“While the CLI remains the dominant mechanism for more than 85% of system engineers to implement network changes, several alternatives are gaining popularity, including APIs, fabrics, and SD-WAN. By 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will use the CLI as their primary interface, down from 85% at YE16.”...
Published: Jul 19, 2017
Today, less than 5% of network operations teams are sufficiently skilled to realize the value possible from network analytics and automation solutions. This will improve over the next three years, but not much—by 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will be able to fully realize the benefits of these tools....
Published: Jul 19, 2017
Look at the reality that is digital disruption and why it's happening, alongside who the digital disruptors are and why they're achieving success.
“Since 2000, 52% of combines in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired, ceased to exist or dropped out.” - Ray Wang, Principal...
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Validating application and service delivery is key to the ongoing success of most organizations. The right network performance management and diagnostics (NPMD) solution can help enterprises avoid the negative financial and customer service implications of anomalous events, while maintaining optimal performance of IT resources....
Published: Aug 23, 2017
The Tenth Annual State of the Network Global Study focuses a lens on the network team's role in security investigations. Results indicate that 88 percent of network teams are now spending time on security issues. In fact, out of 1,035 respondents, nearly 3 out of 4 spend up to 10 hours per week working exclusively...
Published: Aug 23, 2017
Microsoft Office 365 delivers powerful business productivity tools in the cloud, but managing it can be complex. How do you migrate all your email and accounts and minimize downtime? How do you manage daily support and troubleshooting? What about all the new features that are released?
In this white paper, learn how...
Published: Sep 13, 2017
Migrating applications is a subject that can strike fear into the heart of even the most seasoned IT professional. Stories of poorly executed migrations abound, and they often cost businesses dearly in terms of time and money. As organizations consider migrating applications out of their own data centers and into the cloud,...
Published: Sep 19, 2017
Microsoft® Hyper-V® Server offers the cost and efficiency advantages of virtualization, along with centralized management and control, built-in redundancy features like clustering and a unified set of orchestration tools.
And with its release of Windows® Server® 2016, Microsoft delivers even more Hyper-V...
Published: Sep 19, 2017
Ready to start using Microsoft® Azure®, but not sure how to get started?
Have teams within your organization opened Azure accounts that you need to consolidate? Maybe you inherited some Azure workloads through a merger or acquisition? Or perhaps you’ve concluded that working with Microsoft’s offering...
Published: Sep 19, 2017
Service providers around the world share concerns about running out of bandwidth. Business challenges surrounding continued bandwidth growth, linked to video, mobility, and cloud applications, are significant. Service providers also report declining revenue from a cost-per-bit perspective, so not only does the network...
Published: May 08, 2014
A lot of enterprises are talking about SIP trunking today, but in order to be a part of the conversation you need to know: A) How is a SIP trunk different than your current PRI trunks?, B) What are the benefi ts of SIP trunking?, and C) What equipment do you need to get started?
To help you answer A, B and C, we’ve...
Published: Apr 18, 2014
Many companies embracing a “wireless first” approach to networking are creating a chasm between wired and wireless network security. This has led to two sets of policies, processes, and controls for network security, resulting in vulnerabilities and operational overhead.
To prepare for new IT initiatives...
Published: Sep 15, 2016
FACT: With data dispersed across the enterprise, IT organizations struggle to manage, analyze, and secure their networks. A Visibility Fabric can provide pervasive visibility across the network.
Published: Oct 11, 2013
In order to provide branch office employees the same voice experience as in the headquarters, organizations need to consider solutions that provide voice service continuity through a resilient, enterprise-grade telephony architecture. A single-point-of-failure architecture may render remote offices completely unreachable...
Published: Jun 07, 2013