Channel partner relationships are like a three-legged stool, with vendors, partners, and businesses all reaping benefits from the relationship. For customers, channel partners often provide a high-touch, consultative approach that allows them to get to know the business’ needs and goals and offers a trusted, expert view of how to make their goals...

As enterprises execute their hybrid cloud strategies, they are looking to simplify critical functions, such as: --moving applications across various infrastructures --optimizing legacy applications --introducing new functionality and services to legacy and cloud applications Increasingly, they are choosing to build and deploy applications in con...

The Frost & Sullivan Global Cloud User Survey tracks perceptions and behaviors related to business cloud decisions. By analyzing Latin American results, in comparison to other regions, we can identify and explore key determinants of cloud mindset and momentum in the region. The current survey was conducted via web in April 2019, garnering respons...

This year’s survey—the first to collect cloud perception data from businesses around the globe—was conducted via the Internet in April 2019. The survey garnered responses from 1266 IT decision-makers from around the world who are responsible for the purchases of IT infrastructure, software, or services for their respective firms. Cloud is re...

In some ways, digitization doesn’t change what we do, only how we do it. Consider the safeguarding of precious intellectual assets (such as documents and creative works). Whether physical or digital, such assets may need to be protected from: --Access by unauthorized persons – Private documents need to remain private. Physical assets may be st...

Today’s hypercompetitive business environment requires not only maintaining the highest levels of system availability, but capitalizing on unique differentiators like data. For most businesses, data—whether customer, research-driven, or market-based—is a concrete asset that is being leveraged in new and different ways, in activities such as p...

As businesses tap new technologies to gain a competitive edge, they are increasingly adding next-generation services like advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain to their applications. According to a 2019 Frost & Sullivan survey of IT decision-makers, adoption of these techno...

Mexico is the second largest Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market in Latin America, behind Brazil; and is responsible for approximately 23% of the region’s market revenues in 2019, according to Frost & Sullivan estimates. However, a few characteristics specific to Mexico have hindered cloud adoption in the last couple of years—although, Fr...

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...