Enterprise technology opinions, analysis, and forecasts from Network World's experts
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.
Will NDN kill the cloud, just like content delivery networks (CDN) kill latency?
There are several ways of moving data to backup storage sites where it will be safe in a disaster, but none is perfect. Here are the upsides and downsides of each.
Enterprises have been slowly moving away from IPv4 and toward IPv6, but the process might be speeded up because adopting IPv6 has advantages for the booming business of networking the internet of things.
SD-WAN vendors use open source as the foundation of their solutions and then add additional functionality over the baseline.
A penetration test is only as good as the person conducting it. There are gaps that a national execution standard could fill and ensure networks are equally secure.
There’s huge potential with the IoT, but security must be built into a company’s plan and not tacked on at the end.
Ideally, meeting the business objectives of speed, agility and cost containment boil down to two architectural approaches: the legacy telco versus the cloud-based provider.
Devices supporting Wi-Fi 6 a.k.a 802.11ax are expected out in 2019, but with the standard yet to be ratified, jumping in early might best be left to those with a compelling use case - and those do exist.
SD-WAN introduces new security options, not previously available with legacy networking technologies, that make it easier to manage and secure network traffic.
The disruptive power of the Internet of Things is transforming retail, but there's much more to come. An ecommerce expert shares insights on what to expect in the IoT/retail world.
To undergo the transition from legacy to cloud-native application environments you need to employ zero trust.
Intel is executing fairly well for a company that doesn't have a leader, but this can’t go on forever.
Everyone knows security is a big issue for the Internet of Things, but what specifically should we be most afraid of? OWASP identifies the top 10 vulnerabilities.
If you're gearing up to be a cybersecurity pro, you must have Linux skills. Linux Basics for Hackers will quickly get you up to speed.
Oculeus uses machine learning and behavioral analysis to hang up on expensive fraudulent calls, protecting PBX systems from attacks.
Enterprise Management Associates found that 90% of enterprises want platforms that support more comprehensive management of software-defined-WAN environments.
Orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access provides Wi-Fi 6 with high throughput and more network efficiency by letting multiple clients connect to a single access point simultaneously.
ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) is a memory exploitation mitigation technique used on both Linux and Windows systems. Learn how to tell if it's running, enable/disable it, and get a view of how it works.
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