Tag: networking

January 24, 2024

Following a year ripe with innovation, disruption, and challenging macro-level conditions, IT departments continue to be at the forefront of organizational ambitions to accelerate business transformation. Generative AI (GenAI), sustainability initiatives, and other strategic priorities are set to emerge from […]

January 16, 2024

Many enterprise IT execs plan to enhance their network and data center infrastructures, particularly in areas of sustainability, energy efficiency, hybrid cloud, and cybersecurity, in 2024. They may find themselves stymied, however, by a lack of trained professionals capable of […]

October 18, 2023

A survey from secure access service edge (SASE) platform provider Cato Networks has found that management increasingly expects networking and security teams to work closer together, if not outright converge, to better business operations, even if occasional problems or turf […]

August 22, 2023

The heavy buzz around all things AI got louder in the financial reports of networking vendors this quarter, even though AI hasn’t made a significant impact on most vendors’ financial performance and supply chain challenges remain a more immediate concern. […]

July 6, 2023

Network connectivity and security are key areas for IT investment as well as potential barriers to global success, according to new research. Nearly half of CIOs claim that establishing and managing connectivity in new markets is the single most critical […]

May 26, 2023

Certifications are a great way for IT pros to pave a path to a specific career in tech. Whether in cybersecurity, software development, networking, or any other IT specialty, certifications can raise your career profile and help employers identify your […]

January 17, 2023

By the end of 2023, 20% of organizations will have adopted a NaaS strategy. With tightening economic conditions, IT requires flexibility in how network infrastructure is acquired, deployed, and operated to enable network teams to deliver business outcomes rather than […]

December 16, 2022

Hybrid and multicloud initiatives will continue to shape enterprise IT in 2023, and the impact on data-center networking will be felt across key areas including security, management, and operations. Network teams are investing in technologies such as SD-WAN and SASE, […]

October 11, 2021

It’s the time of year when most enterprises are involved in a more-or-less-formal technology review cycle, as a preparatory step for next year’s budgeting. They’ve done this for decades, and it’s interesting to me that in any given year, enterprises […]

July 1, 2021

Much has been written about the convergence of security and networking. Often the focus is on one side or the other. Networks need to be more secure. And security needs to take the network into account. But what’s often ignored […]

March 22, 2021

Data is the fuel that drives digital business processes, but most organizations today don’t have an efficient way of managing it across all the platforms on which they have deployed applications. At its core a data fabric architecture loosely describes […]

November 20, 2020

We’re eight months into corporate America’s great work-from-home experiment, and it hasn’t gone quite the way business leaders expected. Their scattered workforces, even in the midst of a stressful pandemic while shouldering extra burdens like childcare, have been remarkably productive. […]

October 6, 2020

Networks today are essential for supporting businesses, providing communication, delivering entertainment—the list goes on and on. A fundamental element networks have in common is the network switch, which helps connect devices for the purpose of sharing resources. What is a […]

May 30, 2018

IT managers are often responsible not just for overseeing the IT infrastructure in an organization but overseeing IT teams as well. To succeed as an IT manager, you will need to understand the fundamentals of security, data storage, hardware, software, […]

May 8, 2017

Unlike the software-defined network (SDN) — which is like network virtualization on steroids, but primarily datacenter-based — the software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) is essentially application routing capabilities for WANs, primarily everywhere but the data center. And it is getting a […]

February 27, 2017

Enterprises and cloud companies will start trying their hands at cellular this year, Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri predicts. “Enhanced reality” and events such as concerts may be where cloud giants first get into mobile services, Suri said at […]

October 19, 2016

Data is piling up, and storage keeps getting faster thanks to flash, so the networks that link it all together need to keep up, too. Both traditional Fibre Channel and more general-use protocols used in storage keep steadily ratcheting up […]

October 19, 2016

Facebook’s bid to open up networking is moving up into nosebleed territory for data centers. The company’s 100-gigabit switch design has been accepted by the Open Compute Project, a step that should help to foster an open ecosystem of hardware […]