Enterprise technology opinions, analysis, and forecasts from Network World's experts
Cradlepoint is the latest WAN vendor to bring Network-as-a-Service to market to connect people, places and things, especially over wireless WAN infrastructure
Delegating responsibility for everyday decisions to algorithms is changing the way humans handle aesthetics, an Australian researcher says
With this new gig economy, the government needs to better understand contingent workers and adjust labor laws to meet their needs
Digitally savvy people will be among immediate corporate hiring plans—along with robots, says KPMG.
After a three-year delay, the GSA reports federal MLTS systems are mostly not compliant with direct dial 911
Microsoft's Office 365 cloud suite regularly receives updates and enhancements. IT pros and enterprise users who want to get the most out of the business apps need to keep up with the changes, and online training courses are a great way to stay up to
Simply anticipating after-hours email contributes to a constant state of anxiety that adversely affects workers and results in chronic exhaustion
Twisting laser patterns into a corkscrew-like pattern, rather than sending the light beams in a line, promises to relieve some data gridlock, say scientists
Apple’s secrecy prevents it from trying new product designs and collaborating with large innovative tech communities
Can the traditional service provider weaknesses be overcome, allowing providers to drive a successful entry into the managed WLAN market?
IT’s relationship with the rest of enterprise is getting increasingly rocky. Steps can be taken, however, to alleviate the situation.
Security practitioners are familiar with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical Security Controls. Did you know there are versions of these controls tailored to mobile and Internet of Things?
Gartner analyst: In the next few years, a ‘shift to cloud’ will become ‘one of the most disruptive forces of IT spending since the early days of the digital age.’
While cloud computing has moved applications and data out of the corporate data center, it hasn't fulfilled the promise of a highly distributed infrastructure. Missing from the equation is the 'last mile.'
Changing one’s mind, real-time querying of the ballot box during an election, and instant results are some of the benefits to a blockchain-based election mechanism
White box switches have come a long way. Their cost, reliability and features mean they’re ready for a broader range of companies to use—not just large enterprises.
Corporate sustainability departments looking to reduce waste are influencing IT decision making, and it could lead to increased cloud adoption
Conventional wisdom says if we increase bandwidth, application performance will improve. But unless we decrease latency, performance will continue to suffer.
Vonage’s acquisitions make the company uniquely positioned to address the communications needs of consumers, SMBs, enterprises and developers
The enterprise is seeing return on IoT investment. And the tech genre is now a quarter of IT budgets.
A lot of people are talking about Nano Server inside Windows Server 2016. But what is it really? And why should we care?
Once you remove the noise from a huge sample of market data its patterns become surprisingly predictable
Cultures collide, it happens. But this one is a bad idea.
Docker's rapid adoption and deep penetration signal the beginning of the end for the Puppet and Chef IT automation platforms
Sift Security is a new entry in the market of tools that quicken and simplify the hunt for security threats. The graphical interface helps security analysts see threat patterns at a glance
The Wi-Fi Alliance's Passpoint certification, release 1, has tipped the scales and will become required for all new phones. But Passpoint release 2 may never be adopted.
Decentralized ad hoc networks, the kind we’re likely to see more of as IoT use increases, could self-discover their network size by copying ant colony behavior
How did a 911 call from Anchorage, Alaska, end up 2,500 miles away in a call center in Ontario? The answer may surprise you, and it is not an uncommon problem.
