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Stratecast research on the demand for connectivity reflects consumers’ growing appetite, as well as willingness to spend. For network operators, consumers’ deepening dependency on connectivity spells business opportunity. The symbiotic relationship among connectivity, devices, and applications may portend a silver lining for network operators. ...

For global enterprises seeking to standardize on a provider with a hybrid enablement platform that can manage a very wide array of resources, Indian communications provider Tata Communications may be just what the company needs to achieve its hybrid goals. The company’s hybrid enablement platform spans many popular hypervisors and operating syste...

In this paper, we present insights from a recent SD-WAN end-user survey on businesses’ mindset regarding three WAN functions while evaluating SD-WAN solutions. The analysis specifically focuses on businesses’ router, firewall and WAN optimization strategies that accompany SD-WAN deployments.

For organizations, large and small, the use of third-party vendors in a variety of functions is a recurring part of their operations. And like malicious insiders, cyber criminals, hactivists, and nation-states, the cyber risks associated with third-party vendors should receive similar attention across all stages of cyber risk management: identifica...

31 Aug 2018  |  North America  |  Customer Research

North America Building Technology Buying Processes and Bid Spec Process Evaluation, 2017

Adopting a Traditional Approach Rather than a Collaborative Approach to Project Management is the Main Reason for Sub-par Project Efficiency

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This research service offers in-depth understanding of the practices, challenges, process influencers, and opportunities pertaining to intelligent building (IB) design and implementation. The concept of IBDI processes was examined from the perspectives of building owners, occupants, vendors, service providers, and industry associations. It was foun...

With our recently conducted 2018 Cloud User Survey, some patterns are beginning to emerge. Some workloads initially deployed in the public cloud are now being moved back into a premises data center, in a trend known as “repatriation.” And for the first time, we are seeing a decline in the number of businesses that use cloud Infrastructure as a ...

The Stratecast Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM) analyst team has completed its annual assessment of both the global communications service provider (CSP) monetization market and the global CSP financial assurance market. The monetization market includes the key business management functions of: billing mediation, poli...

Frost & Sullivan’s 2016 survey provided insights into the SD-WAN market as it was navigating through the early adopter stage. In the last two years, enterprise decision makers have equipped themselves with a much better understanding of the benefits that SD-WAN brings to enterprise WANs. SD-WAN vendors and managed SD-WAN providers alike report wi...

Over the past two years, the always-on nature of today’s business markets, and the lack of tolerance for application downtime, has made cloud even more important for businesses seeking to increase their business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. As the enterprise become less able to accept the negative impacts on productivity that do...