2014 has been a year of incredible innovation for the connected home. With lower hardware prices, increased bandwidth availability, abundance of cloud capacity, incredible sensor miniaturization, advances in wireless standards and an abundance of mobile devices and interfaces, the foundation is being laid for the Jetsons-style vision of the home. Here are the trends we’ve ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is generating big interest as a technology that makes networks programmable and less expensive to build and operate. SDN is achieved by separating the control and the data-forwarding functions of network equipment, and centralizing the control functions of multiple network elements. More generally, SDN is a framework for the automatic and dynamic ...

Curious about your coworker’s weird new glasses, or the little black wristband that has become more popular than the little black dress? Welcome to the wearables at work movement.  Wearable devices have a variety of benefits, from elevating fitness to improving business processes to increasing camaraderie in social groups and at work. We can now ...

In light of the recent string of high profile data breaches, information security is quickly becoming a front burner issue. According to a recent Trustwave survey of more than 800 IT professionals worldwide, 58 percent expect to be under more pressure to secure their organizations in 2014 than they were last year. Understanding how attackers ...

Big Data analytics encompasses far more than just reporting and dashboards; it’s about unearthing insights and opportunities, and answering questions that you didn’t already know. Big Data analytics won’t be successful unless you focus on the problems you’re trying to solve. Some persistent myths about Big Data stand in the way of organizations’ success, though. ...

Over the last decade, virtualization has revolutionized the data center by more effectively leveraging the CPU and memory resources on the server to increase hardware utilization and reduce operating expenses. Of course, as with all things performance-related, once a log jam is alleviated at one choke point, the bottleneck shifts to another part of the ...

In the past decade, Internet, mobile, and cloud technologies have redefined our lives and enabled a new generation of collaboration technology that is driving business value by allowing officer workers to interact around content more effectively than ever before. While effective cloud collaboration can increase an organization’s overall efficiency by allowing employees to communicate and ...

Most good rivalries begin with some sort of differences, and OpenStack developers are beginning to side with either Ceph or Swift when it comes to choosing a storage solutions. Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide highly scalable object block- and file-based storage under a unified system, excellent performance, reliability ...

Communication, collaboration and clarity are prerequisites for business success. However, achieving a state of collaboration “zen” – in which a company communicates effectively internally and externally – requires rethinking the way we work. Consider: We live and work in the age of “information overload.” We read hundreds of emails a day on disparate devices, work ...

The benefits of migrating IT services to the cloud are well known and compelling, but many enterprises list privacy and security concerns as the number one reason to hesitate. Privacy and the cloud do not have to be conflicting goals. Here are four things companies should really focus on with respect to privacy and security ...