Truly data-driven companies see significantly better business outcomes than those that aren’t. According to a recent IDC whitepaper, leaders saw on average two and a half times better results than other organizations in many business metrics. In particular, companies that were leaders at using data and analytics had three timesRead More →
AmerCareRoyal, which provides disposable products for the food service and hospitality industries, is the product of six mergers and acquisitions over the past several years, and its former network security setup couldn’t keep up. Jeff DeSandre, who joined the company as CIO in 2019, wanted an SD-WANplatform that came withRead More →
Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that rolls SD-WAN and security into a single, centrally-managed cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved security, and better performance. According to Gartner, SASE’s benefits are transformational because it can speed deployment time for new users, locations, applications, and devices,Read More →
More companies are planning to invest in the new frontier that is the metaverse, but cybersecurity threats are a top concern, according to a study released today by cybersecurity company Tenable. The metaverse is envisioned as a 3D version of the internet that’s a shared virtual space where people spendRead More →
Digital twins are a digital representation of objects, structures or systems that give organizations greater insight into the life cycle of these objects, but this same level of insight and control can also open doors for malicious attackers. Digital twins can be created for any physical infrastructure that includes individualRead More →
Gaming technology will be the biggest driving force for the evolution of the metaverse in the near term, according to a new report published last week by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Video game publishers will be pushing deeper into live service platforms whose virtual worlds exhibit the potential of the metaverse,Read More →
When you start to adopt Kubernetes (or indeed any other technology), you’re making decisions from the very first moment. Which cloud vendor do you choose to host your workloads? Which Kubernetes distribution? Which service mesh? Which logging tool? Read the full story at The New Stack.Read More →
Citrix Systems, a software company with a long history of reorganizing, announced in January that it had entered into an agreement to be acquired by affiliates of two private equity companies, Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation (an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management). With the $16.5 billion, all-cashRead More →
The enterprise network is undergoing a fundamental transition from manual to automated, from hardware to software-defined, from tightly controlled to sprawling across SaaS, multi-cloud, remote work and IoT environments. Network professionals are expected to not only extend existing functionality across all of those environments, they must elevate the capabilities of the networkRead More →
A growing number of financial experts predict that a global economic slowdown — possibly a recession — is on the way. As CEOs prepare for an economic decline, they’ll be asking their chief technology officers and IT managers to cut costs. Read the full story at The New Stack.Read More →