Research Papers

Cybersecurity has become a war of attrition. Companies are facing new threats every day, and it is impossible to keep up with the frequency and volume of vulnerabilities that profoundly impact a company’s IT hygiene posture. Bad actors and nation-states have created a cottage industry for hackers/crackers who indiscriminately attack foreign networks and their critical infrastructure. …

rESEARCH PAPER: Cyberwarfare Requires Speed, Adaptability and Visibility To Win Read More »

Earlier this year, Moor Insights & Strategy created a survey instrument intended to measure consumer perceptions about online security, privacy, and parental controls in the smart home. The survey instrument was created for Calix, a global provider of cloud and software platforms, systems, and services that deliver unified access networks and smart premises systems. Calix …

RESEARCH PAPER: Security And Privacy Controls: An Unequivocal Requirement In Today’s Smart Home Read More »

Led by enterprise use cases, the VR market is resurging with a new generation of devices equipped with innovative features enabled by eye tracking and foveated rendering (FR). These technologies first appeared in commercial headsets in mid-2019, and while they are relatively new, they promise to deliver significant improvements in performance and the generation of …

RESEARCH PAPER: Tobii Benchmark Testing Validates The Benefits Of Dynamic Foveated Rendering Read More »

The need to support robust networking and new application services places incredible demands on today’s IT staffing. An inherently siloed legacy infrastructure with inconsistent hardware and software platforms spanning local and wide area networks requires excessive manual network operations. This reduces the network operator’s ability to manage device provisioning and ongoing operations. As a result, teams are unnecessarily taxed …

RESEARCH PAPER: Aruba Edge Services Platform Read More »

The United States government views the deployment of 5G networking as a strategic initiative that will unlock transformative enterprise services. The throughput and latency of 5G — a vast improvement over current 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology — will disrupt the market and accelerate digital transformation. Given the potential positive economic impact of 5G on …

RESEARCH PAPER: Inseego: 5G Born In The U.S.A. Read More »

Enterprises seek the ability to react quickly to business demands in the digital world. In response, IT professionals today face daunting tasks in deploying and managing networking infrastructure given resource and consumption constraints. Also, connectivity is no longer relegated to the confines of office walls or the traditional centralized datacenter. Rather, businesses require connectivity to …

RESEARCH PAPER: Cisco Systems Delivers Multi-Domain, Modern Networking Infrastructure Read More »

Mobile networks utilizing cellular technology play a pivotal role in the overall global communications fabric. Many, if not most, countries consider 4G LTE and 5G security vital to their overall national security due to the potential disruption of energy grids, transportation systems, financial markets, and borders. High-profile outages and attacks, in addition to the recent …

RESEARCH PAPER: A10 Networks Delivers Comprehensive 5G Security Read More »

The deployment of 5G will revolutionize fixed and mobile services with its ultra-low latency, blazing-fast throughput, and ability to support a massive number of connected devices. In addition to greater speed and responsiveness, 5G will redefine connectivity and the subscriber experience by enabling a new era of network-based intelligence, virtualization, and computational power at the …

RESEARCH PAPER: AT&T’s Legacy Of Innovation Read More »

In today’s world, business intelligence is the fuel that drives digital transformation. Business intelligence starts with raw data, generated at “the edge” by devices and sensors that make up the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The exponential growth of IoT and IIoT has created a corresponding …

RESEARCH PAPER: Cybersecurity In The Edge Era – A Practitioner’s Guide Read More »

Today many businesses recognize the importance of ecologically sustainable operating practices and either have a sustainability strategy in place or plan to adopt one in the near future. The terms reuse, recycle and remanufacture are likely some of the first words that come to mind when people think “sustainability.” Less familiar is the broader concept of the …

RESEARCH PAPER: Digital Transformation And The Circular Economy Read More »

The modern enterprise lives in a multi-cloud world, where delivery of infrastructure resources and IT services is expected in real time. Infrastructure and operations teams must, in turn, respond to the needs of the business rapidly. The result, all too often, is infrastructure complexity and “sprawl” – far too many platforms, and management tools that …

RESEARCH PAPER: Building A Better Cloud Begins With Better Infrastructure Read More »

A number of challenges must be overcome in order to deliver Wi-Fi connectivity in sporting venues. Material construction consisting of steel and concrete tends to impede wireless propagation. The sheer number of connected devices also puts immense pressure on network performance, given the tendency for fans to utilize streaming services as well as to upload …

RESEARCH PAPER: Extreme Networks Powers The College Fan Experience And Beyond Read More »

Simplicity is valued in nearly every area of enterprise IT but not often easy to deliver effectively. The past decade has seen the rise of a new kind of IT solution from which compute, storage and networking can be simplified into a single, easy-to-use system, and they can be delivered with enterprise-class scalability and reliability, …

RESEARCH PAPER: Scale Computing HC3: A Qualitative Evaluation Read More »

In the world of computing, low-power performance is increasingly important. There are a multitude of trends driving this shift, which likely began in mobile but now affects all types of computing across the ecosystem. You can download the paper by clicking on the logo below: Table Of Contents Executive Summary Processing That Matches Workloads Intel …

RESEARCH PAPER: Solving The Need For High-Performance, Low-Power Computing Read More »

Containers provide a nearly unparalleled ability to efficiently deploy and manage application workloads and give enterprises the tools required to quickly, safely and easily deploy workloads across multi-site, multi-cloud infrastructure. Built on a foundation of simplicity, isolation and efficient resource sharing, they have become an indispensable tool for IT administrators and DevOps practitioners. You can …

RESEARCH PAPER: Storage For Container Deployments Read More »

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen 10 and HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen 10 servers in 2017, based on the 1st Generation AMD EPYC processor, it marked the return of choice to the datacenter. IT organizations that sought to deliver performant platforms securely and lower total cost of ownership had a …

RESEARCH PAPER: Scaling The Needs Of Enterprise With HPE ProLiant Read More »

In 1991, noted technology journalist Walt Mossberg opened his first technology column for the Wall Street Journal with these words: “Personal computers are just too hard to use, and it isn’t your fault.”  Personal computer technology has become easier to use in many respects during the past 30 years, but the same cannot be said about the …

RESEARCH PAPER: Resideo Bets On The “Genuine” Smart Home Read More »