Stratecast research on the demand for connectivity reflects consumers’ growing appetite, as well as willingness to spend. For network operators, consumers’ deepening dependency on connectivity spells business opportunity. The symbiotic relationship among connectivity, devices, and applications may portend a silver lining for network operators. ...

For global enterprises seeking to standardize on a provider with a hybrid enablement platform that can manage a very wide array of resources, Indian communications provider Tata Communications may be just what the company needs to achieve its hybrid goals. The company’s hybrid enablement platform spans many popular hypervisors and operating syste...

In this paper, we present insights from a recent SD-WAN end-user survey on businesses’ mindset regarding three WAN functions while evaluating SD-WAN solutions. The analysis specifically focuses on businesses’ router, firewall and WAN optimization strategies that accompany SD-WAN deployments.

For organizations, large and small, the use of third-party vendors in a variety of functions is a recurring part of their operations. And like malicious insiders, cyber criminals, hactivists, and nation-states, the cyber risks associated with third-party vendors should receive similar attention across all stages of cyber risk management: identifica...

Frost & Sullivan’s 2016 survey provided insights into the SD-WAN market as it was navigating through the early adopter stage. In the last two years, enterprise decision makers have equipped themselves with a much better understanding of the benefits that SD-WAN brings to enterprise WANs. SD-WAN vendors and managed SD-WAN providers alike report wi...

As of mid-2018, attackers showed that they have no intentions of slowing their relentless development of new attack techniques, as evidenced by a re-discovered tactic of abusing open source protocols to create diffraction attacks that bypass static detection rules. This is a known but rare tactic that challenges traditional detection methods, and d...

A fascinating aspect of the cloud era is the expanding options for organizations to move from being owners to renters of IT capabilities. From a security perspective, decreasing ownership also transfers blocks of responsibility from cloud customers to the cloud services provider. This, in essence, is the shifting attribute of the cloud shared respo...

Spreadsheets are ubiquitous and largely a default tool for data analysis; yet, they are also a trap and one which will increasingly limit the ability of companies to compete effectively. Yes, they provide a useful way to visualize data, but their limitations, especially in an age of big data, can seriously compromise a company’s ability to extrac...

The cloud infrastructure market is highly consolidated, with the top three providers holding nearly 85% of the US market. The market leaders have earned their dominance, with scale, product quality, and continual innovation. They have also hampered competition in the market. And yet, the market continues to support IaaS providers beyond the big 3....