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Analyst Opinions
International Wholesale Carriers – New Business Models & Growth Drivers in the Digital Transformation Era
"International Wholesale Carriers - New Business Models & Growth Drivers in the Digital Transformation Era", a thematic research report by GlobalData, examines the changing dynamics, the new growth drivers and business models of the global international wholesale industry. It lays out, for international carriers, the critical considerations and strategic options for taking the journey to the wholesaler of the future, from the business model drivers to the necessary portolio evolution requirements. Data and insights are derived through a mix of...
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Analyst Opinions
Cloud Enablement: Market Dynamics and Opportunities
"Cloud Enablement: Market Dynamics and Opportunities", a new Global Outlook Report by GlobalData, provides an executive-level overview with qualitative insights and analysis of cloud enablement technology and services market trends and strategies. Cloud enablement refers to the use of IT infrastructure and/or services in order to leverage a flexible, scalable and on-demand IT environment. Cloud enablement has emerged as the dominant model for delivering and maintaining enterprise IT resources - including hardware, software, platforms and app development tools. It provides...
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Analyst Opinions
Cloud Services in Asia Pacific: Global Consolidation and Evolving Provider Specialization
Global and regional cloud services will continue to evolve in terms of both technology development and ongoing progress in go-to-market strategies and business models. Cloud services are reaching a new stage, as mainstream enterprises begin to consider longer-term strategies and operationally important workloads for on-demand environments. Providers are still struggling with how to grow revenues successfully in cloud. For some, this means refocusing their efforts on specific types customers (e.g. particular verticals), and retrenching to build integrated solutions that meet...
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Analyst Opinions
SDN/NFV technologies: Innovative use cases and operator strategies
The end goal for a fully software-driven and virtualized network is clear: A dynamic, on-demand global fabric where each application can order, set up and tear down services, performance and features as they are needed through automated API function calls. But the correct steps from the current state to this future end state are anything but clear. It may seem that operators based in Asia and North America have pioneered SDN/NFV, and that European operators (with notable exceptions such as...
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Thematic Analysis
Urban Defense Operations (Urban Warfare) – Thematic Research
This report focuses on Urban Operations, which are important for military planners and will be of extreme importance due to the increasing urbanization and the potential of a near-peer confrontation between major powers, in densely populated areas of the world. Urban Operations thematic research offers a detailed analysis of how it affects force structures, procurement and operational concepts. The research includes insightful industry analysis of the Urban Operations and key use cases highlighting how militaries and constabulary forces around the...
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Analyst Opinions
International Wholesale – Transition to Growth: Strategies, Portfolio of Services, Operational Considerations, and Case Studies
International Wholesale - Transition to Growth: Strategies, Portfolio of Services, Operational Considerations, and Case Studies, a Global Outlook Report by GlobalData, examines the changing dynamics, the new growth drivers, and business models of the global international wholesale industry. It lays out for international carriers the critical considerations and strategic options for taking the journey to the wholesaler of the future, from the business model drivers to the necessary portfolio evolution and digital transformation requirements. The “International Wholesale - Transition to...
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Thematic Analysis
Low-Intensity Warfare – Thematic Research
The term low-intensity warfare (LIW) has been around for decades and had a variety of names, including grey zone warfare, measures short of war, and hybrid warfare. LIW covers a wide range of activities among states, from peaceful competition to conflicts below full-scale warfare. LIWs can also include activities by non-state actors (e.g. criminal or terrorist groups) which can have a disruptive impact on citizen’s daily lives, or a state’s ability to maintain security. Full-scale warfare disrupts the whole of...
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Thematic Analysis
Software Defined Networks – Thematic Research
The explosion of available bandwidth, the emergence of cloud computing, and dramatic year-on-year improvements in the price-to-performance ratios for commodity hardware have all combined to ensure that technology functionality previously only achievable using specialist hardware can now be delivered using a combination of general-purpose computing hardware and software.