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IT executives looking to maximize their UC investments or searching for a way to gain budget approval should make UC a core component of a company's business continuity and disaster recovery plans....
February 9, 2012 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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In 2012, look for the Unified Communications (UC) industry to finally evolve away from using terms like "calls" and "trunks" and replace it with the concept of a "session." I believe this to be an important step on the road to more pervasive UC deployments, particularly mobile UC....
January 3, 2012 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Consumerization, mobility, cloud computing, device evolution and the shift to IPv6 are transforming the corporate network and driving up the number of endpoints connected to it by an order of magnitude, making advancements in network services a necessity. IT managers must look toward active DDI solutions to effectively manage core network services and gain the network agility required to move organizations into the mobile world.
Dec. 6, 2011 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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Back in March, I wrote a blog post about Extreme Networks new positioning around mobility. This was a very bold move for Extreme considering they are best known as a wired switching vendor....
July 20, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Today, Cisco announced AppHQ , a corporate-focused Android app store for its Cius tablet....
June 29, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Cisco today announced AppHQ, an enterprise-focused Android app store for its Cius tablet. The Cius' dedicated corporate focus, along with AppHQ, will be a differentiator for Cisco and allow it to stretch its lead over Microsoft and other competitors.
Jun. 29, 2011 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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I was on a flight earlier this week and watched one of my favorite movies Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . It made me think about how the movie, and even the original TV shows that dated back to the 60, gave us a look into where technology was going and indeed has gone today....
June 27, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Last week the White House announced that Vivek Kundra, the first ever federal government CIO, will leave his position in August. Prior to Kundra, federal IT was considered about as aggressive as Lebron James in the NBA finals....
June 24, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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One of the most important changes in scaling corporate data center has been the evolution of the application delivery controller (ADC). The ADC bridges the network and application environments together....
June 13, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Virtualization, advancements in wireless, cloud computing and an influx of consumer technology in the workplace are redefining the very nature of mobility. Companies that wish to capitalize on new mobility must shed conventional thinking and embrace a more mobile-oriented approach to the architecture and operations of the corporate network.
Jun. 7, 2011 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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In this slide deck, Yankee Group explores 10 common misconceptions about enterprise VoIP. Despite VoIP's maturity, many companies are still hesitant to deploy it. VoIP solution providers must do a better job of educating customers and prospects to accelerate adoption.
Jun. 2, 2011 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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June started with a bang in the corporate video communications market, with Polycom making several announcements, including that it is acquiring Hewlett-Packard's Halo business to strengthen its competitive position against Cisco. Although the news increases the potential for Polycom to gain on market leader Cisco, Polycom needs smart execution to turn potential into share gain.
Jun. 2, 2011 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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Amid much speculation that Polycom was on the selling block, with HP being the primary possible acquirer, Polycom made the following announcements this morning:
Polycom acquired the Visual Collaboration Unit from HP, which includes all of the Halo products and managed services
Polycom and ...
June 1, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Delivering applications to corporate workers over a WAN can be challenging due to different applications' unique performance requirements. Windham Professionals deployed an application delivery network to solve performance woes and achieved up to an 80 percent improvement in application performance while realizing a seven-month ROI.
May. 24, 2011 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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Yankee Group defines the Connected Experience as one that combines networks, devices and content into a seamless engagement that captivates users. Here we explain the network's role in what we estimate is a U.S.$2 trillion Connected Experience opportunity.
May. 17, 2011 | Report | by Chris Nicoll | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala
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Yankee Group defines the Connected Experience as one that combines networks, devices and content into a seamless engagement that captivates users. Here we explain how creating compelling Connected Experiences will put industry players in a position to lead a U.S.$2 trillion market.
May. 17, 2011 | Report | by Sheryl Kingstone | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala
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Yankee Group defines the Connected Experience as one that combines networks, devices and content into a seamless engagement that captivates users. Here we explain content's role in what we estimate is a U.S.$2 trillion Connected Experience opportunity.
May. 17, 2011 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala
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Yankee Group defines the Connected Experience as one that combines networks, devices and content into a seamless engagement that captivates users. Here we explain devices' role in what we estimate is a U.S.$2 trillion Connected Experience opportunity.
May. 17, 2011 | Report | by Denise Lund | CO-AUTHORS: Andy Castonguay, Zeus Kerravala
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This week at Google s I/O developer conference, the company announced the general availability of two Chrome OS Laptops. Both Best Buy and Amazon will be selling the devices made by Acer and Samsung....
May 12, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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The struggles at Cisco have been well documented over the past year or so. Much of the reason for this is large number of executive departures that have left Cisco over the past few years....
May 11, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Microsoft's U.S.$8.5 billion purchase price for Skype is based on the two companies delivering synergies for both businesses and consumers. Unfortunately, that price is too high. While this acquisition will bolster Microsoft's efforts in moving enterprise unified communication into the cloud, Microsoft's struggling online consumer businesses won?t see any benefits.
May. 10, 2011 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe
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Fabrics are all the rage today with data center archtiects and solution providers. Last year, at Brocade's annual "Tech Day" analyst conference, the company unveiled its fabric strategy....
May 6, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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In this slide deck, Yankee Group examines how connected users' increasing clout is shifting the focus of power within the communications industry away from suppliers and to the masses--a revolution we call Connected Experience. The result is a perfect storm of both huge opportunities and menacing threats for all ecosystem players.
