Information Technology

Software providers are beginning to develop software-based management solutions that offer tools for managing a heterogeneous storage environment. Among these, FalconStor’s FreeStor platform shows promise as a sophisticated software-defined storage platform that enables businesses to derive maximum value from their storage.

This paper is a wakeup call to traditional enterprises. It is meant to serve as a warning of what will, in the very near term, characterize the competition. The time cushion to identify and validate a market need, and garner first-mover benefits before the competition, is evaporating. Within the year, Stratecast projects that a new form of business...

This Report – Global CSP Billing 2016 Edition Part 1: End-to-End CSP Billing Market Forecast and Market Share Analysis offers a market share analysis and five-year market forecast for the overall, end-to-end global CSP billing market. It identifies the overall billing industry leaders, and highlights billing solution leaders by revenue within the...

This Stratecast report discusses the major challenges that the healthcare industry faces; how fitness trackers are both adding to the challenges and pointing toward solutions; and the benefits that are already accruing to those who are taking strides toward acquiring, managing, and leveraging data. It also discusses data privacy issues that must be...

The transformation to cloud, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) will not only change the communications industry, but every industry that touches and depends upon it. If executed successfully, this transformation will be more than radical; it will elevate the CSPs that choose to undergo this transformation ...

This research insight will provide actionable recommendations of not only where to start but also a methodology of how to proceed on the path of improving an SMB’s cyber security posture. Additionally, it includes recommendations to security providers that are looking to address this market segment.

This report examines the technological state of the home market from the perspective of enabling market growth. It seeks to demonstrate that the market is primed for explosive growth if only the various players focus on the user experience. It will be of interest to any company that wishes to participate in the connected home market.

In this SPIE, we discuss the emerging concept of “fog computing,” and examine the network’s role in Internet of Things and other distributed computing use cases. We consider challenges enterprises face in deploying a fog architecture, and providers’ efforts to facilitate adoption, including Equinix’s Interconnection Oriented Architecture....

This report uses the demand characteristics of millennials as a model for identifying how CSPs should expand their business management solutions to better meet the personal engagement needs of their customers. With the evolution to DSPs in various stages of planning and implementation, this report also explains how one solution supplier partnership...