Enterprise technology opinions, analysis, and forecasts from Network World's experts
Hyped technologies create staffing pressures. And as technology gets more complex, it’s harder to understand what skills are needed and identify who has them.
Key takeaway: In these 10 cloud disasters, only one company came out unscathed, and it’s the one that had a tested third-party backup of its cloud data.
CISOs are still hampered by bad assumptions and outdated approaches. They should be involved in decisions from day 1 to address unique business needs.
New AI-driven management capabilities aim to provide greater visibility into SD-WAN performance and reduce WAN troubleshooting time.
Open technology appeals to enterprises that want to avoid vendor lock-in. But to deliver real value, open-model technologies need to do more.
Kyndryl will incorporate Nvidia AI technologies into its Kyndryl Bridge platform to optimize AIOps services.
IT orgs feel less locked into their network management tools, particularly as they look to apply AI/ML to tasks such as intelligent alerting, change management, and capacity management.
BGP is how the autonomous networks that make up the internet share routing information to find the best route for IP traffic. CISA describes BGP as 'the most important part of the internet you’ve probably never heard of.'
Kyndryl is using AI to expand its integration services for on-premise and cloud environments, adding to its range of security, mainframe modernization, and AI-readiness services.
Email spoofing is acknowledged by experts as a very credible threat.
Security used to be an explicit part of networking, as it was in IBM SNA and mainframe security. Can and should networks be the security focus again?
At RSA Conference 2024, Cisco announced plans to integrate its XDR platform and Splunk’s SIEM, bolster its Hypershield AI-native security architecture, and add to its Duo access-protection software.
Many of today’s IT innovations have their roots in virtual machines (VM) and their ability to separate software from hardware.
The Domain Name System resolves the names of internet sites with their underlying IP addresses, adding efficiency and security in the process.
Corelight aims to boost AI-driven security operations, cloud visibility and detection, and next-generation SIEM platforms.
Extreme AI Expert can answer network questions, troubleshoot operations, and create alerts for conditions such as network degradation or Wi-Fi dead spots.
HashiCorp's automation technology will fit into IBM’s Red Hat, watsonx, data security, IT automation and consulting businesses.
New 700 series Wi-Fi 7 access points from HPE Aruba offer faster performance, improved IoT and location capabilities, and twice as much SDRAM and flash memory for local data processing.
Independent broadband and telecom-infrastructure providers could provide connectivity options in areas where service is thin, if enterprise concerns about business viability and technology operations are addressed.
Cloud backup providers aren’t infallible. Be sure to ask hard questions of providers about their storage redundancy, geo-replication, data integrity measures, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Security and compliance requirements drive IT pros to commercial automation tools, while the prospect of more customizable functionality lures teams to DIY automation.
Switches connect network segments, providing full-duplex communication, valuable network performance data and efficient use of network bandwidth.
At the Intel Vision 2024 event, Intel unveiled the Gaudi 3 accelerator along with AI-optimized Ethernet networking tech, including an AI NIC and AI connectivity chiplets.
Uptime Institute finds networking problems are the root cause of most IT service-related issues, while power is the primary source of data center downtime, and cyberattacks are becoming a significant contributor to outages.
The annual World Backup Day, which is March 31, is a good reminder to review your backup policies and practices.
Most enterprises are juggling multiple commercial, open source, and homegrown network automation tools, and few are reporting fully successful automation initiatives.
Companies need greater network segmentation, sandboxes, firewalls, and anomaly detection to fight attackers, according to Cisco's 2024 Cybersecurity Readiness Index.
Office environments need to change to foster collaboration, and employers need to close the AI skills gap, Cisco reports in its hybrid work study.
The Splunk buy and Cisco’s partnership with Nvidia are part of its efforts to build data-center network infrastructure for supporting AI/ML workloads.
As a subset of distributed computing, edge computing isn’t new, but it exposes an opportunity to distribute latency-sensitive application resources more optimally.
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