Today's decision by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to increase funding for E-Rate represents a giant leap forward in fulfilling the goal of connecting every classroom in America to high-speed wireless Internet in the n...
If you had a chance to check out the Cisco Global Cloud Index, it's no real surprise that data center traffic will nearly triple over the next five years and cloud traffic will nearly quadruple. Customers want cloud solutions to l...
Today, businesses are looking at security in a strategic, comprehensive way to protect mission critical processes and assets. There has never been a greater need to understand the impact that security threats can have on a company...
It started with voice: Get more from your corporate infrastructure investments by moving audio traffic onto the data network. It was a good idea that made good financial sense. It caught on. It became pervasive. As it did, we look...
The sheer size, variety, and speed of data traversing today's networks are increasing exponentially. This highly distributed data is generated by a wide range of cloud and enterprise applications, websites, social media, computers...
Our 2013 IT Impact Survey highlighted the importance of collaboration between business leaders and IT as trends like BYOD, data center consolidation and Cloud applications put more pressure on the network. Why collaborate? The sur...
"We are going through unprecedented change in the service provider industry -and it's increasingly becoming a mobile and cloud-based world, with competition around every corner," Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president of Cisco's servi...
Many parts of the world are undergoing structural reform in terms of their utilities and services, and Electrical Utilities are no exception. Privatization was opening up both opportunities and challenges for the Electricity Autho...
In this episode of Engineers Unplugged, Tony Harvey (@tonyknowspower) and Craig Sullivan (@craigsullivan70) discuss the role of storage in SAP HANA. How does big data impact you? Watch and learn. Thinking about unicorns.T...
Read today's data center news and it's all about software innovation, Cloud, SDN, Internet of Everything, Big Data, applications...etc. One would think that the days of hardware innovation are long gone. That's far from the ...
This post was authored by Yves Younan. Today, Microsoft is releasing their final Update Tuesday of 2014. Last year, the end of year update was relatively large. This time, it's relatively light with a total of seven bulletins, cov...
Want to get the most out of your big data? Build an enterprise data hub (EDH). Big data is rapidly getting bigger. That in itself isn't a problem. The issue is what Gartner analyst Doug Laney describes as the three Vs of B...