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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...

Taking a practical approach to AI simplifies the decision to implement AI capabilities; but it also ensures that AI-enabled tools will deliver value upon implementation, rather than requiring a protracted period of training and customization. Sales engagement, in particular, will generate immediate returns on investment as tuned AI functionality co...

As new technologies enter the market, consumers are increasingly willing to consider a connected home as a possible living environment. This report examines the state of the connected home market, illuminates some of the barriers to growth, and considers some of the companies that are delivering solutions to transcend those barriers. The discussion...

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...

Industries are flocking to the IoT because of the potential benefits; and falling prices on compute power, bandwidth, connectivity, and sensors are only accelerating the effect. As a result, and as this report will show, those deploying the IoT are thrusting ordinary objects that were never designed with the Internet in mind out onto the front line...

This report examines the state of weather-aware business processes and the effect of AI on business processes. We then discuss how IBM is applying AI technology advances, IBM Watson and The Weather Company, to optimize the business processes of its clients. This will be of interest to any business that is weather-dependent: that is, all businesses.

This report looks at some of the ways virtualization changes what CSPs must look for to gauge performance; and how they must view the character of their networks and services based on new metrics. While Stratecast has always blanched at the characterization, by some pontificators, of CSPs and their networks as dinosaurs in this industry, it might n...

Even if predictive maintenance were to become widespread in the manufacturing vertical, it would impact only one area of a manufacturer’s operations. BDA has the potential to leverage data collected through IoT—and almost 40 other areas—to do much more for manufacturing companies, in almost every corner of the enterprise. This report analyzes...

The Krebs On Security attack, and subsequent attacks observed since, cast a spotlight on the heretofore undefined risk of IoT-based DDoS attacks. This market insight will explore the DDoS risk associated with IoT devices, and implications for IoT DDoS mitigation practices.