Information Technology

Despite a strong rebound in the first half of 2021, YoY growth in the APAC network security market witnessed a slowdown in Q4 2021. The market achieved a steady YoY growth of 8.2% in Q4 2021, driven by the strong growth in South Korea, ANZ, and Japan. Firewall remained the biggest technology segment; its double-digit year-over-year growth rate o...

High-speed broadband services, continued penetration of advanced mobile devices that encourage developments in the cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) markets, and the resurgence of unlimited mobile plans are the top drivers of the North American mobile communications market. This tracker presents the metrics for Tier I m...

This research service examines the Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) market in Europe. The CCaaS market comprises full-suite hosted interactive voice response (IVR), automatic call distribution (ACD), chat, outbound, and agent performance optimization (APO) applications. The study analyzes the total market size in the base year 2020 and provides ...

The APAC network security market witnessed a slower YoY growth of 7.8% in Q3, 2021, when compared to the double-digit YoY growth of 16.7% the previous quarter; this indicates a steady post-crisis recovery and shift out of the market’s strong rebound phase. The firewall segment remained the biggest technology segment driving the overall network se...

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 ...