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Cloud computing overall is on the cusp of broad adoption in enterprises, but the specific use cases, challenges and attitudes toward the cloud vary widely depending on cloud type and app. Data from Yankee Group's Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 U.S. Cloud Computing FastView Survey breaks down the state of adoption and plans for platform-, infrastructure and software-as-a-service opportunities.
Jul. 15, 2010 | Report | by Sheryl Kingstone | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth
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Whether enterprises have planned for it or not, personally owned smartphones and other consumer technologies are an increasing presence in the workplace. IT staff and business decision-makers can gain efficiency and save money through this consumerization if they evaluate all devices with enterprise-strength fundamentals in mind.
Jun. 29, 2010 | Report | by Eugene Signorini | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth
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Allowing workers to bring personal smartphones to the office is all well and good. But enterprise IT teams must avoid turning a business IT architecture into a free-for-all resembling a college campus network. Implementing specific security tools and network configuration approaches can create the balance between productive/happy employees and a safe, manageable network environment.
Jun. 29, 2010 | Report | by Eugene Signorini | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth
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Newer enterprises are twice as likely to use cloud computing as are older firms. And while small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are often closely associated with the cloud, older SMBs are not as ripe for cloud as assumed. Using data from our enterprise surveys, we show cloud vendors and communications service providers in particular how best to target enterprise customers.
Jun. 21, 2010 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 US Cloud Computing FastView survey is an online survey of more than 400 IT decision-makers. It covers three distinct technologies, namely software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Jun. 15, 2010 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Sheryl Kingstone
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More telecom operators are offering managed public cloud solutions for enterprises. Here we profile five key offerings and determine how well they stack up to current--and future--enterprise needs.
Apr. 26, 2010 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Agatha Poon
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Enterprises are radically redesigning their WANs to accommodate new cloud computing architectures, increased video usage and new business-to-business data-sharing scenarios. Carriers must accommodate these needs by offering both intelligent, managed offerings and simple, fast data services.
Apr. 19, 2010 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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Yankee Group has been talking to consumers, enterprises and corporate decision-makers directly for 40 years, but our approach to primary research has evolved in response to the rapid pace of innovation and transformation wrought by ubiquitous connectivity. How Yankee Group conducts primary research--and what we learn from it--has exciting implications for technology and communication providers.
Mar. 31, 2010 | Report | by Christopher Collins | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth
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What's black and red and not a telco anymore? Verizon Business at least according to Francis Shammo, president of the telecom and enterprise arm of Verizon. "We are not a telco. I don't even know what a telco is anymore....
March 31, 2010 | Blog | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Metro Ethernet Forum's Global Interconnect standard for linking up diverse Carrier Ethernet networks offers carriers both opportunities and challenges. Regional carriers have the most to gain, while global carriers that don't move fast have the most to lose.
Mar. 18, 2010 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Jennifer Pigg
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Trust marks help companies prove to consumers that their Web practices and e-commerce sites are safe, but no two trust marks are alike. We detail the four main types of marks to help consumers and SMBs navigate their true meanings and protection levels.
Feb. 8, 2010 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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Over a quarter of Yankee Group survey respondents say they expect at least a third of their infrastructure to move to cloud computing in the next year, but company-wide adoption remains low. This executive-level research report features interviews with cloud computing pioneers and reveals their unique perspectives and metrics for success in 2010.
Jan. 28, 2010 | Report | by Agatha Poon | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Zeus Kerravala, Jennifer Pigg, Camille Mendler, Sheryl Kingstone, Emily Green
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Financial companies tend to be in the vanguard of enterprise technology adoption, and virtualization is no different. ISVs should learn from the experiences of these early users and realize that if they don't have a strong virtualization story to tell, they probably won't have a place in the enterprise--today or tomorrow.
Jan. 11, 2010 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Agatha Poon
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 2,307 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Dec. 14, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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Our recent webinar on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) highlighted the fact that enterprises have many questions about the economics of VDI, particularly around cost savings, ROI justification, licensing models and investments in back-end infrastructure. Yankee Group provides the answers.
Dec. 14, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,925 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Dec. 11, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 2,116 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Dec. 11, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,546 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Nov. 20, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,734 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Nov. 20, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a potentially game-changing technology for enterprise IT. But as with any emerging technology, IT executives have many questions about its basic concepts, the technology's viability and cost, and the key players in the market. Yankee Group provides the answers.
Nov. 17, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure, Transforming Applications and Empowered Employee Survey is an online survey of 1,100 US IT decision-makers (including line-of-business managers) and 1,400 US employees of large enterprises in the U.S.
Nov. 16, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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At a mid-year review of Yankee Group's Anywhere Large Enterprise: 2009 U.S. Survey Suite, it's evident that today's enterprises are not only facing major data center upgrades, but they're also moving to wireless and opening up their networks to external parties in unprecedented numbers. Enterprise IT users and vendors need to devise clear blueprints to make these transitions as smooth as possible.
Nov. 16, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
The Virtual Desktop Revolution
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) represents the future of enterprise desktop computing, promising greater flexibility, scalability, cost savings and security benefits. But it also represents radical, and possibly painful, changes in market dynamics for providers of endpoint hardware, software and services. In this webinar, Yankee Group analysts Phil Hochmuth and Zeus Kerravala dissect the future of VDI and what the technology has to offer enterprises today.
Nov. 3, 2009 | Live Webinar | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala
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Anywhere Enterprise network infrastructure must become more application- and identity-aware in order to adapt to trends in enterprise computerization, employee mobility, interorganizational resource sharing and IT virtualization. While Cisco, HP, 3Com and Juniper all offer some pieces, none as yet have completed the context-aware network puzzle.
