In December 2018, Dell EMC commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the business value of refreshing servers and infrastructure in enterprise IT departments. Forrester conducted an online survey with 508 IT infrastructure technology decision makers at companies with 100 or more employees in seven countries to explore this topic. We found that although companies are adding ...

In this free PDF download from TechRepublic you’ll learn about the top five programming languages which will help current and new network architects better understand the job’s landscape to design secure and scalable networks. From the download: Designing data networks that meet the needs of today while keeping your options as open to support the ...

IT operations, application teams, and new business strategies are driving businesses to design and build applications that leverage cloud services and alternative consumption models. As companies transform their businesses, ESG research validates the importance of becoming more operationally efficient and sheds further clarity on the importance of utilizing cloud services. Equinix has mapped its platform ...

Transforming Hybrid IT and Edge computing solutions can appear challenging. For many Enterprises the process starts with optimizing the network to meet the requirements for the new strategy. The process starts by identifying the locations with the largest volumes of data transfers across multiple clouds and business partners. By using colocation and interconnection in these ...

IT infrastructure must always be flexible and scalable, which puts IT teams under great pressure to make applications and data quickly available to the business. Can a traditional approach with its own on-premises infrastructure offer the necessary guarantees for these challenges? During this session, Sofie Turcksin and Peter Neefs explain the business drivers that can ...

With the inversion of the traditional network, where users, data, and apps are now on the outside, traditional approaches to security fall short. At most enterprise organizations, the cyber security infrastructure grew organically, resulting in a potpourri of security tools rather than a cohesive security architecture. Legacy security solutions, typically located in the data center, ...

Segment, secure, and enforce the security policies you need to protect your assets. Protecting your data requires more than simple “block” and “allow” functions for end-users. Everything about data usage lives in shades of grey that requires a contextual, adaptive, and observant approach to information access. The concept of Zero Trust addresses these challenges through ...

Expand the boundaries of your web defenses! Get new ideas and advice about increasing your web security and protecting more apps, data, and users. Read the guide that explores the top 6 use cases for Netskope’s Next Gen Secure Web Gateway (SWG). For each use case you get a complete description of: Functional requirements Deployment ...

While network teams focus on performance and availability, security teams are tasked with managing risk tied to data breaches. These two goals have traditionally been at odds, given the impact that delivering security can have on performance. For the most part, user experience and ultimately the speed of the business tend to get a higher ...

What is hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)? In a traditional data environment you will soon come across a few boundaries. And it is precisely those boundaries that have led to more flexible solutions such as hyper-converged. You used to buy new storage or servers every five years. Then you were forced to make an estimate of your ...

Today’s digital world is fast-paced, and communications service providers need to be more efficient, agile, and reliable than ever before. Modern network architectures and technologies like network functions virtualization can speed service delivery, increase flexibility, and boost productivity. However, traditional network configuration management approaches may diminish the benefits of these new technologies. Learn how to ...

Carriers have lowered their costs and created a more agile infrastructure by deploying a variety of virtual network functions (VNFs), including virtual firewalls and virtualized 4G network cores, since network functions virtualization, was conceived 7 years ago. To answer many questions carriers asked, Heavy Reading has released a survey they conducted with 81 service providers. ...

As any CIO will tell you, the best workplace tools improve the employee experience and unlock productivity. So how does Slack stack up? A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Slack crunches the numbers to show just how much companies save by choosing Slack. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay ...

The demand for mobile bandwidth is growing as customers continue to access new services and applications. To remain competitive, telecommunications companies must expand their network while also improving user experience cost-effectively. Radio access networks are an expensive element in mobile networks and often require specialized hardware that can be difficult to upgrade and scale. Because ...

As any CIO will tell you, the best workplace tools improve the employee experience and unlock productivity. So how does Slack stack up? A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Slack crunches the numbers to show just how much companies save by choosing Slack. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay ...