Research Center

Think about this. More than half of the service providers surveyed at the recent SDN and MPLS International Conference in Washington, D.C., have implemented production software-defined networks (SDN), yet 70 percent of those same service providers don’t think their network teams are ready to make it work and nearly all (94 percent) believe that SDN requires new management tools and that existing systems won’t cut it.... More Info

Think back to those dark ages known as the pre-cloud era. But don't rewind the clock too far, Amazon introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud just nine years ago.... More Info

Enterprises and digital service providers are facing unprecedented revenue growth opportunities in 2015 and beyond, driven in large part by the explosion of services addressing the needs of today’s hyper-connected user. Customer preferences are quickly shifting from an explicit set of product offerings to an infinite array of “on-demand” services, “always open” store fronts, and “accessible anywhere” delivery channels.... More Info

Everyone who has even a basic understanding of computing is familiar with the concept of virtualization thanks to hard drive partitioning and multi-threading. Hard drive partitioning separates a physical hard disk into multiple logical partitions, which can appear and function as distinct hard drives.... More Info

Operators and enterprises are looking to the cloud to deliver advanced and flexible services more efficiently. At the same time, demand for managed quality, especially by enterprises for mission critical applications, is driving users toward more stringent service-level agreements and proactive management.... More Info