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By 2026, 30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities, according to Gartner. By comparison, less than 10% of enterprises were automating more than half of [...]

Changing infrastructure is generally the first draw for any enterprise zero trust initiative, separating resources on the network that traditionally had carte blanche access to anything it could ping. NIST, [...]

If you’re a CxO or tech planner, I’d be willing to bet that your attitudes on AI have changed over just the last couple of months. You no longer carefully [...]

The average organization adds or updates some 300 services every month, creating a significant challenge for security teams charged with protecting enterprise cloud-based resources, notes Unit 42. Companies in the [...]

Byline: Simon Ritter Despite advances in cloud computing, mobile development, and AI, the day-to-day business of enterprises around the world still runs on three programming languages that made their debut [...]

Byline: Lee Atchison I was talking to a colleague the other day, and they made a statement that I found very interesting. In enterprise IT organizations, only transactional applications are [...]

Byline: David Linthicum IT has a long history of problems with budgets and money. Budget overruns for IT projects are more the rule than the exception. Typically, there are a [...]

Byline: Matt Asay Chef co-founder Adam Jacob argues you should follow his lead and go all in on open source. Not open source 'Community' with paid-for 'Enterprise' bits. Open. Source. [...]

THE RECENT spate of data breaches at major U.S. organizations has raised questions about how effective current security tools and approaches are when it comes to dealing with emerging threats. [...]

WHEN IT COMES to securing enterprise data, picture an IT leader with one foot on a dock and the other on a boat. Now watch the boat slowly drift away. [...]

ENAMORED BY WI-FI'S CONVENIENCE, we tend to be blind to its risks. Many routers are riddled with security holes that leave your data exposed to enterprising hackers and other intruders. [...]

SO YOU'VE TURNED your sluggish PC into a productivity powerhouse with better, faster gear. That's a great first step. But putting together a state-of-the-art PC workstation without having a fast, [...]

The rapid growth of networked storage finds IT professionals calling for industry standards and best practices. Users must share the responsibility for setting the storage security agenda. Groups such as […]

Vendors are itching to help IT leaders manage a slew of new devices. How to decide? Consider what's 'good enough' for what you need now, but don't neglect the future. [...]

Abstract As users strive to control their exponentially expanding data, the need for heterogeneous storage management is more important than ever for the storage networking industry. This situation has created […]

YOU HAVE A target on your back. In 2012, 31 percent of cyberattacks were aimed at small businesses. But fear not. Here are several ways to fend off cyberthreats, and [...]

If software tools are stairs, escalators, and elevators designed to reach into the various levels of the business computing architecture, then corporate developers have been using a hodgepodge of conveyances […]

After playing by its own rules, Apple Computer wants to join the team For a machine designed by rebels who flouted its incompatibility with the corporate standard as a badge […]

Sometimes the best offence is a good defense. Nothing could be truer when you're going toe-to-toe with one of the biggest epidemics of the 21st century. According to several recent […]

Byline: Dan Tynan Michael Heil remembers when network convergence began to make sense to him. A few years ago, the manager of infrastructure engineering for Cone Health, a regional health [...]

Every network should have a customized manual of sorts with maps showing the network layout and written documentation on all the basic aspects of the network. Although you or some [...]

A few years ago, I was involved in a consulting project with a large company in the healthcare industry that was in the middle of a data center migration. After [...]

It's hard to imagine a company these days that isn't using open source software somewhere, whether it's Linux running a company's print and web servers, the Firefox browser on user [...]

Byline: Jim Duffy Nothing in life is free - except some tools to help you manage and improve the performance of your Ethernet networks. Here are five we found to [...]

There are endless software tools and utilities out there to help you in managing your network. Here are some of the best free ones. They can help you with deploying, [...]

Byline: Jim Duffy Enterprise adoption of SDNs is lagging that of service providers due to several factors, primarily the criticality of the network itself.To service providers, the network is the [...]

The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief [...]

Byline: Stephen Lawson The last legacy systems to make the shift to software-defined networking may be network engineers' minds, but even those are changing. For many enterprises that want to [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. Today's IT security teams are [...]

Byline: John Dix One gauge of industry progress on the software-defined networking front is the momentum of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), the user-lead group that is spelling out the [...]

Software-defined networking (SDN) is the hottest thing going today, but there is considerable confusion surrounding everything from the definition of the term to the different architectures and technologies suppliers are [...]

Byline: Linda Musthaler Enterprise networks have become so large and so complex that it's practically impossible today for humans alone to manage device configurations and policy changes in order to [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. According to a recent survey, [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. Many organizations have been consolidating [...]

Byline: Brandon Butler CHICAGO - For networking folks, the good old days are fading away. Applications used to be easy to manage, at least compared to today. Traditional network architecture [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. Over the past few years [...]

After years of consolidating IT resources as much as possible, employees are adopting laptops, smartphones, tablets, Wi-Fi and 4G to become increasingly mobile. These same empowered users are also signing [...]

The battle to deliver storage across the distributed enterprise is one of scale waged across two fronts: capacity and the number of locations where infrastructure is needed. Global organizations that [...]

According to Forrester, 89% of companies have invested in a mobile strategy, but only 40% of those companies have defined a mobile road map for the next 12 months. This [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. You don't have to look [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. As powerful and beneficial as [...]

Byline: Ellen Messmer Attackers have invaded corporate networks to steal sensitive data and use them as staging grounds to attack other corporate networks -- and IT managers detecting these invaders [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. Whatever industry you're in, your [...]

Byline: Larry Hettick Webtorials recently posted an excellent and thorough research report that examines how desktop video affects the enterprise network. Dr. E. Brent Kelly of Constellation Research developed this [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. Enhancements to server and storage [...]

Byline: Linda Musthaler There are three megatrends that are colliding to make work a real challenge for the IT security professional. First of all are the disruptive changes enterprise environments [...]

Software defined networking (SDN) offers significant opportunities and challenges for enterprise IT professionals. SDN has the potential to make networks more flexible, reduce the time to provision the network, improve [...]

Organizations have spent vast sums of money on security systems and, when deployed and operated correctly, they play a key role in safeguarding the organization. However, most systems have one [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. Ever since VMware bought Nicira [...]

Byline: Jim Duffy There was a lot of news and hype swirling around Software-Defined Networking in 2012, so what's on tap for 2013? Plenty. Significant advances are in store for [...]