Networking

How to Tell Whether an IT Vendor Sells ‘Solutions’ or Just Products

There's a subtle but important difference between IT products and IT solutions. Both have their rightful place, but buying a product when you need a solution--and vice versa--can be costly. Unfortunately, product-pushers aren't always easy

Microsoft Pushes Its Way Into Crowded Unified Communications Market

Microsoft's Lync has evolved into a serious unified communications competitor for enterprises looking to upgrade or adopt a UC platform. In a crowded field where players still struggle with interoperability issues, Lync's integration with

NASA Turns to Open Source Middleware for Human-to-Robot Communications

Data management is inherently tricky, but when it involves robots in spaceu2014communicating via a low-bandwidth intermittent linku2014it's trickier. NASA is leveraging Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems to help it solve that proble

5 Ways to Track In-Store Customer Behavior

There's a fine line between tracking the behaviors of customers in your brick-and-mortar store and spying on them. The technology discussed here uses data from customers' smartphones in conjunction with opt-in apps to offer patrons deals an

How Intel Plans to Destroy the Legacy Data Center

How Intel Plans to Destroy the Legacy Data Center

These days, and with the help of Cisco and EMC, Intel is dipping its toes into the networking and storage ends of the enterprise technology pool. Add this to Intel's server expertise and the data center of the future may be at hand.

6 Google Analytics Tips for Online Marketers and Small Business Owners

Google Analytics lets organizations of all shapes and sizes measure the performance of their websites. There's a lot of data in there--and even more that you can do with that data once you've extracted it. These tips will help you get start

16 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing Strategy

Web content strategy experts share their top tips for how to increase traffic to your Web or ecommerce site.

Smartphones? Dumb Move

At a time when even established smartphone players are struggling, HP and Lenovo announce their entry into the market. Right now, it seems like a dumb strategy.

What CIOs Need to Know About Software Defined Networking

Software defined networking applies the abstraction concepts of hardware virtualization to networking infrastructure. This works well for cloud implementations, which need significant configuration and planning. But SDN and network virtualization may

10 Competitors Cisco Couldn’t Kill Off

Some companies actually thrived while Cisco knocked off most of its competitors.