IDC expects Digital Transformation (DX) spending to reach $2.0 trillion in 2020. More than half of this spend will go toward technologies associated with cloud infrastructure, business services, and applications. To achieve the highest return on DX investments, business and IT leaders must place customers, and their experience, at the center of their strategies. Digital ...

Digital Experience Management (DEM) has evolved from traditional network monitoring and application performance management (APM) to become an overwhelmingly important component of IT service delivery and IT-to-business alignment. Featuring recent EMA research on digital, user and customer experience management, this white paper explores the many dimensions of digital experience management and provides insights into: The ...

The digital economy is characterized by a rapidly changing and fast-moving business climate. This “need for speed” has revolutionized application and software delivery, where DevOps and Continuous Delivery have become core competencies. However, yesterday’s toolsets and practices—which relied heavily on human expertise and manual processes—are no longer viable. At the same time, developing and supporting ...

Despite the tremendous promise and tangible business benefits that public cloud can deliver, challenges remain in areas such as simplifying network connectivity to the cloud, providing complete end-to-end digital experience management, and improving the performance and accelerating the release cycle of cloud-based applications. Read this IDC paper to learn how to address these challenges: Simplifying ...

Most modern enterprises understand that in order to attract and retain customers, they must build and deliver outstanding digital services—and do so faster and more effectively than the competition. But while new technologies and business models are changing companies, the true driver of this digital era is the end user and their expectations to have ...

SteelConnect SD-WAN lets OpenEye quickly expand its network while connecting team members to its cloud-based drug design platform in minutes, compared to months required previously. SteelConnect also provides the scalability needed to expand SaaS offerings.

Cloud infrastructure and applications allow elasticity and cost savings, all driven by easy management workflows. These advantages create larger modernization imperatives such as transition to DevOps strategies. With lines of business in enterprises identifies the advantages from the cloud, IT has a choice to make— step up and lead the change or deal with shadow ...

The network plays a fundamental role in enabling the shift to digital. But it simply cannot fulfill this function while it is hardware-bound and hard-coded. The network must become cloudlike to enable delivery of dynamic, rich digital services quickly and easily. This means shifting away from old approaches that require configuration of individual boxes to ...

Digital transformation is the future, but how far are we to the reality? To help answer this, Riverbed just released the findings of its Future of Networking Global Survey 2017, compiled by polling 1,000 large-companies IT decision-makers from around the world. To successfully implement digital transformation, organizations must transition from legacy infrastructures to next-generation technologies ...

Today is the era of digital business. Two-thirds of enterprises are investing in digital business. Digital capabilities and IT were the top two CEO investments in 2016 and the percentage of enterprises creating advanced digital transformation initiatives will more than double by 2020.