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• Designing infrastructure for the edge
  Maggie Shillington | August 08, 2018
  Edge has become an exciting buzzword for data center infrastructure manufacturers. However, for suppliers edge deployments the power required and the location of deployment are the most important consideration for product design, not solely if it is an edge deployment or a not. Below is a plotting of edge applications and solutions based on those factors.
• Industry consolidation continues: Infinera to acquire Coriant
  Heidi Adams | July 30, 2018
  On 23 July 2018, Infinera announced its intent to acquire networking solutions vendor Coriant for $430M in cash and stock. In an increasingly competitive market with escalating R&D costs, scale is a viable strategic path forward for sustaining the investment levels required to deliver differentiated and compelling products and solutions. With the acquisition, Infinera gains significant scale, almost doubling in size in revenue, R&D, investment, and employees. Coriant also brings a needed element of “secret sauce” to Infinera—its expertise in IP routing and multi-layer SDN control and orchestration—which will be important moving forward for addressing applications including metro transport for cable/MSO fiber deep and distributed access architectures (DAA), 5G mobile transport, and data center interconnect (DCI). The combined companies also stand to benefit from stronger purchasing power, economies of scale, and consolidation of common functions. Infinera expects the transaction to close in Q3 2018. Clients, please log in to view the full content.
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• Cavium (now Marvell) is the next hope for ARM-based CPUs in the data center
  Vladimir Galabov | July 17, 2018
  In 2017, Cavium, Qualcomm, and Applied Micro were all sampling ARM-based SoCs targeted at data center servers. With Applied Micro spinning off its server CPU business to newly founded Ampere Computing and Qualcomm demonstrating no tangible design wins after announcing commercial availability for its Centriq SoC in November 2017, hopes for success of an ARM-based CPU ecosystem moved to Cavium, and in 2017 Cavium kept the design wins and partnership announcements coming. In January, Atos announced Cavium’s ThunderX2 will power its HPC for the EU-funded Mont Blanc project. In March, Cavium announced a partnership with Microsoft and in November revealed designs for a Cavium-powered Project Olympus OCP server. In May, Gigabyte, Ingrasys, and Inventec announced and subsequently launched new servers based on ThunderX2. In June, Penguin announced its Open Compute server lineup will feature a ThunderX2 sku. Clients, please log in to view the full content.
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• Optical Network Hardware Vendor Scorecard - 2018
  Heidi Adams | July 12, 2018
  The Optical Network Hardware Vendor Scorecard evaluates the top optical hardware vendors on criteria using actual data and metrics, including direct feedback from buyers, vendor market share, market share momentum, financials, brand recognition, reputation for innovation, and other benchmarks.
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• Data Infrastructure Market Microeconomics Report - 2018
  Maggie Shillington | June 05, 2018
  This report presents the macroeconomic forces affecting the data center infrastructure market. It highlights the current economic outlook, the percent of the population with access to the Internet, and forecasted IT spend for several regions. It also includes the outlook for the data center infrastructure market in each region.
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• Collaborative Meeting Services Market Report - Regional - 2018
  Matthias Machowinski, Prachi Nema | April 05, 2018
  The Collaborative Meeting Services Market Report provides accurate data and analyses—including market size, vendor market share, forecasts, and market trends—to help clients make better business decisions in the video and web conferencing market.
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• Optical Network Hardware Market Tracker - Regional, China, Japan, India
  Heidi Adams | August 16, 2018
  This market tracker provides accurate data and analyses—including market size, vendor market share, forecasts, and market trends—to help clients make better business decisions in the optical network hardware market.
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• NFV Hardware, Software & Services Market Tracker - Regional
  Jeff Wilson, Diane Myers, Michael Howard, Stéphane Téral | August 09, 2018
  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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• IT Racks & Enclosures Market Tracker
  Liz Cruz, Maggie Shillington | July 31, 2018
  IHS Markit is a leading provider of qualitative and quantitative analysis of the IT rack and enclosure market. This tracker analyzes the industry by type of product, dimension, color, geographic region, application, vertical market, and distribution channel.
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• Data Center Compute Analyst Conference Call
  Clifford Grossner, Vladimir Galabov | June 18, 2018
  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
  June 18, 2018
  Quarterly scheduled briefings with the analysts on research highlights from all aspects of the data center network market.
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• Optical Networks Analyst Conference Call
  Heidi Adams | June 18, 2018
  Quarterly scheduled briefings with the analysts on research highlights from all aspects of the optical networks market.
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• 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.
• Data Center and Enterprise In-use for SDN Market Up More Than 80 Percent From a Year Ago, IHS Says
  Clifford Grossner | May 19, 2016
  The global data center and enterprise software‑defined networking (SDN) market—including in-use for SDN Ethernet switches, SDN controllers, software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) appliances and control and management—rose 82 percent in 2015 from the prior year, reaching $1.4 billion, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight.

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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.