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The EU Parliament approved the GDPR in April 2016. To allow the region and the world to adjust to the sweeping changes it contains, the EU established a two-year acclimation period, and will begin enforcing the GDPR on 25 May 2018. This Stratecast report offers our assessment of the content and impact of the key provisions of GDPR, in the EU and a...

To gauge the changing perceptions and behaviors regarding cloud services, Frost & Sullivan conducted its seventh annual Cloud User Survey of U.S.-based IT decision-makers, via Web, in March 2017. A total of 410 valid responses were returned, providing a +/-5% margin of error at a 95% confidence level. In this SPIE, Stratecast|Frost & Sullivan pre...

Research from the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) shows that over 50% of Web traffic is now encrypted, since 2016. As the amount of encrypted traffic mounts, enterprises are being forced into difficult decisions, choosing between visibility and data privacy. An all-together new approach to inspecting encrypted traffic, without exposing sens...

The ODAM sector is now forced to respond to a virtualization transformation idea—it can hardly be called a plan—that was basically sprung on them with no clear direction for simultaneously supporting the physical and virtual components of a hybrid network. The idea of winging it for operations and monetization support leads to drama. The pres...

The pressing need for fast, yet comprehensive, decision-support calls for automated analytics tools. Yet, the complexity appears to daunt even software providers. Although several companies have introduced platforms that compare costs among cloud service providers, few extend their purview into the enterprise data center—and almost none consider ...

If 2016--the base year for our 2017 CSP monetization solution supplier market share and forecast assessment--saw some change from the status quo, 2017 and beyond will provide a much larger redirection in the way CSP monetization and business management solutions are purchased and used. This report is essential reading for not only understanding the...

Industries are flocking to the IoT because of the potential benefits; and falling prices on compute power, bandwidth, connectivity, and sensors are only accelerating the effect. As a result, and as this report will show, those deploying the IoT are thrusting ordinary objects that were never designed with the Internet in mind out onto the front line...

Since 2009, Stratecast has conducted an annual North American Consumer Communication Services (CCS) Survey. This survey is designed to understand consumer perceptions on landline phone, wireless/cellular phone, Internet access and subscription video services. As well as, identify consumers’ use of technologies such as over-the-top (OTT) and Inter...

The best catalog-based solutions for CSPs will be those that perform incredibly complex acrobatics on the inside; yet, take usability to a new level of simplicity on the outside; and extend that usability to a broad set of traditional and non-traditional stakeholders. Leveraging analytics will be a big change to building and operating catalogs; but...