Information Technology

While the cloud model can be equally attractive to every company size, one sector has been particularly relentless in pursuing a cloud strategy: midmarkets. In the Frost & Sullivan 2019 Global Cloud Survey, midmarket firms are consistently among the highest adopters of services across the cloud stack—Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform a...

Platform Equinix offers one of the broadest data center footprints and portfolio of interconnection services in the market, with a digital ecosystem that includes: 1700+ network providers, 800+ digital content providers, 1250+financial services companies, 2900+ cloud and IT services providers, and nearly 3000 global enterprises. While network ser...

The 2018 US wholesale Carrier Ethernet services market revenues exceeded $5.15 billion. Key factors sustaining market growth include: --Continued demand from wireline carriers—traditional interexchange carriers (IXCs), competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), and international carriers seeking to expand their network footprint --Business mar...

The 2019 Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) report offers our first glimpse at global adoption of DRaaS. Not surprisingly, global trends mimic the U.S., with nearly half of businesses surveyed by Frost & Sullivan currently using DRaaS to protect their data. An additional 34% of businesses say they expect to implement DRaaS by 2021, bringing tot...

As cloud migration and adoption continue to grow, enterprises are increasingly deploying a hybrid environment, comprising public and private, on-premises and hosted infrastructure resources. With the aid of versatile hybrid cloud platforms that support common management and orchestration across different deployment models, enterprises have gained v...

Carrier Ethernet continues to be the de facto wide area network (WAN) connectivity service choice among businesses of all sizes, due to the benefits it offers: scalability, reliability, and cost efficient bandwidth. U.S. Business Ethernet market revenues exceeded $6.5 billion in 2018. Frost & Sullivan defines business carrier Ethernet services as...

The most significant trend in both email and web security markets is the acceleration of organizations migrating to the cloud. The cloud is driving new email security and web security strategies. Enterprises are interested in transitioning to cloud-delivered security to reduce cost/complexity, simplify security for mobile users, and adopt new capab...

Much has been written about the looming shortage of skilled resources to fill technology jobs in the digital era. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects computer and information technology jobs to grow 13 percent from 2016-2026, faster than the average of all other occupations, with 560,000 new jobs being added during that period. The European ...

For many IT departments, the drive to deliver new services faster than ever before has led them to seek faster and more efficient means of supporting complex, business-critical applications like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications—particularly those deployed using market-leading Oracle and SAP platforms. Managed application services h...