Frost & Sullivan Applauds QualiSystems' Leadership in SDN/NFV Testing and DevOps Transformation

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- QualiSystems, the leading provider of cloud management and automation platforms for DevOps transformation, and Frost & Sullivan, a world leader in growth consulting and the integrated areas of technology and market research, Mega Trends, economic research, best practices, training, customer research, competitive intelligence, and corporate strategy, today announced QualiSystems as Frost & Sullivan's chosen recipient of the Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award.

Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are still young in their deployment cycles. The industry is still developing operational experience about the agility SDN and NFV can offer as an evolution of network architecture and how to develop and manage new network services based on SDN/NFV deployments. Adding confusion to the SDN/NFV arena is the extensive number of proposed solutions to the evolved network control plane, as evidenced by the plethora of controllers offered via the Open Network Foundation (ONF), Open Daylight project, the Open Network Operating System project, and many vendor-specific implementations.  Against this backdrop of newness, service providers have a strong need to develop sound testing and operational methodologies that can cope with the increased complexity of networks that will increasingly be programmatically operated and that require greater levels of automation. 

"This award comes at a time when QualiSystems has established key industry partnerships around SDN/NFV testing and DevOps. Our customers demonstrate how we achieve automated, cloud-enabled DevOps-type practices in SDN and NFV testing," said Lior Koriat, chief executive officer at QualiSystems. "For example, Cisco DevNet is a public cloud based on QualiSystems' CloudShell platform that offers ISVs access to complex network topologies of Cisco hardware and software products for the purposes of API development and certification testing."

For the Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award, Frost & Sullivan considers the necessary elements to achieve top-line growth. This analysis takes into account what competitors are, and are not, doing; how the organization meets customer demand with a comprehensive, value-driven product or service portfolio; and whether the company has established a brand that resonates deeply with customers and stands apart from other providers. Companies must succeed at these three things—brand, demand, and positioning—to achieve best-practice levels in competitive strategy.

In determining the award recipient, analysts independently evaluated two key factors—Strategy Innovation and Customer Impact. To support its evaluation of best practices across multiple business performance categories, Frost & Sullivan employs a customized Decision Support Scorecard. This tool objectively analyzes performance according to key benchmarking criteria and assigns ratings on that basis. The tool follows a 10-point scale that allows for nuances in performance evaluation. The research team confirms the veracity of this weighted scorecard through sensitivity analysis, which confirms that small changes to the ratings for a specific criterion do not lead to a significant change in the overall relative rankings of the companies.

"QualiSystems has made significant inroads in the SDN/NFV market as an IT automation software provider by bringing new thought leadership insights into how automation and DevOps are the necessary companion to SDN and NFV network transformation, through the most extensive partnerships in the market with companies such as IXIA, Cisco, OOL, WWT and QualiTest," said Mariano Kimbara, Frost & Sullivan industry analyst. "QualiSystems has delivered a best-in-class purchase experience to end users, systematizing knowledge for hybrid programmer/non-programmer network teams and executing sustainable automation practices. We are happy to recognize its excellence with our award."

About QualiSystems
QualiSystems is the leading provider of cloud management platforms for DevOps transformation for IT infrastructure, network, development and test organizations. QualiSystems automation makes infrastructure agile to enable business to get to market faster, maximize costly resources, and reduce CAPEX and OPEX waste.

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