Hybrid IT and Cloud-Enabled Technologies Disrupt Traditional IT Procurement

Hybrid IT is fast becoming the new normal across organizations in Asia-Pacific. With the increasing utilization of data centers and cloud services, companies have gradually updated or upgraded their existing IT systems. This has resulted in a hybrid IT environment. Besides helping enterprises to drive digital disruption, the hybrid IT environment is also enhancing the customer experience... By IT Next

Enhancement of Customer Experience drives Big Data Strategy

The key elements of the study focused on the complexities and challenges organizations are facing with their Big Data infrastructure and environment.  Respondents report that they are already seeing, or anticipating, benefits of increased revenue (19 percent), improved competitive positioning (14 percent), ability to provide new products or services (13 percent), and more effective... By

Significant Increase in DDoS Attack Activity

Q1 2015 set a new record for the number of DDoS attacks observed across the PLX routed network--a jump of more than 35 percent over the last quarter, says the report. Not only has the volume of attacks increased, the profile has also changed. Last year, high bandwidth and short duration attacks were the norm. But in Q1 2015, the typical DDoS attack was less than 10 gigabits per second (Gbps),... By IT Next

Top Trends Driving the Future of Sales

Sales has changed dramatically over the last few years. The rise of mobile and social technologies have made customers more empowered and knowledgeable than ever before. According to the corporate advisory firm CEB, customers are already 57 percent through the buying cycle before even engaging with a salesperson. When customers do engage seriously with a brand, the selling cycle is... By IT NEXT

Microsoft Closes in on Cisco in the Collaboration Market

New Q1 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Microsoft has narrowed the gap with collaboration market leader Cisco, thanks to it widening its lead in hosted/cloud solutions and presenting a strong challenge in premise-based solutions. Cisco remains ahead in the total market accounting for over 14% share of worldwide revenues in the quarter, having grown by 6% year on year. Avaya maintains... By IT NEXT

Digital Disruption to Displace 40% of Industry Incumbents by 2020

A new report by Global Center for Digital Business Transformation (DBT Center) predicts that digital disruption will displace approximately 40 percent of incumbent companies in each of the 12 industries studied for the report, within the next five years. Despite digital disruption's potential to overturn incumbents and reshape markets, the survey indicated 45 percent of companies do... By IT NEXT

OpenDaylight Announces Third Release of Open SDN Standards

The OpenDaylight Project (http://www.opendaylight.org/), a community-led and industry-supported open source platform to advance Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), has announced that OpenDaylight Lithium (http://www.opendaylight.org/lithium), is now available. "End users have already deployed OpenDaylight for a wide variety of use cases from NFV,... By IT NEXT

AWS to Set Up Infrastructure in India

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it will open an AWS infrastructure region in India for its cloud computing platform in 2016.  "Tens of thousands of customers in India are using AWS from one of AWS's eleven global infrastructure regions outside of India. Several of these customers, along with many prospective new customers, have asked us to locate infrastructure in India so they... By IT NEXT

Arbor Secures Three New Patents for DDoS Detection & Mitigation

Arbor Networks has registered three new patents for different aspects of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack detection and mitigation. Arbor now has 25 patents focused on DDoS defense. Arbor Networks was founded in year 2000, when the technology developed by the Lighthouse Project at theUniversity of Michigan was commercialized. The new patents cover the following areas:... By IT NEXT

10 Things CIOs Need to Know About Agile Development

CIOs are under pressure to support fast-evolving digital business scenarios but are finding traditional project and development methods unsuitable. Consequently, they are turning to agile development methodologies to speed up projects.  However, Gartner's director of research, Nathan Wilson, cautions that value will be delivered only if the CIO and the entire IT management team are... By IT NEXT

India Poised to Become World's Second Largest Smartphone Market

Latest findings from research firm Strategy Analytics indicates that global smartphone sales will grow from 1.5 billion units in 2015 to a record 1.7 billion by 2017.  China, India and United Stateswill be the major drivers of this. Strategy Analytics also says India will soon overtake the United States to become the world's second largest smartphone... By IT NEXT

New Heuristic Model Facilitates Smart Security Investments

An report by economic and cybersecurity experts at RAND has found that CISOs often face a chaotic and confusing landscape when deciding the most efficient and cost-effective way to manage the risks posed by security to their business. Most troubling, the research indicates that many companies are spending increasing amounts on cybersecurity tools, but are not confident that these investments are... By IT NEXT