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How far can commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware take the data center world? For larger players, the answer is already moving to purpose-built hardware optimized for lower capital and recurring costs - but not everyone is Amazon or Google. The rest of us will have to make due, and changes to the server model are slow coming.
 Why You Need to Know: COTS hardware is especially important as SDN and NFV make commodity servers and hardware more important than ever before. Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, HP and others are all under threat as new startups embrace COTS to build faster and more powerful SBCs, security appliances, load balancers, mobile core networks. |
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Oh, how times have changed for the mighty Microsoft. The company, which debuted its new Windows 10 operating system yesterday, has been steadily shifting its business model away from its flagship operating systems and into the cloud. It's an entirely necessary migration as the corporate world transitions to an anytime, anywhere way of conducting business and BYOD elevates the status of tablets and phones over the PC.
Why You Need to Know: Scott Guthrie, who became executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group in February, took over when Satya Nadella was promoted from that position to CEO. One of Nadella's first moves after taking over the company was to make cloud infrastructure and applications a priority. |
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How safe is your data? The answer can mean the difference between growing your business and going out of business.
Why You Need to Know: The recent theft and release of celebrity photos is a reminder that even high-profile cloud security systems can still be vulnerable to breach. It's important for consumers and businesses to understand the security protocols that can keep both personal and professional information accessible yet still private. |
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Much of the talk in the IT industry has been about the need to transform the data center and the technologies that are coming to market to accelerate the transformation. However, a big question is overhanging the market. That question is, "Are enterprises are actually ready to transform their data centers?"
Why You Need to Know: This question was asked directly as part of the recent International Data Corporation (IDC) CloudTrack Survey, which queried IT and non-IT staff at director level or above in 1,109 organizations globally, including 304 in Europe (100 in the U.K. and 102 in both France and Germany). |
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While there are still as yet businesses not turning to session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking, or to enterprise session border controller (E-SBC) systems for everyday operations, the idea of doing just that is starting to gain popularity on several fronts.
Why You Need to Know: A new study from Infonetics Research, meanwhile, details how the business community is responding to SIP trunking and the like, and increasingly coming to accept this new tool as a valuable part of current operations. |
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