The growing complexity of IT environments in addition to increasing cloud adoption and added pressure on IT budgets has many enterprises turning to outsourced solutions. While many offer a one-stop-shop type of service for areas such as infrastructure and software, that doesn’t remove the responsibility from the enterprise to ensure the managed service provider is meeting their needs. This is particularly evident in the area of business continuity. The pressure to have a deta

In the cloud era, a new network infrastructure is necessary to support the performance and bandwidth requirements of agile and innovative applications and platforms. In order to achieve the level of programmability and visibility desired, many enterprises are turning to software-defined networking (SDN). SDN 101: SDN offers centralized visibility of the network with management optimization through a separation between the control plane and the forwarding plane. The control pl

There’s no room for a finish line or even stagnation in an enterprise pursuing digital transformation. In order to remain competitive and relevant, enterprises will keep their foot on the gas, pursuing perpetual innovation rather than fixating on an endpoint. The dangers of ignoring innovation can be seen in the glaring example of Blockbuster, which saw its entire business model go extinct under the looming shadow of Netflix. In an age where smartphones are updated every week