Yankee Group perspective: The Anywhere Network will enable users to collaborate and communicate through integrated, presence-enabled applications. Yankee Group believes this is important to IT because it will allow a user to communicate with any other user in the extended enterprise more efficiently. Our research explores how a network-based platform for application integration will give rise to a number of new communications-enabled applications.
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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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Social media interactions are dramatically changing the way businesses interact with their customers. Contact centers that can analyze, monitor and integrate real-time communications with social media to improve the overall customer experience will gain broad-reaching benefits.
Jul. 29, 2010 | Report | by Sheryl Kingstone
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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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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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One day all telecom operators will have a native IP backbone. The big question is when and how to achieve this migration technically and commercially. Accelerating to a profitable IP future is the objective of the i3 Forum , whose inner workings I witnessed up close and personal in June....
June 29, 2010 | Blog | by Camille Mendler
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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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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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SAP's U.S.$5.8 billion purchase of Sybase gives the ERP giant essential mobile and cloud capabilities, in addition to a workhorse database. The move could spell trouble for Oracle.
May. 13, 2010 | Report | by Sheryl Kingstone | CO-AUTHORS: Joshua Holbrook, Eugene Signorini
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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
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When researching my new book, ANYWHERE: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business, I was fortunate to interview more than 50 thought leaders in connectivity. Their input was invaluable and their ideas, advice and examples provide very rich context for the Anywhere vision....
February 3, 2010 | Blog | by Emily Green
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Currently, few offers for FTTO exist for SMBs. Service providers rolling out FTTH should tap into the revenue potential of the SMB market, and SMBs should leverage FTTO solutions for efficiency gains and restructuring.
Jan. 21, 2010 | Report | by Benoît Felten
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Farewell to the Noughties, a decade sandwiched between two crises: The dotcom bust and the current but sputtering - downturn. In that time, Europe accomplished much: The Euro was adopted, DSL went mainstream and telcos went NGN....
December 22, 2009 | Blog | by Camille Mendler
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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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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 3,731 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?
Dec. 14, 2009 | Survey | by Joshua Holbrook
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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 Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 3,096 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?
Dec. 11, 2009 | Survey | by Joshua Holbrook
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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 3,413 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?
Dec. 11, 2009 | Survey | by Joshua Holbrook
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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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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 2,472 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?
Nov. 20, 2009 | Survey | by Joshua Holbrook
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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 2,777 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?
Nov. 20, 2009 | Survey | by Joshua Holbrook
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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure, Transforming Applications and Empowered Employee Survey is an online survey of 1,900 IT decision-makers (including line-of-business managers) and 1,400 employees 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 factors impact your decision to deploy a technology and select a supplier? What are the changing work habits, level of mobility? What is your level of productivity at different work locations (office vs. remote vs. on-the-go)? What are the technologies critical to keep you productive? How do you use your own devices and (consumer) tools?
Nov. 17, 2009 | Survey | by Joshua Holbrook
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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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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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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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The Yankee Group Anywhere Enterprise--SMB: 2009 U.S. Transforming Infrastructure and Transforming Applications Survey is an online survey of 2,170 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?
Oct. 13, 2009 | Survey | by Steve Hilton
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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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Making a quick trip to and from Paris for the Broadband World Forum last week, I got in a nice visit with Vivek Badrinath, EVP of Networks Carriers Platforms, and Didier Duriez, SVP, International and Backbone Network, with France Telecom/Orange....
September 14, 2009 | Blog | by Emily Green
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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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Buyers of ICT services need a new approach to match suppliers to their needs. Yankee Group has created a service continuum that explains how to categorize services and triage suppliers to achieve successful business outcomes. Not least, it helps organizations to identify suppliers willing and able to progress to different types of service engagements as needs change over time.
Sep. 3, 2009 | Report | by Camille Mendler
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FMC can help organizations clear the final hurdle that's impeding the adoption of mobile applications. The seamless handoffs between WLAN and WWAN networks provide a platform for more advanced wireless applications that can transform businesses.
Aug. 25, 2009 | Report | by Joshua Holbrook
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In December 2008, Yankee Group outlined a set of 10 predictions for the communications industry that were largely influenced by the ever-worsening economic crisis. With six months of troubling economic conditions behind us and a potential recovery on the horizon, spending and consumption patterns on all fronts are defined by cautious optimism.
Jul. 28, 2009 | Report | by David Vorhaus | CO-AUTHORS: Christopher Collins
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Yankee Group continues its quest to find quality new connectivity solutions for SMBs. Based on feedback from Yankee Group?s SMB test panel, the G1 Android-OS phone is a good, affordable, multifunction tool for Google applications-centric SMB employees.
Jul. 22, 2009 | Report | by Steve Hilton
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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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Although the complexity of service integration presents a daunting challenge for large corporations to make a great leap forward, the hosted unified communications approach can serve as a simple migration path for corporate businesses to add new unified communication applications over time.
Jul. 20, 2009 | Report | by Agatha Poon
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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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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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FMC initiatives have failed. Enterprises demonstrate only tepid interest in the technology. The time has come to abandon the failed marketing and sales strategy of FMC, and take a page from the unified communications playbook.
Apr. 7, 2009 | Report | by Joshua Holbrook