Enterprise technology opinions, analysis, and forecasts from Network World's experts
The open source community encourages a lot of people to contribute, and the variety of Linux distributions means you’re likely to find many options that fit your needs.
The 2025 edition of Cisco Live delivered a hefty payload of AI-related infrastructure innovations.
It's hard to imagine an easy-yet-broadscale IT win to be gained from deploying any single technology like private 5G, edge computing or AI. But applied together, there's cause for excitement.
AI has transformed almost every aspect of technology, and now Nvidia is looking to bring the technology to the wireless industry with its compact Aerial RAN computer.
That's one takeaway from the Connect 2025 event in Paris, where Extreme rolled out new products to address the upcoming wave of AI in networking.
When asked which IT vendors are shaping the future of networking, a lot of enterprises said IBM, which doesn’t even make network products. What do network vendors need to do to reclaim strategic influence and generate interest and excitement?
AI, scaling, cross-sell and Java present near-term opportunities for IBM’s massive partner ecosystem.
Beyond the stadium, Notre Dame is upgrading its entire network infrastructure, including switches, to meet the demands of Wi-Fi 6E.
Digital twins, linked with AI, could remake networking. The combination enables a whole new level of automation.
Enterprise IT tends to view AI agents as application components that fit into business processes and workflows with varying degrees of autonomous operation. That’s opposed to a chatbot or copilot model, which suggests more of a personal productivity
The new AI feature in the PGA Tour's Tourcast platform brings every golf shot to life with real-time context and insights, enabling more players to get meaningful coverage instead of just those at the top of the leaderboard. What can IT teams learn f
Enterprises that take a team approach to cloud planning are finding success in optimizing cost/benefit ratios and shortening the payback time of cloud implementation costs.
Although we have yet to see the full potential of 5G, many countries are already starting to look towards the next generation of technology.
Since 2011, World Backup Day serves as a reminder to back up data and digital assets to protect against loss or damage.
In the age of AI, high-speed optical networking is more important than ever. Co-packaged optics removes the need for pluggable optics, simplifying network design while increasing resiliency.
Initiative led by Jio Platforms Limited will combine AMD’s computing solutions, Cisco’s networking and security, and Nokia’s RAN and core technologies.
A universal Internet of Everything that sees all and knows all requires control: How do we give tech a closer look at our activities while avoiding privacy and security pitfalls? AI is almost surely the only path to achieving that control.
Microsoft’s expanded partnership with Veeam benefits customers and indicates a significant shift in the data resiliency market.
Cisco aims to help customers do more with AI, and at Cisco Live in Amsterdam, company leaders talked up its security direction, Silicon One network processors, and platform approach.
Extending IT to reach the 40% of employees who don't work in traditional offices requires new applications to boost those users' productivity, which creates the business case to spur genuine network transformation.
Through new partnerships with industry leaders, Nvidia aims to help advance practical use cases for AI in healthcare and life sciences.
Modernizing remote access from VPN to ZTNA provides more granular controls, improved security, and a better user experience, says Cisco, which warns of pitfalls to avoid.
Enterprises that struggle to collect network monitoring data from internet connections and SASE solutions are more likely to replace their legacy network monitoring tools with new observability platforms, EMA finds.
Alarming new research shows that if your enterprise is careless about managing cloud resources, it's just a matter of time before you're compromised.
Developers can save time, improve accessibility, and automate tasks with Deepgram's suite of tools for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and full speech-to-speech voice agents.
Think of 2025 as a transition year as networking players put their efforts into finding new applications with solid business benefits that warrant, and can fund, a network transformation.
RedHat’s RamaLama project, which aims to make AI boring through the use of OCI containers, is an example of how the world of containers is merging with the world of AI inferencing.
President Trump wants more leading-edge chips manufactured in the US
Gartner analysis shows the cost of a VMware migration could outweigh the benefits when software and hardware purchases, personnel costs, early termination fees, and other operational expenses are calculated.
Opengear survey reveals high investment costs, regulatory compliance, and lack of skills as obstacles to successful AI implementations.
