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This report looks at some of the ways virtualization changes what CSPs must look for to gauge performance; and how they must view the character of their networks and services based on new metrics. While Stratecast has always blanched at the characterization, by some pontificators, of CSPs and their networks as dinosaurs in this industry, it might n...

This SPIE is somewhat unique in that, rather than focusing externally on market forces, Stratecast is taking a hard look in the mirror. Is what we offer so unique that AI technology cannot replace us? Can AI provide the same sorts of market advantages that engaging with an analyst firm can? This SPIE explores these questions.

This SPIE report discusses the software-defined data center, including its evolution from virtualization technology. It also assesses the benefits and challenges of current SDDC platforms, and how Stratoscale answers those challenges with its Symphony platform. Finally, the report reviews the Symphony platform, including its architecture, features ...

Stratecast is currently tracking approximately 600 vendors of Big Data and analytics (BDA) solutions. Stratecast has organized vendors into 18 solution types, grouped into the five broad categories: Big Data & Analytics Core Products and Services; Business Process and Strategic Analytics; Mobile, Retail, and Location Analytics; Social and Site Anal...

This Stratecast report analyzes today’s brave new world of broadband services, and highlights five areas where CSPs need to be focusing mindshare and resources in order to differentiate themselves from their rapidly-expanding pool of large, well-funded competitors.

By 2025, the combined value of IoT technologies could reach more than $6 trillion. So, it would seem imperative that the market understand what Big Data, AI, and machine learning are, and how they can work together. This Stratecast report briefly discusses exactly that, and presents results that a growing number of organizations are achieving, and ...

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...

The field of predictive analytics is one of the most complex and challenging subsets of the Big Data and advanced analytic market. There is also a very wide gap between the practitioners of predictive analyticsmost of whom are statisticians, scientific researchers and data scientistsand the people who most want to use predictive analytics for com...

This report asserts that real-time analytics is not settled science. It is not a foregone conclusion that every company needs and can afford real-time analytics in all areas of the business. There is also not, at this time, one shining example for all to follow in deploying it; but, instead, several models. Therefore, this report explores these a...