Information Technology

For businesses operating in 2018, the “cloud journey” has been superseded by the “digital transformation journey.” Rather than an end unto itself, the cloud is now recognized as a means to achieving the agility, speed to market, innovation, and value they need to compete in the digital economy. Cloud services provide a strong foundation to ...

With managed cloud infrastructure services—also called Managed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)—businesses engage a third-party provider to procure, configure, manage, and/or maintain the cloud infrastructure supporting their workloads. But there’s an irony here. By definition, IaaS is on-demand, self-service, automated, elastic, and pay-pe...

For most businesses, the on-premises data center remains a critical component of their IT environment. However, those same businesses desire the efficiency and flexibility of the cloud model within their private environments. They therefore need to optimize infrastructure to enable the business to launch new applications and services, quickly, secu...

Without automation, IAM solutions will be unable to keep pace with the proliferation of access points and users, the immediacy of response required, and the number of stakeholders needing access to system status and the data itself. Most important, without a more comprehensive approach to automation, IAM will be unable to stay a step ahead of the ...

Stratecast research on the demand for connectivity reflects consumers’ growing appetite, as well as willingness to spend. For network operators, consumers’ deepening dependency on connectivity spells business opportunity. The symbiotic relationship among connectivity, devices, and applications may portend a silver lining for network operators. ...

For global enterprises seeking to standardize on a provider with a hybrid enablement platform that can manage a very wide array of resources, Indian communications provider Tata Communications may be just what the company needs to achieve its hybrid goals. The company’s hybrid enablement platform spans many popular hypervisors and operating syste...

In this paper, we present insights from a recent SD-WAN end-user survey on businesses’ mindset regarding three WAN functions while evaluating SD-WAN solutions. The analysis specifically focuses on businesses’ router, firewall and WAN optimization strategies that accompany SD-WAN deployments.

For organizations, large and small, the use of third-party vendors in a variety of functions is a recurring part of their operations. And like malicious insiders, cyber criminals, hactivists, and nation-states, the cyber risks associated with third-party vendors should receive similar attention across all stages of cyber risk management: identifica...

With our recently conducted 2018 Cloud User Survey, some patterns are beginning to emerge. Some workloads initially deployed in the public cloud are now being moved back into a premises data center, in a trend known as “repatriation.” And for the first time, we are seeing a decline in the number of businesses that use cloud Infrastructure as a ...