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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
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala comments on the recent Aruba Networks acquisition of Azalea Networks.
May 10, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Zeus Kerravala discusses Xangati, a company entering the virtual appliance space.
March 17, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Zeus Kerravala discusses Cisco's CRS-3 announcement.
March 9, 2010 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
Executive Commentary: Cloud Computing Milestones for 2010
In this webinar, Zeus Kerravala and Agatha Poon are joined by executives from Arista, Microsoft and Sybase to explore the opportunities for cloud computing in 2010.
Feb. 26, 2010 | Live Webinar | by Zeus Kerravala | CO-AUTHORS: Agatha Poon
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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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SMBs are increasingly recognizing the value of mobile technologies. With enterprise mobile data revenue set to grow by 8.3 percent in 2010, carriers and device makers need to recognize the unique needs of SMBs and craft solutions, educational tools and support vehicles to better serve this lucrative segment.
Nov. 13, 2009 | Report | by Steve Hilton | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala
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HP has been aggressively using its ProCurve products to position itself as the clear alternative to Cisco, the 800-pound gorilla in the enterprise networking market. Despite the effort, HP's many product line holes have prevented it from becoming a true end-to-end enterprise option. With this 3Com acquisition, however, HP can marry 3Com's broad portfolio with its own brand and distribution to create a formidable No. 2 to Cisco.
Nov. 12, 2009 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala weighs in on the HP acquisition of 3Com.
November 12, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala comments on the recent acquisition of Lifesize by Logitech.
November 11, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala discusses the announcements made in lieu of Cisco's annual collaboration summit.
November 9, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Zeus Kerravala sums up the events of VoiceCon San Francisco 2009.
November 6, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Until now, enterprise adoption of cloud computing has been stymied by a dearth of best practices and platform choices. The new VMware-Cisco-EMC coalition should mitigate the risks of cloud computing, accelerating its use and creating best practices and better choices for customers.
Nov. 4, 2009 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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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Analyst Zeus Kerravala reacts following Juniper's media event today.
October 29, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analyst Zeus Kerravala discusses the recent Dell-Juniper OEM deal and its impact on the networking industry.
October 27, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Analysis of Cisco's recent acquisitions in the wireless and video spaces.
October 14, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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As enterprises tighten their belts, they're still relying on unified communications (UC) to help their organizations. But with so many
UC vendors out there, enterprises aren't sure where to place their UC dollar. This report analyzes the vendor landscape for UC and
how it's changing.
Sep. 3, 2009 | Report | by Agatha Poon | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala
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This morning compute vendor IBM and network vendor Juniper announced that IBM will OEM Juniper's enterprise routers and Ethernet switches. This announcement is on the heels of the OEM agreement IBM made with high performance networking vendor Brocade back in April of this year....
July 22, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Despite the promise of increased user productivity and advanced applications, unified communications deployments have been slow. Many corporations have made UC deployments more complex than necessary by using the same architecture that was used for traditional communication systems. Using a new architecture, one similar to the way Web applications are deployed, can significantly simplify deployments and enable companies to realize the benefits of UC faster.
May. 20, 2009 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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One of the key dependencies in evolving to Anywhere IT is being able to orchestrate virtual data center resources as they move across the corporate network. Cisco's UCS solution addresses this key dependency by linking data center compute infrastructure to network infrastructure. This promises to reshape the vendor landscape over the next five years.
Mar. 27, 2009 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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Zeus Kerravala comments on Cisco's announcement of its Unifed Computing System.
March 16, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Deciding to use SIP trunking to enhance VoIP and UC deployments should be one of the easiest decisions that CIOs make. It can dramatically cut costs and provide seamless interoperability with other network services.
Mar. 12, 2009 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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Converging technology trends such as virtualization, enterprise mobility and wireless connectivity are transforming the enterprise information communications and technology (ICT) marketplace into Anywhere IT, information technology that allows any user to work from any location over any device with the best possible experience that the device and network will allow. This transformation has mighty implications for the worker, customer, partner and IT itself.
February 2, 2009 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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Enterprise IT is on the verge of the most significant transformation in its history. The emergence of Anywhere IT will create new ways to work, create competitive differentiation for early adopters and reshape the IT vendor landscape.
