Information Technology

The urgency of the bot problem is mounting—particularly when viewed through the lens of credential stuffing and account takeover. Billions of unique credentials have been stolen in recent years, evidenced by the massive breach of 1.5 billion accounts at Yahoo alone. Overall, this exploit trend demonstrates that the pattern of escalation has follo...

In this report, we look at enterprises’ current and planned adoption strategies for SD-WAN; perceived enterprise benefits of SD-WAN; and the criteria that network/IT decision-makers use while evaluating an SD-WAN vendor.

As Communications Service Providers (CSPs) open their networks to ecosystem partners for digital services delivery, they are also opening their operations to application partners. These partners can help address the growing complexity of assuring services, through innovations in analytics. Ciena, for example, an early adopter of the microservices a...

This report discusses how Supply Chain Management (SCM) optimizes not only the supply chain but also two closely related areas: inventory and omnichannel. Omnichannel integration ensures consistency of campaigns, messaging, offers, and, perhaps most importantly, having the right inventory in the right location at the right time.

In this insight, we provide an overview of AWS Shield, and present our perspective on its near-term competitive impact on the DDoS protection market. In addition, we assess the influence of AWS Shield on the future of this market. But first, a summary on the nature of DDoS attacks is valuable in providing perspective on the type of DDoS protection ...

As hybrid configurations evolve, the cloud IaaS market competitive landscape has witnessed some critical changes. The market has consolidated around the big four cloud service providers. A number of providers that entered the public IaaS market over the past decade have exited or scaled back efforts on public IaaS, to focus on a hybrid and/or manag...

What IT leaders have learned is that supporting the needs of a digital business requires more than placing workloads in the cloud; it requires a new way of operating. In recent years, the “IT as a Service” concept has gained favor among forward-thinking businesses, with the IT organization acting as a service broker to the business. In this rol...

This report provides a perspective on how advances with monetization and partner management solutions are enabling organizations in any industry to work individually or in partnership with others, as global digital transformation continues. The report also highlights how one monetization and partner management platform supplier—Ericsson’s Indus...

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...