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An Independent Research and Analysis Firm
AvidThink publishes research briefs and reports on infrastructure technologies including Edge, IoT, SD-WAN, SDN, NFV. We also provide customized research and go-to-market consulting. In the last five years, AvidThink’s research reports (as part of SDxCentral’s research offerings) have been downloaded over 110,000 times by 40,000 technology buyers and industry thought leaders. We’ve partnered with well-known clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 firms to bring you the reports you see on our Research Reports archives.
The AvidThink Blog illuminates current issues with articles from our team as well as contributions from guests we feel provide thoughtful commentary about a wide variety of topics. Our blog is also used for surveys, and invitations to industry and private events.
Reports and Briefs
Trusted reports and research briefs covering the latest in infrastructure technologies.
Disaggregation in Networking: The Second Wave
This research brief explores the drivers behind this second wave of disaggregation, the architectural implications, and the resulting business impact for service providers
Scaling the Edge with Redfish®
In this research brief we dig into the differences between edge platforms and today’s data center platforms, challenges with remote management and the DMTF Redfish® standard.
AI in IT — Cutting Through the Hype
In this research brief, we touch on key aspects that are important for professionals to understand as they gear up to deploy AI within the IT domain.
Articles
Thoughtful and insightful analysis.
Insecurity in Security — How MEF intends to Protect SD-WAN Services
In response to a growing need, the MEF has embarked upon a new initiative emerging out of the SD-WAN standardization: Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS).
In 2020, will SD-WAN turn SASE and FUN?
Among other trends, such as Gartner's SASE, there are lofty cloud expectations for SD-WAN this year.
Telcos embrace containers at KubeCon 2019: Ambitious end-to-end 5G demo with containers impresses
Attendance was up 50% year-over-year for this week's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 in San Diego.