Information Technology

As the largest event in the world dedicated to the future of cities, the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona brought together urban planners, public administrators, and technology innovators to debate a more citizen-centric vision for the connected urban space.

Although the financial services, telecommunication, and retail industries have been investing in Big Data analytics (BDA) for a while, adoption by utilities is still at a relatively early stage—partly because of their predominantly cautious mentality.

Bitcoin is a powerful and successful digital currency. Based on cryptography and a decentralized ledger, it has simultaneously been heralded as the future of finance and a gateway to the criminal underworld.

In this SPIE, the first in a series of reports detailing the results of the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Cloud User Survey, we look at the adoption trends for public, hosted private, and bare metal cloud services.

In this years look forward, Stratecast provides several views voiced by our analyst teams of likely developments in the multiple dimensions of the communications marketplace, including those tied to: Big Data, business services, cloud, connected home, consumer services, the operations & monetization functions, and secure networking. These prognost...

This report will be useful to providers of infrastructure services, platforms, and equipment, which are interested in tracking how their customers use their infrastructure products. It will also be useful to software providers that are interested in tracking the evolution of software consumption models.

This paper explores the current capabilities of the 4G network infrastructure in the United States, looks at future developments, and explores the desirability of continuing to build telecommunication public policy on the proposition that there is a divide between the Internet haves and have-nots that needs to be bridged though governmental action....

The North American broadband market ended the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15) with an estimated 108.5 million subscribers, a year-over-year (YoY) increase of 4.0 million subscribers. Broadband providers offering cable, fiber to the x, and satellite contributed to the increase in subscribers.

This market insight summarizes and analyzes survey respondents' preferences and plans regarding mobilized supply chain management (MSCM) offerings. The Frost & Sullivan survey was conducted in mid-2015 and asked mobile and wireless decision-makers in the U.S. and Canadian companies about their MSCM deployment plans and barriers to adoption. Current...