Information Technology

The field of predictive analytics is one of the most complex and challenging subsets of the Big Data and advanced analytic market. There is also a very wide gap between the practitioners of predictive analyticsmost of whom are statisticians, scientific researchers and data scientistsand the people who most want to use predictive analytics for com...

This report explores the current state of the AR market, and the role that devices and applications have in jump starting the growth of this very promising new technology. It also explores the activities of major market participants such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, as they position themselves to capture significant portions of what t...

The report begins with a look at the effect of virtualization on operations support systems (OSS); then, drills down into network inventory, where we analyze how physical, logical and virtual views of the network and its services must come together to support emerging architectures. We note the extraordinary level of OSS transformations currently ...

In this SPIE, Stratecast examines the RackspaceAWS managed services agreement. We look at the benefits for both customers and providers, competition in the marketplace, and the likelihood of the ventures success.

In this analysis, Stratecast provides an overview of the PaaS landscape. We look at the various manifestations of Platform as a Servicepublic and private, open and proprietary, domain-specific and general. We examine the value of PaaS to developers, and what shapes their choices across PaaS providers, including pricing, functionality, and deployme...

Managing network operations as it transitions to a cloud-like environment presents many challenges. Most major OSS suppliers have revealed or launched their cloud strategies; but these strategies have yet to be put to the test. The strategies vary from models in which suppliers host their traditional OSS solutions in the cloud as either fully licen...

This SPIE report briefly discusses the patchwork of remedies that have been devised by governments and industries with the stated intent of protecting data privacy. It then presents approaches that may get to the heart of the matter through privacy solutions based not on industry action or government legislation, but on technology.

In this study, Frost & Sullivan examines the customer needs that drive storage, and the different models that providers are adopting to solve these enterprise needs. We discuss the hyperscale storage versus market niche storage approaches, and the markets best served by each.

Global CSP Billing Part 5 assesses the interconnect & settlement sector and the partner management sector, both individually and in combination. The report establishes a five-year market forecast for these two markets, and a market share analysis of the 66 identified suppliers that operate within them.