performance Management Across all applications, networks, infrastructure & end users.
Published: Oct 26, 2016
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
The way in which applications are consumed has undergone rapid and significant change in recent years—both in the growing list of user device types to support, each with its own unique requirements, and in how those devices are connected, with variations in network characteristics between fixed, mobile, and remote...
Published: Aug 13, 2013
The data center is the heart of the network, delivering business agility and promoting IT transformation. As your business evolves and you look toward new technologies and applications to grow the business, the data center switching architecture that underpins the delivery of enterprise-wide applications and services must...
Published: Aug 02, 2013
The information technology industry is undergoing one of the most significant periods of transformation in the last 20 years. This period of change is directed by a series of trends such as the explosive growth of powerful smartphones, the consumerization of technology purchasing, and the move toward cloud-based software...
Published: Aug 02, 2013
This eBook on hybrid enterprise and performance management talks about the three key challenges of performance management in today's hybrid enterprise: 1) lack of visibility 2) poor performance 3) limited control.
It also suggests ways to regain control of the hybrid enterprise.
Published: Oct 26, 2016