Enterprise technology opinions, analysis, and forecasts from Network World's experts
Companies store lots of customer data – including personally identifiable information – raising concerns about the cost to store that data, as well as the need to secure it.
Cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) have spent the last several years in a sort of maximum-acceleration race where they’ve lapped the other players several times over and have only one another to measure against.
Server makers may be turning to industry verticals such as machine learning to restore growth.
Arrow Connect connects computing systems and communication systems to the Internet of Things.
Aside from being a major revenue stream, the Cisco 6500 chassis family remains a solid platform that Cisco has made extensible by creating the Catalyst 6800 family.
As enterprises delve more deeply into IoT, there will be a growing need for an operational intelligence-oriented data analyst as many IoT use-cases demand near real-time operational insight.
The IoT skills gap could expose dangerous security flaws for businesses
Star Trek is filled with advice that apply to today’s tech professionals. Here’s a look at seven from the Enterprise’s most logical crew member, Spock.
While SD-WANs are a hot topic currently, WANs will ultimately wane and give way to “wide area inter-networks."
The current way open computing standards are decided is broken. Deciding what to replace it with, though, is difficult. There’s no one easy solution.
Forrester report details how businesses can actually take advantage of the Internet of Things.
Gathering data for situational awareness should still take place during natural disasters, even if there’s no internet, say scientists. Edge computing must perform the task.
4G LTE internet is an under-utilized asset for your company’s network — and your sanity.
How will SD-WAN connect to the cloud? SD-WAN technologies have different approaches to their ease of implementation with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Technologies such as wearables, video, drones and artificial intelligence have the potential to improve healthcare.
Office 365 implementation can be far more complex than you might imagine. Implementing the ideal architecture will make the difference between a quick success or a painful extended process. Using SD-WAN makes it easier if you have regional internet b
In regard to network testing, the terms emulation and simulation are often used interchangeably. In most cases, either term will generally get the point across, but there’s a big difference between a network emulator and network simulator, both pract
The network is not a commodity component, but a vital and strategic key to unlocking the potential of innovation.
The struggle is real — find out if your top issues match up with these common problems for enterprise IT admins
It's easy to think that you should select an SD-WAN technology bases on a list of features. But there are many other factors to consider as you "peel the onion."
Connecting to a local cloud provides the best performance. If you can’t do that, content delivery networks (CDNs) or edge data centers can help.
Understanding changing network business models and how to adapt your IT operations.
IoT services from the likes of AT&T, Amazon Web services and others creates a patchwork of possibilities
The World Wide Web Consortium’s decision to keep votes about DRM secret and that it censured the EFF for “disclosing even vague sense of a vote” raises concerns.
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Smartphones are responsible for significant web traffic growth, and a surprising amount of it is on Wi-Fi, not mobile networks.
Who is winning with data, where is this data being kept, what makes new data different, when should data be kept, moved, deleted or transformed, how should data be valued, and why data is so much more important than it used to be?
With so much to gain from computers helping us with front-end processing in apps and services, it’s no surprise that machine learning is rapidly moving to the backroom of data centers. How this transformational technology is helping enterprises overc
We used to own our things, but increasingly our things own us. The laws need to change to restore our traditional rights of property and ownership to the digital times.
