Do businesses need — or want — wireless networks to be a utility?

Whether or not the plan to nationalize 5G is still being considered, it raises important questions about how the digital infrastructure the economy increasingly relies on is built, who runs it and what forces shape its development.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 31, 2018

How the chip industry is keeping calm during a 'Meltdown'

The scope of the flaws outpaces Intel's ability to help all customers recover. But what happened leading up to Intel's second hold on security patches?

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 30, 2018

Intel will release Meltdown-resistant patches later this year

The company remains cautious about the financial impact the vulnerabilities could have on 2018 earnings. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 29, 2018

Maersk reconstructed entire IT infrastructure in 10 days following Nyetya

From the time of the attack in June to mid-August, the company had to effectively shut down various global Maersk Group operations. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 29, 2018

Failure of a major cloud provider would cost $15B. But could that happen?

Service disruptions can cause an hour or two of downtime, but Lloyd's projections of three to six days is unheard of.

By Naomi Eide • Jan. 26, 2018

Intel advised companies to wait, but 70% already began Meltdown and Spectre patches

Since administering patches, more than one-third of those organizations experienced performance issues, according to a Spiceworks report.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 25, 2018

Please hold: Intel wants customers to again wait on Meltdown and Spectre patches

Intel is abandoning its initial patches after finding a "root cause" for reboot issues. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 22, 2018

Microsoft, Google start to do more than chip away at AWS' lead

The two tech giants reportedly carved out 6% of AWS' market share over the course of a year, and future investment plans may take a bigger bite out.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 17, 2018

Cisco augments IoT platform with software, analytics

"The value of the data should directly reflect to how much security you have in your system," said Dan Kent, Cisco's public sector CTO.

By Alex Hickey • Jan. 16, 2018

Two US cities lead world colocation market

More than one-quarter of the global market is held between Washington, D.C., New York, Tokyo, London and Shanghai.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 16, 2018

Wait! Intel asks customers to delay security patches for Meltdown, Spectre

The company is issuing a new patch for its initial firmware updates, which caused customers complaints about "higher system reboots."

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 12, 2018

The good, the bad and the not-so-work-related: CES 2018 in review

In many ways, CES embodies the spirit of innovation and triumphs in technology. But in other cases, it is a platform for technological excess.

By Naomi Eide , Samantha Schwartz , Alex Hickey • Jan. 12, 2018

Upgrades to enterprise software could free up workers in 2018

Personalization, machine learning and push notifications promise to make routine tasks less time intensive.

By Valerie Bolden-Barrett • Jan. 11, 2018

Microsoft's patches for Meltdown and Spectre on pause after becoming 'unbootable'

The patches only mitigate the risk and are causing a blue screen of death for some customers.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 10, 2018

Alexa to make its way onto Windows PCs. But what about Cortana?

Adding Alexa to Windows devices is unrelated to Amazon and Microsoft's partnership announcement last fall. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 9, 2018

Forever young: Chip extends battery life of smart home devices to 10 years

While many smart devices are in the form of household appliances, the transition to enterprise is already underway. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 9, 2018

There can only be one: Microsoft and Amazon square off for top IaaS, PaaS provider

More than $100 billion in revenue for service providers came from cloud-based IaaS, PaaS, hosted private cloud services and enterprise SaaS.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 8, 2018

Microsoft, Google among companies having a 'Meltdown' following widespread bug

The attention to this "speculative execution"-style attack is forcing major tech companies to put out patches to protect their consumers.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 4, 2018

Back to the circuit board: Chip flaws leave industry scrambling with little recourse

Intel is working with competitors like AMD and ARM to develop a solution to a chip-level security flaw, which targets everything from computers to servers to cell phones.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 4, 2018

Cisco is still the top enterprise IT infrastructure vendor

While the emergence of the cloud has changed how companies spend on IT, enterprise IT infrastructure spending will continue to rise through 2022.

By Naomi Eide • Jan. 4, 2018

AWS and Salesforce may say 'Sayonara' to Oracle database

Larry Ellison's comments reportedly prompted the moves to create internal databases apart from Oracle's more established one.

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 3, 2018

Will HR cover AI biases? 5 AI trends for 2018

Artificial intelligence is part of the new wave of technology. Just like the cloud's emergence, those who fail to implement AI now will struggle later. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Jan. 3, 2018

How the Salvation Army is upgrading its storage technology

The Western Territory of the charity recently upgraded its storage infrastructure to a flash-based server system, but the long haul still has the organization looking toward the cloud.

By Alex Hickey • Dec. 22, 2017

Santa's migrating his toy workshop to the cloud

At the North Pole, elves were suffering and couldn't keep up with the high volume of orders. Because Santa failed to check the list twice, they were filling orders from Christmases long past, leading to inefficiency and wasted work.

By Naomi Eide • Dec. 21, 2017

Intel's 'new normal' puts data at the center of everything

The chipmaker's 50th anniversary is in July, and CEO Brian Krzanich said the company is closer than ever to becoming a "50/50 company," where half its revenue comes from PCs and the other half from new growth markets. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Dec. 21, 2017