“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
The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) has transformed the way IT services are delivered. But most networks still rely on hardware and manual provisioning.
That’s because hardware was the best available option for many years — even if it was often clunky and complicated to work with, and became outdated...
Published: Apr 12, 2017
The world's largest organizations are adopting cloud-based infrastructure and services at a dizzying pace. Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings such as Salesforce.com and Microsoft Office 365 are among the more popular cloud-based services.
When moving services to the cloud, data centers are no longer local,...
Published: Jun 01, 2015
This research report was commissioned to better understand the risk effect that mobile users - #GenMobile - are having on enterprise security, to determine where risk is highest, and to explain how to minimize #GenMobile security risk. Are you prepared?
Published: May 27, 2015
The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) has transformed the way IT services are delivered, using an open-architecture platform made up of compute, storage, and networking components to make businesses move faster than ever.
Many companies have seen tremendous CapEx savings and efficiency gains by virtualizing compute...
Published: Apr 12, 2017
You want to keep network security high and costs low.
The right network management system does that by preventing human error, the cause of most security failures, and reducing operational expenses.
Learn how you can decrease network complexity and help your IT staff do their jobs better and faster.
Published: Apr 04, 2017