Jan. 30, 2009 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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As the real and perceived effects of the global economic crisis continue to manifest themselves, Yankee Group sees 2009 as a watershed moment in the communications market. Spurred by economic necessity, consumers, enterprises and network builders will radically change spending and consumption models during the next 12 months.
Dec. 11, 2008 | Note | by David Vorhaus | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala, Ashvin Vellody, Declan Lonergan
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Yankee Group is 100% focused on Anywhere , our term for how the emergence of ubiquitous connectivity is transforming consumers, enterprises and the world we live in....
November 18, 2008 | Blog | by Zeus Kerravala
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The integration of unified communications and advances in wireless technology have created opportunities for companies to integrate mobility into their organizations.
Oct. 23, 2008 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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2007 represented a year in which unified communications brought along grandiose players such as IBM and Microsoft, addressing the large enterprise. 2008 brings unified communications to the mid-market, historically an underserved market segment.
Oct. 9, 2008 | Report | by Zeus Kerravala
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Virtualization is making robust disaster recovery easier and more affordable for SMBs.
Oct. 2, 2008 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala
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The network plays a significant role in application performance, but deploying all of the application network components can be difficult. F5's Application Ready Network strategy is a prescriptive methodology for deploying an application network technology.
Sep. 9, 2008 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala
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Brocade's acquisition of Foundry Networks puts it on a path to be the clear alternative to Cisco in the battle for the enterprise network.
Jul. 22, 2008 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala
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HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the global systems integrator EDS will enable the new HP to compete more aggressively with archrival IBM and stimulate consolidation in the global IT services market.
May. 14, 2008 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala | CO-AUTHORS: Sandra Palumbo, Mindy Blodgett
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The unified communications industry has been predicting a wave of UC-enabled applications for years, but to date user demand remains low. Vendors need to invest in the applications and seed the market to create the initial user interest.
Apr. 29, 2008 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala
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The announcements made in January foreshadow a busy 2008 in the data center networking market.
Feb. 15, 2008 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala
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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise-Large: 2007 US Economics of IP Communications Survey helps vendors and service providers gain insight into US enterprise deployment plans for IP communications infrastructure, services and applications.
Dec. 31, 2007 | Survey Executive Summary | by Zeus Kerravala
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The old bottom-up approach is no longer an efficient way to manage your network. With an increasing number of endpoints coming onto the network, a top-down approach is a more efficient way to manage all the endpoints in the network.
Oct. 22, 2007 | Report | by Vanessa Alvarez | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala
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We review Microsoft's OCS launch and its industry implications.
Oct. 22, 2007 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala
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The combined Citrix/XenSource will legitimize open source virtualization technology and create the strongest competitor yet to VMware.
Aug. 27, 2007 | Note | by George Hamilton | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala, Gary Chen
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Cisco presented its Data Center 3.0 vision at its annual Networkers user conference. As more compute resources become virtual, the network will act as the backplane connecting the various pools of resources.
Aug. 8, 2007 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala
Rise of the Rogue Employee: Enterprise Consumers Assault the IT Bastion
The Anywhere Enterprise is Yankee Group's vision of an organization whose employees, customers, assets and partners connect to applications, information and services-when and where they're needed.
Jul. 26, 2007 | Live Webinar | by Joshua Holbrook | CO-AUTHORS: Zeus Kerravala, Andrew Jaquith
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This online survey is comprised of 250 US respondents at companies with 500+ employees. Topics include deployment plans for IP communications infrastructure, services and collaborative applications; ROI and TCO benefits.
May. 23, 2007 | Survey Executive Summary | by Zeus Kerravala
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Participants' comments in Yankee Group think tanks at CIO Forum confirmed much of our research on unified communications, but a few surprising revelations were mixed in.
May. 9, 2007 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala
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Cisco realizes innovation is paramount for itself and its partners, especially if it wants to reach its goal of $50 billion in revenue. This includes embracing how consumer technologies influence the enterprise.
Apr. 6, 2007 | Note | by Zeus Kerravala