May. 4, 2011 | Report | by Gigi Wang | CO-AUTHORS: Carl Howe, Zeus Kerravala
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Research In Motion's (RIM's) long-awaited PlayBook tablet is finally here, and the battle for the enterprise market is heating up. If it doesn't appeal to both prosumers and enterprise IT buyers, the PlayBook will be relegated to niche competition. Successful corporate tablet vendors will need to find a way to tie the tablet into the larger solution set of other products to drive an end-to-end enterprise value proposition.
Apr. 15, 2011 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala | CO-AUTHORS: Denise Lund
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This week kicked off Alcatel-Lucent's Dynamic Enterprise Tour in Barcelona, Spain. The keynote was given by ALU Enterprise President, Tom Burns, and introduced the tag line "Changing the conversation"....
April 7, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Enterprises see the value in mobile UC, but like traditional UC, it is unclear if and when adoption will finally take off. It is important to remember that UC is most valuable in enabling collaboration among workers, no matter where they are. A UC strategy that integrates mobile and desktop UC is the key to adoption and use by today's connected users.
Apr. 7, 2011 | Report | by Sandra Palumbo | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala
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High-flying Aruba Networks has surfed the 802.11n wave better than any other vendor to date. At Yankee Group, we see the shift to n as one of the major contributors to our "perfect storm" scenario that will massively overhaul corporate IT....
April 6, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Ubiquitous network connectivity was only the first step in our evolution to a globally connected society. New networks, devices and cloud-sourced content are creating a Connected Experience that is changing the very nature of how we live, work and play.
Mar. 21, 2011 | Report | by Carl Howe | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala, Sheryl Kingstone, Sandra Palumbo, Denise Lund, Chris Nicoll
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This week at Enterprise Connect , networking solution provider Extreme Networks laid out its vision for the mobile world and its own role in it....
March 2, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Approximately three years ago Juniper announced its next generation data center vision and related network strategy. At the core of the strategy was something known as Stratus , Juniper s architecture for a virtual data center....
February 25, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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A year into Sprint's landmark Network Advantage outsourcing deal with Ericsson, the operator asserts that ensuring success means focusing on open communication with managed services vendors rather than contractual minutiae. As more communications service providers consider outsourcing and managed services, they can learn from the progress Sprint and Ericsson have made.
Jan. 11, 2011 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala | CO-AUTHORS: Sandra Palumbo
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The new norm is a term that has been used to describe the state of something after a major change. The term became a mainstream term after President Obama used it last November to describe how businesses and people must adjust to the current environment....
January 10, 2011 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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The Anywhere Enterprise: 2010 US Unified Communications (UC) FastView Survey is an online survey of more than 400 IT decision-makers in the U.S. It covers different UC technologies, with an emphasis on videoconferencing, cloud-based UC, mobile UC as well as SIP trunking and social media. 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. 15, 2010 | Survey | by Zeus Kerravala | CO-AUTHORS: Sandra Palumbo
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What do the iPhone and Johannes Kepler have in common? It wasn t apples. That was Isaac Newton that had the apple fall on his head. The answer is they were both historical watersheds.
November 23, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Remember the days when you could look under the hood of your car when your check engine light went on? That feels like eons ago given that many of us have cars with start buttons to literally boot up the "computer."...
November 17, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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As a kid I remember watching Christopher Columbus argue with Bugs Bunny as to whether the world was flat or round. Columbus stated "the world is round, like my head" and then Bugs hit Columbus in the head with a mallet and stated "the world is flat, like your head."...
November 17, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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This week Blue Coat and Brocade announced the industries first health monitoring solution specifically targeted to Web caching. The joint solution is designed to help communication providers manage the increasing bandwidth demands and costs due to Web 2.0, video and other multimedia traffic....
October 14, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Gig-E announcements have been front and center over past six months. Juniper was the first to announce and then Cisco and Alcatel Lucent issued press releases announcing their products. However, none of these vendors released pricing information on how much 100 Gig-E would cost....
September 29, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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On Monday morning IBM announced its intent to acquire privately held BLADE Network Technologies. Although terms of the deal were not announced the acquisition price is rumored to be in the range of $400 million....
September 28, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala discusses Xsigo's newly releases Ethernet-based virtual I/O solution.
August 31, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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While tools like blogs, tweets and social networks were once considered the exception in the workplace, they are rapidly becoming the norm. Unified communications solutions can enhance the way workers collaborate and communicate with one another, but they will need to include social media to deliver a complete collaborative experience.
Aug. 25, 2010 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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A10 Networks' business is threatened by patent infringement lawsuits from all sides.
August 24, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala explores what networking sector company should be grabbing attention from Wall Street.
July 22, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala discusses Oracle's recent x86 server announcement.
July 14, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Traditional network architectures can no longer handle the requirements of the virtual data center. Instead, enterprises need to migrate to flatter architectures based on emerging network fabric technology. Here we detail fabric strategies from Juniper, Brocade and Cisco.
Jul. 8, 2010 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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Zeus Kerravala comments on the Cisco Cius and it's relationship to the iPad.
June 30, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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WAN optimization is a broad market category that can help improve application performance, lower the cost of bandwidth and help companies avoid costly network upgrades and new data center buildouts. We profile the top vendors--including Riverbed, Blue Coat and Cisco--and gauge their market success over the next five years.
Jun. 22, 2010 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala discussed the successes of Brocade's Technology Day.
June 15, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Cloud computing is being touted as the next great computing revolution but actual, live deployments are limited. One of the biggest barriers holding cloud computing back is security....
May 28, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala comments on the recent announcement Juniper's fabric strategy and what it means for enterprise networking.
May 18, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala