Opinion

Ireland the best place to set up a data center in the EU

Connectivity, low taxes, government support and good beer—well, the last part is debatable

Choosing Windows for your organization should get you fired

No operating system gets hit by ransomware attacks like Windows. If you want to keep your data safe, you need to migrate to something else.

Creating a wireless smart infrastructure: 4 expert recommendations

Researchers point out where more smart infrastructure is needed to support IoT, smart cities and smart transportation

Cisco upgrades one IoT platform and announces another

The company now has two IoT platforms: Cisco Jasper and now Cisco Kinetic

How mainframes change our lives

Everyone knows banks love mainframes, but these powerful computers are also used to power our homes, build our cars, facilitate our healthcare, and keep us entertained. If finance is not your cup of tea, there are plenty of other fields where skills

Time to consider a move to IPv6

The growth of the IoT means organizations need to start considering migrating to IPv6. Failing to migrate will restrict their ability to be flexible and innovative.

What Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods means for enterprise IT operations

Apparently any business can be reinvented with technology and software.

The inextricable link between IoT and machine learning

Machine learning will deliver much of the intelligence in the internet of things

Apcela advises how to build a hybrid IT platform for better performance and stronger security

Data center startup offers compute colo at cell towers

Put the compute and network right next to each other, it argues.

The fight to defend the Internet of Things

A primer on the Internet of Things security and how to protect it.

IoT devices or humans?

Disney has its MagicBands, and now Carnival Cruise Lines uses the Ocean Medallion wearable to assist with check-in and create personal experiences for guests

Reducing data among proposed techniques to speed-up computers

Existing computers are too slow for future problem-solving requirements, so new solutions must be found, say researchers.

Fog computing may be IoT’s computational model

The fog computing model contrasts IoT needs with cloud computing

Internet of Things helps fuel growth of data lakes

The need for increased business agility and accessibility are driving the market.

How to quicken your site’s webpage load time

Dump your CMS for static webpage generators

Arista’s new solutions sets the standard for cloud scale

Network engineering is key to meeting IoT expectations

Connecting the billions of IoT devices will take a lot of application specific network engineering.

Parked electric cars will power buildings, researchers say

A significant hindrance to green-friendly vehicle-to-grid technology has been overcome, say university scientists. It will result in cheaper power-hungry buildings.

When SD-WAN is more than SD-WAN

The benefits of SD-WAN with integrated security.

Aryaka brings benefits of software defined to remote and mobile workers

Aryaka’s SmartACCESS SD-WAN product improves application performance for remote and mobile workers, providing a global private network, WAN optimization and dynamic IP app acceleration

Amazon transforms data into bricks

Amazon is opening physical stores, but they are still digital

Skyport Systems plugs the agility, security gaps of hybrid cloud

Skyport Systems’ SkySecure Hybrid Cloud Edge securely runs application gateways at the network edge, providing agility and security for apps that run in the cloud and the data center

Data migrations without the migraines

Data mobility helps enterprise IT move past the struggle of storage migrations, and instead automatically align data to the storage that best meets changing business needs.

Consumer IoT could outpace industrial IoT

Gartner and Tech Insider agree on unit forecasts but disagree about buyers

Data should be stored in space, firm says

Cloud Constellation Corp., a space data-center start-up, plans to build a space-based server farm, architecture and telecom backbone

4 resources to find free Cisco skills and certification labs

Options include virtual courses, live teachers and instructional software

Survey says: Enterprise IT needs a Zoloft and a life coach

Aging data centers, cloud computing, high server workloads and more are stressing data center professionals out. New research shows, though, there’s no need to panic.

Researchers find gaps in IoT security

Security researchers from the University of Michigan and Stony Brook University compared IoT to established platforms and uncovered incomplete defenses

Sumo Logic wants to make machine data analysis available to companies of all sizes