Hardware & Infrastructure: Page 13
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Opinion
Beware of Dante's (ERP) Inferno
Despite countless horror stories, organizations still tend to underestimate the complexity associated with implementing ERP.
By Shawn Stamp • June 25, 2018 -
AWS takes home gold in IaaS, PaaS worldwide
With the exception of the APAC region, Microsoft swept all No. 2 spots while Google took home No. 3 rankings in worldwide and regional leadership.
By Alex Hickey • June 22, 2018 -
Deep Dive
Under the sea: Microsoft's submarine data centers
Cloud vendors are already using wind and solar solutions to conserve energy consumed by their servers. The next frontier, however, is in the ocean's waves.
By Samantha Schwartz • June 21, 2018 -
Room service, please: Alexa checks into hospitality
Because of hysteria around Alexa's privacy, there will be parts of the market with a continued "perception or misconception that Alexa is always listening."
By Samantha Schwartz • June 19, 2018 -
USB-C promises to become universal port fall short when it comes to compatibility
While a USB-C can run numerous features, users are finding the ports do not permit full functionality on a device.
By Samantha Schwartz • June 13, 2018 -
Big steps since 2017, but plenty of improvements left for top cloud vendors
Here's what Gartner had to say about the six vendors that made the cut for the 2018 Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant.
By Alex Hickey • May 31, 2018 -
When 'everything is on fire,' chaos engineers rush to save tech infrastructure
During a network outage, they are the ones who "save the day," said Kolton Andrus, CEO and co-founder of Gremlin.
By Samantha Schwartz • May 30, 2018 -
Gartner drops 8 IaaS vendors off Magic Quadrant in favor of broader market players
While AWS, Microsoft and Google still lead, there were two notable differences from last year: only six vendors made the cut and market boundaries shifted to reflect more opportunities for vendors.
By Alex Hickey • May 30, 2018 -
US House bill would direct Commerce Department to study IoT devices
The SMART IoT Act would be the "first step" toward formalizing the federal government's relationship with the burgeoning industry.
By Chris Teale • May 24, 2018 -
All in the family: Meltdown, Spectre variants found
Variant 4 takes advantage of "speculative bypass," which grants a hacker access to stored memory in a CPU's stack.
By Samantha Schwartz • May 22, 2018 -
Shorter IoT battery creating more e-waste
The use of specialized, nonconforming parts for standard repairs contributes to the shortened lifespan of devices and, in turn, e-waste.
By Samantha Schwartz • May 21, 2018 -
After 50 years of Intel, Moore's Law is alive and well — sort of
For some experts, the pace of Moore's Law is not sustainable — technology innovation cannot maintain an exponential pace.
By Naomi Eide • May 18, 2018 -
No 'definite plan' to fix IRS hardware systems
Churn in federal CIO leadership and short tenures have held off long-term modernization efforts across agencies.
By Alex Hickey • April 19, 2018 -
Microsoft offers IoT solution as answer to hardware security shortcomings
To take “cybersecurity from an art to a science,” Microsoft is engineering a more secure edge with Azure Sphere, according to President Brad Smith.
By Samantha Schwartz • April 17, 2018 -
How AppNexus is upgrading storage infrastructure to get ready for Kubernetes
A reduction in the number of servers being used translates to a reduction in spending, boosting the bottom line for the online advertising company.
By Alex Hickey • April 13, 2018 -
Tyson Foods using tax break to work on IT infrastructure
Moving from analog to digital will elevate Tyson's performance in the supply chain and introduce more transparency between products and customers.
By Samantha Schwartz • April 12, 2018 -
Why Microsoft is beefing up its IoT and AI cloud offerings
CEO Satya Nadella has hammered out a roadmap for the company centered on enterprise clients with a focus on artificial intelligence technologies.
By Alex Hickey • April 12, 2018 -
US and China tiptoe around a trade war: What's tech to do?
After the first set of American tariffs on Chinese imports took effect Friday to the tune of $34 million, China quickly levied retaliatory tariffs of equal measure.
By Alex Hickey • Updated July 6, 2018 -
Google, Microsoft navigate southern hemisphere to grow cloud network
As Google boosts its global footprint in the cloud market, it's still missing from China — a market Alibaba dominates but AWS and Azure are slowly tapping.
By Alex Hickey • April 4, 2018 -
Nvidia, Arm partner on deep learning chips for the IoT
The partnership was announced a day after news of Google, Samsung and Qualcomm joining forces with around 80 other tech companies for an open-source chip design.
By Alex Hickey • March 28, 2018 -
Cities that don't embrace smart tech risk becoming a 'digital Rust Belt'
How cities use data to innovate and solve issues for residents is becoming more critical. After all, "data is the new bacon."
By Chris Teale • March 28, 2018 -
Microsoft trails Cisco in the collaboration market even after a cloud boost
Despite so much of enterprise collaboration turning to the cloud, traditional, on-site solutions remain the ones to beat.
By Samantha Schwartz • March 28, 2018 -
Atlassian moved its entire infrastructure to AWS for cloud-native customers
The collaboration company's old infrastructure simply did not support cloud-based customers, which make up 75% of all new customers.
By Samantha Schwartz • March 20, 2018 -
Intel CEO: We're addressing Meltdown, Spectre flaws with hardware 'partitions'
As for software updates, 100% of impacted Intel products from the last five years have been issued microcode updates.
By Samantha Schwartz • March 16, 2018 -
McDonald's mobile app triggers worker discontent
Employees say the new ordering technology is causing more trouble than it's worth, with chaos ensuing alongside self-service kiosks, mobile app ordering and traditional checkouts.
By Robert Williams • March 15, 2018
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