Nov. 3, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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In this webinar, analysts Phil Hochmuth and Zeus Kerravala discuss desktop virtualization in the enterprise.
October 27, 2009 | Blog | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,355 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What are your barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Oct. 13, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,182 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What are your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Sep. 2, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 1,007 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Sep. 2, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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Yankee Group defines cloud computing today as scalable, virtualized information services provided on demand over the Internet with multitenant capability, service-level agreements (SLAs) and usage-based pricing. The objective of cloud computing is to save the enterprise cost and complexity and improve service to the end-user or client.
Aug. 24, 2009 | Report | by Jennifer Pigg | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Eugene Signorini, Sheryl Kingstone, Agatha Poon
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Data loss prevention products are gaining a greater presence in enterprises as more organizations deploy the technology and early adopter deployments move into next phases. However, enterprises still struggle with the complex data classification tasks and policy creation that DLP requires, as well as integrating it with other network and endpoint security systems.
Aug. 19, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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Netbooks will be widely accepted as a legitimate device platform in the enterprise within the next 18 months. SaaS and desktop virtualization will drive growth. Netbook vendors must partner with Citrix and VMware to fuel the flames of adoption.
Aug. 18, 2009 | Report | by Joshua Holbrook | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 211 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Jul. 28, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 211 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Jul. 28, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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Enterprise employees are shifting to WLANs as the primary network access technology when working in the office, but vendors of wired and wireless infrastructure gear still regard 802.11 as a side order to wired Ethernet when it comes to building networks. Enterprises must change this thinking and force vendors to do the same.
Jul. 23, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 211 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier?
Jun. 15, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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'Cloud security' is an amorphous term that hampers growth and adoption of cloud services. The first step toward adoption is identifying the types of cloud services that need securing--SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Only then can the various security and compliance challenges facing each model be examined and solved.
May. 29, 2009 | Report | by Agatha Poon | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth
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At the 2009 RSA Conference, the industry's premier cyber security event held in San Francisco in April, "cloud security" was the topic of the week. Too bad no one knows what this really means. In this report, Yankee Group breaks down the issue into three easy-to-understand concepts, two of which are most relevant to enterprise IT security buyers: security-as-a-service and cloud-enabled intelligence.
May. 19, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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Enterprises must make their network and security technology and management structures into one seamless, streamlined operation to transition to Anywhere IT. Vendors of network and security products should be aware of how connected their customers are in terms of security/network integration, and help facilitate this convergence of roles with products that closely couple security/network operations functionality.
May. 11, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 300 SMBs in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans?
What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy?
What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and select a supplier?
Apr. 29, 2009 | Survey | by Steve Hilton | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Joshua Holbrook, Sheryl Kingstone, Agatha Poon
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The Anywhere Enterprise--Large: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 211 large enterprises in the U.S. The type of questions asked include: What is your deployment status? What is your purchase plans? What barriers/challenges to adoption? What motivates you to deploy? What factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and to select a supplier.
Apr. 29, 2009 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Joshua Holbrook, Sheryl Kingstone
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SMBs can shed the burden of network security management and get back to using IT as a growth catalyst by outsourcing security management to service providers.
Apr. 23, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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Enterprises beating their heads against the problem of endpoint security should explore desktop virtualization to lessen the frequency of malware, network breach and data loss headaches.
Mar. 4, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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Heavy endpoint computing is dead. The future of enterprise desktop computing and applications will be virtual, accessible from anywhere, on any device, via virtualized desktop infrastructure, application streaming, and powered by the Anywhere Network and corporate cloud computing.
Feb. 26, 2009 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise-Small and Medium: 2008 U.S. IT Infrastructure Survey provides an in-depth view of SMBs' current and planned use of infrastructure products and technologies, as well as the associated purchasing and operating issues.
Dec. 31, 2008 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise-Small and Medium: 2008 U.S. IT Infrastructure Survey provides an in-depth view of SMBs' current and planned use of infrastructure products and technologies, as well as the associated purchasing and operating issues.
Dec. 31, 2008 | Survey Executive Summary | by Phil Hochmuth
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The network is a critical business and communications tool
Enterprises also want more mobility and performance out of the LAN and WAN infrastructure
Server virtualization: widely, but not deeply, deployed
Desktop virtualization: a potential game-changer, but questions remain
Dec. 30, 2008 | Survey | by Phil Hochmuth
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The network is a critical business and communications tool
Enterprises also want more mobility and performance out of the LAN and WAN infrastructure
Server virtualization: widely, but not deeply, deployed
Desktop virtualization: a potential game-changer, but questions remain
Dec. 30, 2008 | Survey Executive Summary | by Phil Hochmuth
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Symantec's 2008 worldwide industry analyst conference highlighted how the company is aligning its disjointed pieces into a cohesive solutions company with impressive breadth. But the security vendor is still reacting too slowly to shifts in anti-malware and application whitelisting technologies, as well as the macro trend of enterprise IT consumerization.
Nov. 3, 2008 | Note | by Phil Hochmuth | CO-AUTHORS: Andrew Jaquith
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Data loss prevention products aspire to provide comprehensive enterprise data protection. After a flurry of acquisitions, products and suites from major security vendors are starting to mature, with some hitting the mark better than others.
Aug. 13, 2008 | Report | by Phil Hochmuth
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VMware's replacement of CEO Diane Greene with Paul Maritz is a fight for the Anywhere virtualization leadership--and a strategic move to avoid being "Netscaped" by Microsoft.
Jul. 9, 2008 | Note | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Phil Hochmuth, Gary Chen