Industries

Serverless computing represents one more step on the path away from cumbersome monolithic applications to more agile software approaches that speed development and deployment time. Such “cloud-native” applications are designed to leverage the flexible infrastructure of the cloud by abstracting application logic from the underlying server hardwa...

Migrating applications and data from the premises to the cloud is much harder than it seems. Three-quarters of businesses surveyed by Frost & Sullivan say migration represents a top hindrance to cloud implementation. The challenges are both technical and non-technical, and include the physical challenge of moving vast amounts of data to the cloud, ...

Banking and financial services institutions are key drivers of economic growth globally--as brokers between consumer savings and business investments, and as loan and money suppliers. However, the accelerating pace of technology innovation, the emerging influence of big technology companies, and dramatic changes in consumer behavior have disrupted ...

Channel partner relationships are like a three-legged stool, with vendors, partners, and businesses all reaping benefits from the relationship. For customers, channel partners often provide a high-touch, consultative approach that allows them to get to know the business’ needs and goals and offers a trusted, expert view of how to make their goals...

This report examines the more than 45 global suppliers offering Financial Assurance solutions, and discusses the importance of each of the three parts of the Financial Assurance domain. It assesses the direction these three markets are heading, and why. In addition, the report provides a market share analysis of the global Financial Assurance marke...

Even if predictive maintenance were to become widespread in the manufacturing vertical, it would impact only one area of a manufacturer’s operations. BDA has the potential to leverage data collected through IoT—and almost 40 other areas—to do much more for manufacturing companies, in almost every corner of the enterprise. This report analyzes...

In this report, we examine the challenges enterprises face in migrating data and workloads to the cloud. We look at several approaches to handling data migration, as well as the benefits and liabilities of each approach from the enterprise customer’s perspective. Finally, we review the services offered by selected providers in the market.

This Stratecast report briefly explores why NoSQL databases came into existence in the first place; the pros and cons of these databases compared to relational DBs; how each of the two DB types is evolving to be more like the other; and how this has led to the development of SQL-based systems that can query all types of data. It then discusses two ...

In today’s impression of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) architecture—despite suppliers’ and standards bodies’ best efforts at creating management and orchestration frameworks—there are gaps in the spaces where service quality management, assurance, customer experience management, analytics, and orchestration should meet. This repo...