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Enterprises today are adopting a multi-cloud environment, either as a conscious decision or as a default. However, most of them either don’t have the knowledge or the technology tools to implement an effective multi-cloud strategy; or they have an inadequate environment, comprising multiple siloed clouds, which was not consciously planned and art...

Historically, the focus of network access control (NAC) has been Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA). At its core, NAC enables mobility and dynamic security. However, the enterprise network no longer sits within four secure walls. It extends to wherever employees and data travel. Mobility, digitization, and the IoT are changing the ...

Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) continues to attract the attention of enterprises eager to leverage the business benefits offered by the technology; for example, faster deployment of branch sites, cost savings from using private and public networks, optimized cloud connectivity, and application-aware routing. In this report, we provide...

For resource-constrained IT organizations, a key benefit of the cloud is offloading IT maintenance responsibilities. But the public cloud addresses only part of a business’s IT burden. While storage and applications can be whisked off to the cloud provider’s data center, many IT functions and related infrastructure—such as networking, voice, ...

Residential voice customers continue to migrate away from traditional landline services to less-expensive options offered by wireless and cable providers. The following charts detail current subscriber counts, revenue and market share, as well as our predictions for the future.

This weeks SPIE report analyzes another example of how regional and even local businesses, as well as national corporations, are finding a cost-effective way to access Big Data in support of day-to-day business needs and decision making. The report also analyzes the potential pitfalls of such an approach; and what businesses and providers alike ne...

In this years look forward, Stratecast provides a view of likely developments in the multiple dimensions in the communication space. The very complex interplay of the economy, consumer perceptions and technology ultimately make such an exercise more of an art than a science. Nevertheless, as the reader will discover, Stratecasts predictions for 2...

As the wireless market in North America approaches saturation, year-on-year subscriber growth rates continue to decline; yet, wireless service providers are still adding both prepaid and postpaid subscribers. The following charts detail current subscriber counts, revenue and market share, as well as our predictions for the future.

This report delivers an assessment and market profiles for more than 50 suppliers, provides a market share analysis based on recent financial information, and establishes a five-year forecast for the billing mediation market.