“Anything as a service” is by no means a new idea. From Microsoft Office to Netflix to Uber, consumers are happy to access software, entertainment, transportation and more on demand rather than owning those things outright.
To seize the 5G opportunity and achieve faster time to value, communications...
AppNeta CEO on being acquired by Broadcom: 'This combination could indeed be that rare 1 + 1 = 5 level of partnership'
Broadcom revealed plans to acquire privately held AppNeta, a software company headquartered in Boston, MA that provides an enterprise SaaS-based network performance monitoring...
Services of all kinds are today largely digital — customers expect it, and businesses have benefited from it, saving time and money and agilely expanding services. “As a service” is the new watchword for IT, security and web services, and telecom needs to adopt...
Deloitte provides three reasons that the U.S. digital divide remains
Following the digital divide wake-up call prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the reveal of President Joe Biden's sweeping infrastructure plan, RCR Wireless News spoke with Deloitte Consulting's Chief Cloud Strategy Officer David Linthicum and...
Digital transformation seeps into every aspect of business nowadays, even in the field of telecom project management. This development is a reflection of the larger phenomenon of IT-telecom convergence that is happening today. Dan Zygmunt is at the forefront of this crucial development as...
As Will Rogers once said, “You’ll never get a second chance to make a good first impression.” This statement alone sets the bar for Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings that all successful enterprises should strive to meet. SaaS companies are all around us,...
Inseego is enabling service provider and vertically-focused 5G investments
We’re in the early days of 5G with service providers immediately focused on providing an enhanced mobile broadband experience to consumers and, to a more limited extent, businesses. But, as networks scale and standards continue to...
As enterprises seek to modernize and digitalize their operations, application and cloud integration issues are costing about half of large enterprises between $250,000-$500,000 per year, according to a new survey -- and 4% of respondents reported that poor integration costs their business as much...
The use of software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is well established in the enterprise data center. Now, industrial organizations are beginning to make tentative steps to XaaS offerings for their operational computing. However, there is some trepidation preventing...
Many ‘internet of things’ (IoT) providers are failing to factor installation costs into their business proposals, and both suppliers and customers are coming unstuck as a result. This is the view of IoT specialist Digi, which suggests the IoT market at large still takes...
Cloud myths debunked
Practically everyone in the West has heard of “the cloud,” but not everyone knows what it means. Even those who frequently use the cloud may have misconceptions about its risks and benefits. To put rumors to rest, here are some of the...
Tenable unveils benchmarking solution
Software company Tenable announced a new feature, called Tenable.io Lumin, which the company said will enable organizations to quantify and communicate their cyber risk.
In cyber security, the concept of an “attack surface” refers to the total number of points or vectors...
A growing market
The cloud computing market has become increasingly dense as vendors of all sizes compete for customers who have gravitated to the technology as a way to run their business operations. Research firm IDC projects global public cloud spending will reach $203.4 billion...
Pensa announces Pensa Maestro NFV
Pensa deployed its Pensa Maestro NFV today, a carrier-class software for intelligent automation of network functions virtualization (NFV) services.
Pensa Maestra, a cloud-based platform that enables enterprises to create software-based IT environments to support their applications, serves as the company’s core...
Cradlepoint announces new subscription-based solution pricing model
Moving forward with its Elastic Edge strategy, Cradlepoint announced a new subscription-based solution pricing model for software and cloud-based wireless wide-area networks (WANs). Cradlepoint’s NetCloud Solution Packages serve as a basis for the new model.
Cradlepoint offers an Elastic...
Zayo deploys its own SD-WAN solution
Publicly traded company Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. deployed its SD-WAN yesterday, an integrated extension of the company’s fiber-based IP/MPLS. The purpose of the solution, according to the company, is to make it easier to manage networks by improving performance,...
Equinix unleashes new inter-metro connectivity through cloud exchange fabric
Equinix, a global international and data center company, announced an addition to its interconnection offering, leveraging software-defined network (SDN) to make it easier for different data centers to connect. Specifically, the company said it will move...
The rise of the cloud
Cloud computing is a buzzword with a host of different meanings. Some see it as a method for delivering information technology (IT) services, whereas others view it as a direct way to connect a server. In order to provide clarity...
Introduction
Application program interfaces (APIs) are becoming a major part of the internet. Although the technology has been around for years, the API market has witnessed explosive growth in recent memory. According to an IDC survey of IT and business professionals sponsored by Axway, 47%...
Alphabet soup
Tech jargon is like alphabet soup with acronyms such as NFV, CPU and GUI floating around. With respect to the cloud services industry, their are three acronyms that typically come to mind: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). When a business is...
Accenture predicts a needed shift towards as-a-service models for hardware companies looking to expand services
The biggest high-tech story is the shift by traditional hardware including smartphones, software and platform companies to deliver their offerings as services to business customers and consumers.
But there are...
