Let’s talk headsets. Yes, headsets. With all the activity surrounding many emerging technologies, ranging from machine learning to collaboration to advanced networking, why headsets? They’re becoming increasingly more important to the daily life of employees, how they serve customers, and how they interact with others, either from...
Regional network hubs are emerging as a major evolution of the WAN in the age of cloud. Backhaul or Direct Internet Access...
We've been tracking the shift to cloud for a long time now, both the precipitous and the halting. Precipitous, as with SaaS, which went from an oddball kind of solution few companies used 10 years ago to a ubiquitous solution in use at more than 95%...
Nemertes's latest UCC TCO study reveal agility and the ability to refocus IT on strategic initiatives beat cost savings as cloud drivers. When it comes to cloud, you'd think you're either a fool or living under a rock if you're not embracing it. So whenever a...
Many companies are moving towards a DevOps model for developing and deploying software and infrastructure. DevOps is also a bellwether technology for organizations: Companies that have the most mature cloud and data center strategies are three times as likely to use DevOps as are companies...
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine recently announced the development of a self-healing polymer with applications in smartphones and robotics. Lead scientist Dr. Chao Wang announced the findings at the American Chemical Society meeting on April 4th. The material can be severed but will...
Infosec professionals are well familiar with the phenomenon of Transport Layer Security (TLS) interception. For everyone else, some background: TLS is the successor to SSL, once the default encryption protocol. TSL provides the underpinnings for many common security protocols, including secure HTTP (HTTPS). Protocols like TLS...
Signs of change and disruption were all around us at last week's conference and expo. Read more at NoJitter.com...
Moving more work into the cloud makes IT revisit the question: Leverage vendor-specific platform services or give up leverage for control and portability. Haven't We Been Here Before We are just about to launch our latest round of benchmarking the enterprise's use of emerging technology in cloud and data...
Everybody Automates Whether it's Perl or Python or PowerShell, bash or Ruby or Salt, scripts and recipes are everywhere. And, they are layered: scripts run other scripts, sometimes many layers deep (and sometimes recursively!), or runbook automation tools from the likes of IBM or BMC run...
People have been claiming to have a private cloud for six or seven years, even though (as we discussed recently here) they didn't and don't, really. Why don't they have a private cloud yet? Private Cloud is Hard To be their own Amazon Web Services (or Microsoft Azure, or...