Enterprise technology opinions, analysis, and forecasts from Network World's experts
5G wireless networks are just about ready for prime time, overcoming backhaul and backward-compatibility issues and promising the possibility of all-mobile networking.
Meta Networks has a unique approach to the security of its Network-as-a-Service. A tight security perimeter is built around every user and the specific resources each person needs to access.
I’ve seen plenty of articles touting the promise of edge computing technologies like AI and robotics in retail brick & mortar, but it wasn’t until this past weekend that I had my first encounter with an actual robot in a retail store.
Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren suggests national legislation focused on farm equipment. But that’s only a first step. The data collected by that equipment must also be considered.
Examples of excellent IoT platform UX from the perspectives of 5 typical IoT platform personas.
Despite the increasing popularity and convenience of ecommerce, 92% of purchases continue to be made off-line, according to the U.S. Census.
The global edge computing market size is projected to reach $3.24 billion US by 2025 (according to a study conducted by Grand View Research, Inc.).
Capacity enhancements for fiber-optic communications continue.
Industry trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and content distribution networks (CDNs) are driving the need for edge computing. That’s because these solutions often require low latency, high bandwidth, greater reliability, and strong security.
Recent breakthroughs in technology have expanded the possibilities for where data is gathered, processed, stored and analyzed. IT staffs and their business counterparts now have the flexibility of deciding whether their applications are more efficien
Read the fine print in your current WAN contracts first to choose the most cost-effective SD-WAN option.
IT professionals have been honing their data center management expertise for decades. However, migrating these best practices to an edge computing environment can be challenging.
Today’s networks are both elastic and permeable. Software-defined perimeter (SDP) technology enables simpler, trusted, and secure access to applications in public or private cloud.
Cost and complexity are the top shortcomings of tools enterprises need for monitoring and managing their cloud services, according to Enterprise Management Associates.
As edge computing deployments get under way, organizations need to make their edge computing sites resilient.
Business Wi-Fi has grown in importance, and an AI-based operational model is needed to keep up with increasing demands.
SD-WAN offers cost savings, improved reliability, security and more
There are plenty of reasons for organizations to embrace edge computing. By moving applications, data, and computing services to the edge of a network, as opposed to a large data center or cloud, organizations can lower operating costs, improve appli
Now that edge computing has emerged as a major trend, the question for enterprises becomes how to migrate the data center management expertise acquired over many years to these new, remote environments.
A wealth of standards, possible architectures and applications makes careful planning of mobile edge systems important, difficult.
What do embedded sensors, ecommerce sites, social media platforms, and streaming services have in common? They all produce vast volumes of data, much of which travels across the internet.
Reinventing smart routing and dumb forwarding.
Linux has long been the basis of commercial networking devices, but now it's a mainstay of enterprise infrastructure.
Spending on Internet of Things (IoT) will reach $1.3 trillion by 2020, and the processing of 43 percent of this data will be at the edge, according to IDC projections.
Making edge computing safe means applying sound security principles to the unique edge environment.
With new and emerging security threats to blockchain projects, it's time to consider building decentralized security applications.
Gartner defines edge computing as “solutions that facilitate data processing at or near the source of data generation,” a nice, succinct explanation of this booming technology.
To insure the security and privacy of Internet of Things deployments, vendors, service providers and corporate IT practitioners must assume responsibility for the integrity of their IoT networks and the data they handle.
Cooperation between SD-WAN vendors and cloud service providers contributes to easily managed cloud connections across multiple cloud providers and creates a secure, low-latency multi-cloud environment.
