Enterprise technology opinions, analysis, and forecasts from Network World's experts
Edge computing has many upsides including better near-real-time response and analytics for IoT, but it’s far from plug and play.
It’s hard to set priorities for buying IT technology when vendors poorly explain what they do, how they do it, and what the concrete benefits are. Asking them these four questions can break the information logjam.
Network security shouldn't be just a set of routine tactical chores to maintain safeguards already in place, but a constant strategizing to anticipate the next threat.
Tape isn’t close to being the perfect backup, but it is pretty impervious to ransomware.
SD-WAN overhead, on ramps, off ramps, and security are variable and must be chosen carefully to satisfy your performance requirements.
If accurate, the performance of Tesla’s homegrown Dojo supercomputer as measured in FLOPS outperforms the recognized world’s fastest supercomputer by a factor of two.
The next generation of Wi-Fi is at least three years off, but Intel predicts it will be up to five times faster
Sometimes it’s enough to fix an IT problem without discovering the root cause.
If you’re considering private 5G for an IoT project, you’ll need to learn a lot, choose between white-box switches and servers, and maybe decide that Wi-Fi 6 is a better idea.
Big networking players like Cisco, HPE, and VMware, but also more specialized vendors like Versa and Fortinet, offer different flavors of SD-WAN for varying enterprise needs.
Netops specialists are hard to find, and Cisco, Extreme, and Juniper are among those trying to fill the void with managed services.
Software-defined networking, artificial intelligence, cloud, new Wi-Fi and 5G options, and network security can combine to improve performance of traditional networks.
As employees split their time between the office and working at home, IT skills requirements have shifted to cloud, security, and automation.
Cloud-based disaster recovery offers speed and cost advantages.
Artificial intelligence and AI vendors promise a lot, but grill your providers about how theirs works and its limitations.
Which is better: SD-WAN or MPLS? The answer is that it depends–on cost, the demands of mission-critical apps, need for centralized management.
The promise of Wi-Fi in the 6GHz band is undeniable, but experts agree that it’s rarely worth deviating from your usual refresh cycle.
Improved monitoring of work-at-home environments requires money, simplified infrastructure, and better IT leadership, an Enterprise Management Associates report says.
Prepping for hybrid cloud relies on essentials like developing in-house expertise and careful analysis that proves out what the cost benefits will be.
EMA study found networking pros who reported the most success with AIOps pointed to improved security and compliance as a potential benefit.
It might be time to rethink what "backing up" your key systems should involve
Integrating white-box switches and routers into business networks has its challenges, but properly scaled and vetted deployments can save money.
Intel-based supercomputers make up fewer of the TOP500 fastest than previously as the company puts the brakes on its Xeon Scalable CPUs, codenamed Sapphire Rapids, until next April at the earliest.
Try as it might to be all-things-networking to all enterprises, Cisco faces a wily group of rivals with assets that are hard to overcome. Here’s our list of a notable 10.
The goal of the DoD'S Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative is wholly integrated networks that are fast, scalable and secure.
Why haven't smartphones and mobility launched another grand IT cycle?
Even if traditional data-center tasks are all moved to the cloud, there will still be a need for on-site infrastructure that will ultimately require what looks like a traditional data center.
There’s more than one way to backup laptop data, but not all of them can defeat the tricks attackers have designed into ransomware.
