From the IBM Center for the Business of Government: Enabling technology will increase expectations and performance, while driving down costs. Technology, which has already had profound impact on government, will continue to be a game changer in the way government operates and interacts with the … [Read more...]
Gigaom Research: Private PaaS the Next Generation for Enterprises
Gigaom Analyst David S. Linthicum Executive Summary In October of 2012 we provided a Sector RoadMapTM for the still-emerging PaaS market that focused on the basics of that particular technology. The examined vectors in that report were application infrastructure, database management, … [Read more...]
Gigaom Research: NFV adoption to transform telecommunications infrastructure
by Lee Doyle Executive Summary Communications Service Providers (CSPs), including wire line, wireless, and cable providers, need to innovate to keep up with the competitive pressure of the rapidly changing network environment. As more of the value (and revenues) flow to … [Read more...]
Public vs. Private Clouds
Questioning the use of private clouds by David S. Linthicum, Gigaom Analyst Since the rise of cloud computing, enterprises have often preferred the use of private clouds, to public clouds. This was largely due to control and security issues, or, at least the perception that public clouds had … [Read more...]
Gigaom Research: Infrastructure as a service basics a guide for it pros
by Janakiram MSV Executive Summary Though it started as a phenomenon primarily driven by startups, public cloud is gaining traction among all customer segments including large enterprises. When compared to Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a … [Read more...]
Gigaom Research: A field guide to the software-defined data center
By Gigaom Research analyst Frank J. Ohlhorst Executive Summary The changing focus from hardware-based infrastructure products to software-based solutions is spawning a new ideology in the data center. Backed by virtualization technologies, hardware abstraction, and the quest for instant … [Read more...]
Gigaom Research: Cloud security market landscape, 2013–2017
Research by Keren Elazari - Cyber Security Industry Analyst Executive Summary Cyberthreats are now a critical issue affecting the national security of nation countries worldwide. This is thanks to a few factors: the rise of cloud computing and big data and the sometimes unclear virtual … [Read more...]
Gigaom Research: Steps for finding the best route to the cloud
By Gigaom Research analyst David S. Linthicum This report underwritten by: CoreSite Executive Summary As enterprises of all sizes move to the cloud, the number of failed cloud implementations continues to climb. Enterprises are still looking for ways to gain control over the chaos of ad hoc, … [Read more...]
Gigaom Research: How big data analytics drives competitive advantage
By Gigaom Research Analyst Ben Woo Managing Director - Neuralytix, Inc. Executive Summary In these lean and mean times, enterprises are turning to third-party specialists in the big data analytics industry to help them find the proverbial needle in the data haystack. After all, few companies … [Read more...]