Matthew Sarrel

Matthew D. Sarrel, CISSP, is a network security,product development, and technical marketingconsultant based in New York City. He is also a gamereviewer and technical writer. To read his opinions on games please browse http://games.mattsarrel.com and for more general information on Matt, please see http://www.mattsarrel.com.

Tapping the Positive from Social Networks for Enterprise Collaboration

Social networking and user-contributed content have taken the Internet by storm as evidenced by the popularity of MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, LinkedIn, Wikipedia and Twitter. Earlier this year, we...

Open-Source Software in the Enterprise

The topic of open-source software has been steeped in debate since the development and licensing took root in the 1980s and picked up steam with the proliferation of the...

Interest Growing in Private Cloud Computing

While there's still plenty of room for growth among enterprises for straight ahead, consolidation-oriented server virtualization projects, many organizations are looking to take their virtualization deployments to the next...

Managing the Virtual Image Life Cycle

More and more IT organizations are embracing virtual server and desktop infrastructure technologies. A December 2009 report from Forrester Research found that 71 percent of the companies it surveyed...

Zscaler Offers Secure Web Gateway as a Service

Zscaler Offers Secure Web Gateway as a Service by Matt Sarrel Dashboard The Zscaler Dashboard greets me after I log in to the administration portal. Traffic amounts overall, traffic by time, traffic...

Latest Posts

Komprise President Krishna Subramanian on Generative AI and Unstructured Data

I spoke with Krishna Subramanian, President of Komprise, about new findings from a survey of IT professionals about unstructured data management; the survey responses provide...

How Cisco is Addressing the Widening Skills Gap

Cisco takes a multifaceted approach to helping IT pros learn skills relevant to an increasingly digital world

What Are Large Language Models?

Large language models (LLMs) are advanced artificial intelligence models that use deep learning techniques, particularly a subset of neural networks known as transformers. Large language...

AI and Privacy Issues: What You Need to Know

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly pervasive in our lives. Learn about the privacy and AI concerns and issues that you should be aware of.

Why Cloud Will Remain Dominant: 4 Reasons

Cloud computing is having a moment. No longer an emerging trend, Gartner predicts public cloud service and user spending to grow nearly 22%, totaling...