For the fifth consecutive year, Stratecast’s Big Data and Analytics group conducted its annual BDA survey. In this year’s survey, Stratecast asked high level executives, involved with BDA and purchasing decisions, topics on: --IS/IT and Business Priorities --Big Data and Analytics Usage and Plans to Implement --Perceptions and Opinions about ...

Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) services, as defined in this study, are business internet services that include the following features: • Business-grade, dedicated internet connections that offer symmetrical upload and download speeds • Service level agreements from providers that ensure availability and performance guarantees (latency, jitter...

An important metric in assessing the state of the consumer communication services market is the total per consumer spending devoted to such services. This metric—the share of wallet—provides important insights into, not only the importance of communications, but the degree to which a consumer devotes personal resources to satisfy his or her dem...

What is required is a way for enterprises to manage their infrastructure in the new distributed environment. This is where infrastructure management comes in. In some cases, evolved from the older network management applications, but increasingly delivered by a new breed of solutions, infrastructure management extends management end to end to manag...

In this report, Frost & Sullivan reviews adoption trends in managed cloud services, based on the most recent Frost & Sullivan Cloud User Survey. We look at which businesses are adopting managed services, as well as their expectations of their chosen providers. Results are presented by business size and industry, to determine differences in expectat...

This report discusses the primary benefits of NoSQL; barriers to adoption of NoSQL; the ready availability of NoSQL solutions, as exemplified by some of the top providers thereof; and competitive dynamics at work in the space. The report then makes specific recommendations for enterprises and vendors deploying NoSQL.

The lack of consensus with regard to real-time analytics technologies is creating a barrier to entry for those who wish to deploy it. This report is designed to be meaningful and useful for anyone engaged in exploring, selecting, specifying, deploying, and managing solutions to provide organizations with real-time analytic insights. The report di...

Phishing, hacking, account takeover, and many other threats await security professionals every moment of every day. Privileged Access Management (PAM) assists in mitigating these threats. Used in conjunction with other management and assessment tools, PAM presents an even stronger defense and a more multi-level approach to overall security. PAM is...

Artificial intelligence (AI)—especially machine learning technologies as applied to advanced analytics—provides a way to transcend the limitations of human analysis, and evolve from a data-centric IT to an information-centric IT. AI provides the capabilities to deliver a true intelligence technology: one that, once trained, requires no human in...