Zenlayer Blog: Research

  Every day, data continues to drives scientific discovery and business innovation, and data centers must keep pace with the speed of change. Today, new technologies and trends are picking up steam and introducing operational paradigms that simply weren’t conceivable in the past. To gain a better understanding of the data center landscape, here are…

It’s no secret that mobile is becoming the new pillar of business. As we move deeper into the age of digital transformation, enterprises are refocusing their business strategies on mobile– in both developed and emerging markets. With more than a quarter of millennials spending over five hours a day on mobile and 78 percent of…

With standard telecommunication structures failing to keep businesses and consumers connected, the need is growing for a technology to bring various types of communications together as one.

This is where SD-WAN implementations are coming into play. This technology is changing how even the smallest businesses connect and communicate with customers and other businesses.

Enterprises throughout the world are turning to SD-WAN to reduce latency, improve reach and expand their businesses. By 2020, it’s expected that this industry will grow to over $6 billion in revenues, making it important to learn from these early adopters and see if it’s right for your business.

Just as businesses start committing to the cloud, another trend starts to emerge – edge computing.

Right now, edge computing is trending in North America for a variety of reasons. As with all technology, moving to the edge is simply the next evolution from the cloud.

While edge computing and cloud computing will work hand-in-hand, businesses are starting to find that for some things, closer data processing is the better choice.

Reaching the Chinese marketplace is likely a lucrative prospect for enterprises like yours offering streaming video or mobile services. While you’ve perhaps made inroads into this, you’ve probably fought the firewalls China uses to block specific content. To get around this, many businesses now use VPN’s, or virtual private networks.

Despite many VPN’s operating in China lately, a recent dramatic crackdown took place. This could soon change how companies effectively send content without using more technical means.

This news might throw your own business into a quandary after depending on VPNs to get mobile and video services to Chinese citizens. What does it mean for the future of VPNs and unfiltered content there?

There is some hope, mostly through other technological options.

If you care about your ecommerce business, you’re in it for the long haul—not just growth in the next quarter, or the next year—but growth over the next 20 years. And that means finding new markets for your online products, domestically, but also globally.