eWEEK EDITORS

Across IT, practitioners and providers alike continue to grapple with clarity around what qualifies as “edge” infrastructure. But ultimately, the goals are the same: lower latency and greater resiliency for applications. Recent innovation within the industry has revealed a trifecta of distinct elements—edge computing, edge networking, and edge data management—that make up the building blocks […]

In 2021, more organizations are using the public cloud than ever. Most enterprises are using more than one public cloud service provider, and they still have workloads on-premises that need protection. At the same time, they’re building nearly all new applications in the cloud. This shift to cloud and cloud-native means that handling cloud security […]

Any good disaster recovery plan (DR) mitigates against a variety of different scenarios that might bring a service down or otherwise cause an incident. Good DR plans also connect those scenarios to goals such as high availability (HA), plus metrics for measuring performance against those goals. Common examples include data recovered — how much was […]

The flexibility of public cloud environments enables customers to provision resources with the click of a button, spin up containers based on dynamic scaling requirements, and more. A typical public cloud deployment can quickly turn into a vast maze of interconnected machines, users, applications, services, containers and microservices. Keeping track, evaluating risks and defining access […]

What comes to mind when you think of technology and digital? Maybe your mind wanders forward, and you become concerned about the impact of rogue or unbridled AI. Or maybe you are amazed by SpaceX and competing variants. Or you picture thousands of coders working for startups or digital giants creating the next amazing app […]

Enterprises and their NetOps teams are challenged with sifting through large amounts of incoming data to identify technical, performance and security problems as they arise on the network. This is traditionally a manual, time-intensive process, meaning NetOps teams are prioritizing solutions that will help identify issues and fix them quickly – AIOps is one of […]

Zero Trust is being invoked frequently by security professionals, almost as a cure-all for all those things that keep them up at night. In fact, the number of organizations using Zero Trust initiatives has more than tripled, from 16% three years ago to 60% today. But Zero Trust security can be a headache for the […]

The mass shift to remote work in 2020 turned out to be a positive for most workers, which means the hybrid workforce – a combination of remote and in-office employees – is here to stay. 56% of employees said they wanted to stay at least partially remote even after restrictions lifted – and with most […]

Classroom training is rarely able to address the needs of all students. Some students will require extra time and instruction, while others may grasp contacts quickly and be bored by repetition. By the time something new is introduced, their attention might be gone. Similarly, traditional lectures have limited impact for digital native learners who use […]

The economic value of data for companies is challenging to conceptualize and measure directly. Many executives have the wrong perception of data monetization. To them, the only way to derive economic value from data is to sell it to other companies. As a result, they overlook the immense untapped value that it represents. Companies can […]