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SD-WANs can do double-duty in being a change agent for security. This can be accomplished by tackling two persistent cost-impacting security issues—ineffectiveness and inefficiency attributed to the expanding sprawl of security technologies and rising personnel costs—through convergence, automation, and simplification. How this is possible, spe...

This Stratecast report analyzes today’s brave new world of broadband services, and highlights five areas where CSPs need to be focusing mindshare and resources in order to differentiate themselves from their rapidly-expanding pool of large, well-funded competitors.

This paper examines the state of AI business rationalization, and looks at one company, IBM, that is attempting to provide support to business leaders presented with the decision to adopt AI solutions.

Do CSPs have a chance in the global platform enterprise marketplace, with its expanding base of new business needs? This report provides a viewpoint concerning the changing customer and partner requirements that all CSPs now face, with an emphasis on the virtual services landscape. The report defines how CSPs can engage successfully, with different...

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) has been a boon for cloud and managed service providers, with many bringing offers to market over the last three years. Cloud-based disaster recovery is a service that backs up not only data, but an organization’s environment to a hosted data center that can be activated as needed in the event of a server or...

This SPIE report outlines a few evolutionary routes a CSP might take, and identifies several issues CSPs must keep in mind as they evolve to DSP status. The report also explains why ODAM plays such an integral part within this critical transformation process.

Most organizations understand the direct correlation between customer experience and business performance. The question is how to make those experiences pay off even more through higher revenue per interaction. This SPIE report analyzes how smart companies are achieving just these types of results through artificial intelligence (A.I.) and other te...

In this insight, we outline the operational challenges that a hybrid IT environment presents to security; and we review the merits of Trend Micro’s Hybrid Cloud Security in addressing these challenges.

In this analysis, Stratecast examines business needs that are driving today’s storage solutions, particularly flash storage technologies. We also look at how Violin Memory’s innovative technology addresses key enterprise storage challenges.