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Digital Service Providers (DSPs) provide the technologies and services that bring digital content and services to consumer and enterprise end users. Ovum forecasts that such a key role will be worth $4.8 trillion globally by 2025.
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Consumer and Entertainment Services
By Mariana Zamoszczyk 17 Sep 2019
A roundup of key events in the smart home market in August 2019.
Topic Smart home
Enterprise Decision Maker
By Maxine Holt 17 Sep 2019
The stark reality is that security incidents and breaches in operational technology (OT) environments are on the rise and, as such, IT and OT security worlds are colliding.
Topic Cybersecurity Security
Cybersecurity Accelerator
By Andrew Milroy 16 Sep 2019
A new study by Ovum reveals that service providers are developing distributed clouds ahead of 5G deployments and security must keep up.
Topic Cybersecurity 5G IoT
Enterprise Decision Maker
By Eric Parizo 12 Sep 2019
Palo Alto's strategy is to build the industry's biggest enterprise security toolbox. As such, it needs as many quality tools as it can find to fill that toolbox. One it didn't have was IoT security, which drove its acquisition of startup Zingbox.
Topic Cybersecurity Security IoT
Consumer and Entertainment Services
By Rob Gallagher 12 Sep 2019
Apple and Sky are just a couple of the big names promising to deliver this simple concept: a single place to find, discover, and watch all the TV and video you could ever want or need. How hard could it be?
Topic Video
Enterprise Services, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Adam Holtby 11 Sep 2019
ServiceNow has released the latest version of its Now Platform – New York. The release marks a major milestone for ServiceNow, especially in how new platform functionality enhances capabilities for the mobile workforce.
Service Provider Technology, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Kris Szaniawski 11 Sep 2019
Major telecoms vendors Ericsson, Huawei, and Nokia have invested heavily in R&D over the past few years, much of it driven by 5G; but there are indications that this R&D spend may become more diverse and decentralized.
Enterprise Services, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Mike Sapien 09 Sep 2019
In September 2019, Ovum attended the Comcast Business Analyst Conference. As Comcast Business continues to invest and show progress in its B2B portfolio, it continues to make progress in its efforts in B2B and enterprise markets in the US.
Enterprise Decision Maker
By Cassandra Mooshian 03 Sep 2019
On its FY2Q20 earnings call on August 22, 2019, VMware announced its 10th and 11th acquisitions of the past 12 months whereby the company will spend $2.7bn to acquire Pivotal and $2.1bn for Carbon Black. Both acquisitions are expected to close by the end of the year.
Enterprise Services, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Brian Washburn 03 Sep 2019
In August 2019, the industry finally achieved a consensus definition and common terms for software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). Industry organization MEF spearheaded the effort with a cross industry group of vendors, integrators, and network operators.
Consumer and Entertainment Services
By Daniel Gleeson 03 Sep 2019
The BBC plans to launch an AI assistant, tentatively named "Beeb." The BBC is wisely not attempting to compete with Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, or Google Assistant, and will keep a very tight focus for its product.
Topic AI
Cybersecurity Accelerator
By Eric Parizo 03 Sep 2019
The data is the platform. Or, at least, it soon will be. Enterprise cybersecurity vendors are building solution sets that competitively differentiate by way of massive, customer-driven, cybersecurity telemetry datasets.
IT, Enterprise Services, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Mila D'Antonio 30 Aug 2019
Cisco's intention to acquire CloudCherry will uniquely position it at the center of the newly emerging customer journey management category.
Topic Cloud
IT, Enterprise Decision Maker
By Eric Parizo 29 Aug 2019
In enterprise cybersecurity, Cisco has become one of the industry's strongest proponents for open architectures, touting open APIs, best-of-breed integration, vendor partnerships, and open source stewardship.
Topic Cybersecurity
Consumer and Entertainment Services
By Ed Barton 29 Aug 2019
Disney+ is launching at roughly the same time as two other notable streaming services: HBO MAX and Apple TV+, all of which are motivated by the impact Netflix. Ovum believes that Disney's go-to-market strategy is currently the most compelling.
Topic Video
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