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• How Netcracker became the first business cloud nutcracker
  Stéphane Téral, Michael Howard, Clifford Grossner, Stelyana Baleva | January 17, 2019
  Already known for the innovative capabilities that propelled its cloud and SDN/NFV ascension over the past decade, Netcracker, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, never rests on its laurels and keeps pushing the envelope. This time around, though, the bar was lifted very high. Netcracker has developed and launched a new cloud-based service that essentially includes everything the company has in its OSS/BSS product and services offering. Named Business Cloud, the platform leverages Netcracker’s cloud-based SDN/NFV and IT portfolio—from VNFs to orchestration, OSS, BSS, portals, and a digital marketplace—and offers the complete set as a service to whoever needs to build a cloud infrastructure to turn up new digital services. Clients, please log in to view the full content.
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• Inspur aspires to be the DC server market share leader
  January 15, 2019
  In the mid-2000s, Inspur (formerly Langchao) started a multi-year transformation from small software and outsourcing company to server vendor. Microsoft was an early investor, paying $25M for an undisclosed share of the company in 2005. By 2016, Inspur had garnered 5% of global server shipments, growing that to 8% in 2017 and 9% in 2018 (based on 1Q–3Q 2018), showing ambitions to grow in North America. However, even after opening a factory in California in 2015, sales in North America have remained modest with Inspur shipping less than 1% of 2016 and 2017 North American servers. Clients, please log in to view the full content.
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• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018: Where boring is the new sign of success
  Devan Adams | January 04, 2019
  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 was held in Seattle, Washington, from 10 to 13 December. Roughly 8K contributors, users, and partners from around the world attended the event. The keynotes featured presentations from Liz Rice, Co-Chair at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF); Wendy Cartee, Senior Director at VMware; Chris Aniszczyk, VP/COO at CNCF; Lew Tucker, VP/CTO Cloud Computing at Cisco; Arun Gupta, Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS); Jason McGee, VP/CTO at IBM Cloud; and several others. There were approximately 180 informational and training sessions primarily focused on containers and the development of other open-source projects for core and edge cloud networks; the event had 187 sponsors this year, compared to 40 during its inaugural year in 2016. Clients, please log in to view the full content.
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• Data Center Power Distribution Report - 2019
  Maggie Shillington | December 28, 2018
  This is the third edition of the IHS Markit report on the data center power distribution hardware market. IHS Markit has been publishing market statistics on the data center infrastructure market for over a decade.
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• Carrier SDN Strategies Service Provider Survey - 2018
  Michael Howard | December 20, 2018
  The Carrier SDN Strategies Service Provider Survey explores service provider plans and strategies for evaluating and deploying software-defined networks (SDNs).
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• SDN & NFV Vendor Leadership Service Provider Survey - 2018
  Michael Howard | December 18, 2018
  The SDN & NFV Vendor Leadership Service Provider Survey provides service provider ratings of software-defined networks (SDNs) and network functions virtualization (NFV) vendors.
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• Data Center Storage Equipment Market Tracker
  Dennis Hahn, Matthias Machowinski | January 17, 2019
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• NFV Hardware, Software & Services Market Tracker - Regional
  Jeff Wilson, Diane Myers, Michael Howard, Stéphane Téral | January 11, 2019
  This Market Tracker provides accurate data and analyses—including market size, forecasts, and market trends—to help clients make better business decisions in the NFV hardware, software, and services market.
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• uCPE Hardware Market Tracker - Regional
  Michael Howard | January 10, 2019
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• Data Center Compute Analyst Conference Call
  Clifford Grossner, Vladimir Galabov | January 04, 2019
  Quarterly live conference call and presentation hosted by the lead analyst for all subscribers to provide highlights from all products in this Intelligence Service, including forecasts, surveys, scorecards and insights.
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• Data Center Networks Analyst Conference Call
  January 04, 2019
  Quarterly scheduled briefings with the analysts on research highlights from all aspects of the data center network market.
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• SDN & NFV Analyst Conference Call
  January 04, 2019
  Semi-annually scheduled briefings with the analysts on research highlights from all aspects of the SDN and NFV markets.
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• Data Center Interconnect Is Fastest-growing Application for Optical Networking, IHS Markit Survey Finds
  Heidi Adams | October 23, 2018
  A significant driver for innovation in the optical market, data center interconnect (DCI) is the fastest-growing application for optical networking equipment, according to a new study from business information provider IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO). Eighty-six percent of service providers polled for the Optical Network Applications Survey have plans to support DCI applications in their networks.
• Cloud, IoT and Security Are Driving Enterprise WiFi Investments, IHS Markit Says
  Matthias Machowinski | July 27, 2017
  IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today released findings from its WLAN Strategies North American enterprise survey, which takes an in-depth look at the access networks of medium-to-large companies and their plans for delivering wireless connectivity in the workplace to new types of devices.
• IHS Markit Names Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft ‘Leaders’ in Cloud Services Scorecard
  Clifford Grossner | August 01, 2016
  IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today released excerpts from its new Cloud IT Infrastructure Service Provider Scorecard, which profiles and analyzes the top seven revenue producers for cloud IT infrastructure services: Amazon (AWS), CenturyLink, Equinix, Google, IBM, Microsoft (Azure) and Rackspace.

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  Bill Morelli
  Executive Director, Enterprise & IT
  Mr. Bill Morelli is the executive responsible for the Enterprise & IT research practice within the technology group at IHS Markit. He leads the team of analysts covering Transformative Technologies, including AI, cloud & virtualization, and IoT among others.
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  Clifford Grossner
  Senior Research Director – Cloud & Virtualization, IHS Markit
  Dr. Cliff Grossner is a senior research director responsible for data center compute and networking, cloud services and SDN research at IHS Markit. He has more than 25 years of telecommunications industry experience encompassing scientific research, market analysis, corporate and product strategy, product management and marketing.
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  Liz Cruz
  Associate Director, Data Centers, Cloud & IT Infrastructure
  Liz is an associate director in the IHS Markit Cloud and Data Center Research Practice and manages syndicated and custom market research reports covering UPS hardware and service, rack power distribution units, IT racks and enclosures, containerized and modular data centers and colocation services.