Information Technology

A fierce competitive battle is raging at the Wide Area Network (WAN) edge, and this battle is far from over. The battleground is Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), and the combatants are many. By applying application and network-aware algorithms to routing WAN traffic across multiple transport links, enterprises can more economically satisfy their grow...

The Software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) market has evolved from the early adopter stage to the early growth stage of the product lifecycle. Frost & Sullivan’s previous survey, in 2016, provided insights into the SD-WAN market as it was navigating through the early adopter stage. In the last two years, enterprise decision makers have equi...

Hybrid clouds are becoming a standard configuration in enterprise IT, with the majority of US businesses in 2018 having already deployed, or planning to deploy, a hybrid environment. In building their hybrid clouds, enterprises seek to create a seamless pool of resources across the business’s premises and the cloud. They also expect to centrally ...

The global Identity and Access Management market is a rarity in the communications industry’s software sector. It is a mature market of approximately 20 years, dating back to the early days of password management; yet, after continuous innovation and evolution in the face of serious scale, security, and productivity challenges, IAM is now enterin...

If any enterprises or technology pundits still doubted that hybrid cloud is the dominant IT model, last week’s announcement of AWS Outposts will change their minds. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the market leader and de facto inventor of the public cloud, surprised many in the market by launching a hybrid cloud solution that extends the company’s ...

For businesses operating in 2018, the “cloud journey” has been superseded by the “digital transformation journey.”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 ...