US announces tariffs on $200B more goods from China

China promised to take "firm and forceful measures" in response, but it's unclear exactly what those measures will be. 

By Shefali Kapadia • July 12, 2018

How Starbucks moved 23K tablets for company-wide 'bias' training

The coffee chain was tasked with delivering information simultaneously to about 175,000 U.S. workers on three weeks' notice. 

By Samantha Schwartz , Riia O'Donnell • July 11, 2018

Top 10 myths about internet performance

Web applications deliver value through dynamic, personalized interactions and bidirectional content flows. If performance lags, rippling delays and interruptions follow.

By Ed Wright • July 2, 2018

What is WPA3 and why should businesses care?

The Wi-Fi protection protocol includes improved network resiliency, protective management frames for critical workloads and 192-bit cryptographic strength.

By Alex Hickey • June 26, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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