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Reconsidering TCS’ SWOT assessment: M&A comes alive
In November our detailed report on Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) performance and strategy included a SWOT slide with the following item in the Threat category: “Competitors are building assets and scale quickly through acquisitions; TCS retains a conservative M&A stance.” Just a couple of weeks into 2019, we’re seeing a change from the company: a […]
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January 23: IoT is getting a lot easier
While it is too early to say that the Internet of Things (IoT) market is fully mature, it is maturing. The first three years of the IoT era were filled with extravagant claims, inadequate products and services, and a chaotic partner ecosystem. Starting in 2018 and accelerating throughout 2019 and 2020, more customers will come […]
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Intel: Optimizing its scale advantage for Business of One flexibility
TBR perspective Usually sound business execution of world-class engineering, coupled with world-class monolithic manufacturing, has made Intel a dominant force around which technology businesses have orbited for decades. Intel’s dominance has been baked in the PC and server form factors, while ever smaller price points and form factors have shifted end-customer purchase criteria from computational […]
CSPs accelerate NFV and SDN investments ahead of the 5G era
Communication service providers (CSPs) are ramping up NFV- and SDN-related investments to realize greater cost savings and efficiencies, according to Technology Business Research Inc.’s (TBR) 2H18 Telecom Software Mediated Networks (NFV/SDN) Customer Adoption Study. This increase in investment will be driven by two underlying factors: CSPs under pressure to realize cost savings as their connectivity […]
5G-readiness spend and migration to new network architectures spur the TIS market to growth in 3Q18
According to Technology Business Research, Inc.’s (TBR) 3Q18 Telecom Infrastructure Services (TIS) Benchmark, the TIS market grew as communication service provider (CSP) investment in areas tied to 5G-readiness increased. CSPs are rearchitecting their networks leveraging NFV, SDN and the cloud as well as implementing new business models, which requires growing spend across a broad range […]
U.S. 5G investment supports non-China-based vendors as Huawei and ZTE face increasing headwinds
Nokia and Huawei are well-positioned to win as operators overhaul architectures in the 5G era, but most of the spend to date is on 5G radios, with Ericsson at an advantage due to market perception of its software-upgradeable Ericsson Radio System RAN. The network must ultimately be overhauled to fully realize 5G’s potential, but it […]
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Predictions for #2019, from TBR's Data Center team: As compute form factors proliferate, there has been a shift in the type of skills IT departments require. Manual taskwork becomes automated. Technical skills have to incorporate more software functionality to operate the various management control planes that can monitor, manage and dynamically provision an enterprise #IT instance. Physical IT becomes less relevant based on abstraction, which allows for enterprise IT to reduce the number of primary suppliers. The margin protection for #infrastructure vendors will come from the power and simplicity of the abstraction layer, be it PaaS or management, orchestration and provisioning. Continue reading: https://bit.ly/2DidSkh #datacenter
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Predictions for #2019, from TBR's Public Sector team: As technology moves forward at breakneck pace, #government policy and regulations will struggle to keep up. Law as the codification of an agreed-to set of ethical standards remains woefully behind as society struggles with the implications of technology development on myriad issues, from a citizen’s right to privacy to warfighting. In 2019 familiar market trends such as transformative M&A in the #IT industry broadly and in the federal services market specifically will continue to reshape the market and create new disruptions. However, we believe that the continued ethical debate around emerging technologies, as much as who holds the innovative IP around those technologies, will help shape the competitive landscape in the years ahead. Continue reading: https://bit.ly/2MeKmP3 #public sector
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Predictions for #2019, from TBR's Services team: Underlying all of our assessments, we are developing a new appreciation for the criticality of data. Beyond the cliché that every company is a data company or that data is the new oil, we have been seeing throughout 2018 the way IT #services vendors and consultancies have begun investing increasingly in #data management, cleansing and protection, all with the assumption that #analytics, #automation, #artificialintelligence and every other emerging technology starts with and relies on clean and useful data. Smarter business decisions do not come from bad data, no matter how good the algorithm or analytics package. For 2019, this means data access becomes an opportunity to extend to all #ITservices, up to and including digital transformation, the same trust that comes with an audit or a multiyear outsourcing engagement. Imagine a #consultancy working with unfettered access to every data element across a client’s #enterprise. Continue reading: https://bit.ly/2T0QcX2
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Predictions for #2019, from TBR's Cloud & Software team: Escalating urgency will amplify both the volume and riskiness of #acquisitions, #customer decision making will continue to evolve to focus more on outcomes than delivery methods, and applied #AI capabilities will fuel 22% of #SaaS adoption. Continue reading: https://bit.ly/2MdIMNy #cloud #software
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IT budgets are shifting in #hyperconverged infrastructure's favor. For more information, contact Stephanie Long. #datacenter #HCI #IT
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