Archive for 'Cloud'

Seeing the Forest through the Trees: The Transparency of Carrier Networks and the Cloud

By Christopher Cullan, Product Marketing Manager, InfoVista According to analyst firm Infonetics Research, Carrier Ethernet spending will grow to approximately $42.4 billion in 2016, as compared to $31.7 billion in 2011 – that’s a 34 percent hike in just five years! However, coupled with this rapid growth is wide variation among infrastructure and mechanisms used [...]

Cisco Live! Americas: Evolution to Cloud Services

By Peter Christensen, Product Marketing Manager, APM, InfoVista The evolution to the cloud is happening and accelerating. However, enterprise IT organizations have concerns about moving to cloud-based services. They understand the benefits of cloud and many have stated that they will implement some form of the cloud. Unfortunately, there are still questions being raised around reliability, [...]

Management World Americas: 3 ‘Musts’ for Fueling Service Providers’ Performance

By Marc Lippe, Director, Worldwide Field and Corporate Marketing, InfoVista Yesterday marked the official kick-off of TM Forum’s Management World Americas, taking place November 8-10 in Orlando, Florida. This year’s theme is about fueling innovation and new revenues and answering the question: “How can service providers effectively deliver and assure profitable, new offerings?”

Will Cloud-based Software Applications Bolster the Role of Application-Aware VPNs?

By Nav Chander, Research Manager, Business Network Services, IDC It’s been about a decade since IP VPNs were introduced by CSPs as the next wave of WAN networking services to connect enterprise branch office, regional and headquarter sites. At that time, CSPs also offered alternative WAN services such as Frame Relay and ATM. IP VPNs [...]

Smart Clouds Require Smart Networks: Intelligent IaaS through Visibility

By Melanie Posey, Research Vice President for IDC‘s Hosting Infrastructure and Managed Network Services The frenzied excitement around cloud as the “next big thing” in the IT industry is beginning to subside as businesses move from testing the waters, with a couple of applications and use cases, to moving large-scale processing and mission-critical jobs to the [...]