In my most recent blog post, I talked about the difficulty SD-WAN vendors have in finding their voice and clearly differentiating their value. My point was if Wendy’s, Burger King and McDonald’s could figure out how to differentiate their burgers and fries, we should be […]
John Vincenzo
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If Wendy’s, Burger King and McDonald’s can find a way to make it clear how they are different despite each offering hamburgers and french fries, why is it, five years into the hottest networking disruption in decades, companies are having so much trouble differentiating their […]
The 80s are hot again. Even today’s younger generation has an appreciation for 80s music, 80s clothes and 80s style. Personally, I can’t blame them since I’m a product of the 80s. So, when we started to put our heads together to come up with […]
There’s been a lot of numbers passed around when it comes to software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs). IDC predicts the market will reach $6 billion by 2020. Gartner suggests 30 percent of enterprises will have deployed an SD-WAN by 2019. The SD-WAN vendor landscape is […]
Arguably the most influential documents in IT are the revered Magic Quadrants from Gartner. Vendors and end-users alike await the publication of the various MQs to see who are the Leaders, the Challengers, the Niche players and the Visionaries in the respective industries. We all […]
When new markets evolve and categories are established, vendors, analysts and influencers each spend a tremendous amount of time in the early days helping to educate the market. There’s a great deal of discussion around definitions of a solution as companies try to establish the […]