Avaya, bankruptcy and the state of the changing communications market

Avaya’s bankruptcy is evidence that no matter the size, all companies are subject to changes in the market and strong, steady competition. 

By Justine Brown • May 23, 2017

FCC approves 'Restoring Internet Freedom' proposal

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says the industry should police itself, and that regulation keeps ISPs from expanding and upgrading, which in turn curbs job growth and hurts customers. 

By Justine Brown • May 19, 2017

Google's TPU chips pack 11.5 petaflops of processing power

Google, IBM and Intel know AI and machine learning hold huge potential for future profits. But cognitive computing applications also require enormous amounts of CPU power.

By Justine Brown • May 18, 2017

Report: Majority of enterprise IT spending dedicated to on-premise solutions

Cloud is growing, but traditional on-premise data centers are still the cornerstone of enterprise IT.  

By Justine Brown • May 17, 2017

Majority of email support for abolishing net neutrality rules reportedly spam

About 440,000 public submissions opposing the rules were found to be duplicated and used names from hacked email lists.

By Justine Brown • May 16, 2017

Intel upgrades wearable glasses for the enterprise

The company sees big things for wearable glasses in the enterprise, including productivity gains, improved worker safety, error elimination and reduced training costs.

By Justine Brown • May 11, 2017

How Microsoft's new cloud migration service takes a swing at Oracle

Oracle has dominated the database arena for years, but recently its hold on the market has slipped. A lot of its decline has to do with vendor lock-in. 

By Justine Brown • May 11, 2017

Late to the party, Microsoft Cortana call-enabled smart speaker to launch this fall

The Samsung-owned Harman Kardon's smart speaker powered by Cortana and featuring Skype calls allows Microsoft's digital assistant to break into the home digital assistant market. 

By Justine Brown • May 9, 2017

FCC suffers DDoS attacks against public comments website

The outage occurred just after "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" aired a segment on net neutrality, where he encouraged internet commenters to direct their "indiscriminate rage in a useful direction."

By Naomi Eide • May 8, 2017

Tablet market shipments drop for 10th-straight quarter

Apple remained the leader in the tablet market, though it saw its 13th-consecutive quarter of year-over-year shipment declines.

By Justine Brown • May 5, 2017

Antiquated crew-tracking system at the root of another major Delta tech debacle

Old systems and jammed phone lines overwhelmed Delta’s infrastructure after a series of thunderstorms hit Atlanta.  

By Justine Brown • May 4, 2017

Why Cisco bought SD-WAN startup Viptela for $610M

As the company shifts further away from its hardware roots, Cisco is rethinking its approach to networking. 

By Justine Brown • May 3, 2017

Companies rave about the cloud, but majority of workloads remain on-prem

Businesses still leverage on-premise data centers for a large amount of work, such as large scale transaction processing on mission-critical applications.

By Justine Brown • May 2, 2017

Trump creates task force to improve federal government IT

Many federal agencies are mired in legacy technology, spending almost 75% of the $80 billion federal IT budget on operations and maintenance of legacy systems.

By Justine Brown • May 2, 2017

Facebook split its network to help manage bandwidth for its 1.86B users

The new network configuration separates machine-to-machine and internet user traffic to reduce latency. 

By Justine Brown • May 2, 2017

As enterprise collaboration market changes, Aurea acquires Jive for $462M

Becoming part of Aurea will allow Jive to maintain its market share and further scale its offerings. 

By Justine Brown • May 2, 2017

Smartphone sales bounce back in Q1 after messy 2016

The smartphone market is alive and well despite a disastrous 2016 in which growth dropped into the low single digits for the first time. 

By Justine Brown • May 1, 2017

Cloudera IPOs, receiving 20% boost from investors

Initially priced at $15 per share, Cloudera had a strong finish Friday, trading at more than $18 per share.

By Justine Brown • May 1, 2017

FCC releases draft 'restoring internet freedom' rules, begins public comment period

The FCC chairman believes the industry should be allowed to police itself and regulation keeps ISPs from expanding and upgrading.

By Justine Brown • May 1, 2017

Technobabble: The case of the stolen identity

A colleague's stance was that he was not at risk, because he didn't matter to cybercriminals. Others could be victimized, but not him. And then just over 24 hours later ... 

By Naomi Eide • April 28, 2017

FCC chairman outlines plans to roll back net neutrality rules

Ajit Pai will first seek to cancel current rules that reclassify internet providers as "common carriers," also known as Title II.

By Justine Brown • April 27, 2017

Toshiba to split into 4 to protect businesses from Westinghouse fallout

The bankruptcy of nuclear developer Westinghouse threatens to sink the entire Japanese tech giant. 

By Peter Maloney , Naomi Eide • April 27, 2017

Mainframes are alive and well, persisting as the corporate workhorse

Nearly 61% of respondents said they have no plans to discontinue use of their mainframe in the foreseeable future, according to a new survey. 

By Justine Brown • April 25, 2017

How enterprises can facilitate IT, line of business collaboration for app development

Instead of relying on long processes, IT departments at the forefront of the app development curve are turning to collaborative models to design and deploy business apps.

By Jonathan Kaplan • April 25, 2017

IBM, Harman team up on voice-enabled 'cognitive rooms'

The tool could respond to voice commands and questions based on the context of the room.

By Justine Brown • April 24, 2017