IT Services and Applications

Serverless computing solutions process and analyze large volumes of data at the edge of customer networks and help meet infrastructure requirements of Internet of Things networks. Serverless computing saves hardware and maintenance costs for customer enterprises and reduces latency. Larger businesses can limit or shrink the size of their server fle...

Edge computing pushes intelligence, data processing, analytics, and communication capabilities to where the data originates: at network gateways or endpoints. The aim is to reduce latency and ensure efficient networks, operations, service delivery, and an improved user experience. By bringing computing closer to the data source, edge computing enab...

The infrastructure as a service and platform as a service (IaaS and PaaS) industry has undergone a significant evolution in the past year. Macroeconomic instability has negatively affected IT investments and cloud spend, ushering in a growing focus on cloud cost optimization. In tandem, the arrival of generative AI (GenAI) on the scene has necessit...

The Frost Radar on the configure, price, quote (CPQ) software industry analyzes providers offering software solutions that allow businesses to simplify and automate the process of creating customized quotes for complex products or services and avoid costly errors. This Frost Radar plots 12 selected providers based on 10 growth and innovation ...

As enterprises increase their use of both cloud and physical infrastructures to support their digital business, they require tools that enable easy, efficient, and consistent management of all environments. As such, hybrid cloud management platforms have evolved to provide common functionality across infrastructures, architectures, and vendors. The...

According to business respondents to the 2023 Frost & Sullivan Global Cloud User survey, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) represent the most critical aspects of digital transformation. As such, companies continue to build hybrid, multicloud environments to support strategic business goals, such as revenue growth, rapid response to market dema...

The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) market is experiencing rapid growth in Latin America. This Frost Radar identifies six market leaders: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Huawei, Google Cloud Platform, IBM, and Oracle; offers insight into their best practices, differentiators, and areas of excellence; and p...

The internet of things (IoT) ecosystem comprises hardware, software/application/platform, professional services, managed services, and connectivity market participants. The hardware component encompasses physical devices the tangible and deployable elements of IoT solutions including chipsets, connectivity modules, SIM cards, and the devices themse...

Dedicated internet access (DIA) has become a must-have for businesses that rely heavily on cloud applications because any interruption in connectivity will negatively impact their operations. DIA delivers the guaranteed bandwidth, reliable connectivity, and symmetrical upload and download speeds required to ensure performance. In the last few ye...