Hardware & Infrastructure: Page 6
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In the post-pandemic tech stack, where does the Chromebook fit?
Chromebook appeals to heads of IT due to its ease of use and management, but application compatibility can hinder wider enterprise deployments.
By Roberto Torres • March 26, 2021 -
Verizon Fios outage is the latest system failure to hinder remote work
Though disruptions are common, over preparing for worst-case scenarios can sink a business's bottom line.
By Katie Malone • Jan. 26, 2021 -
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Application delivery: While you were coding
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By Forsyth Alexander • Jan. 25, 2021 -
Gartner: 6 trends changing the I&O landscape
With remote work here to stay, infrastructure and operations leaders must start preparing now to adapt to a dispersed workforce.
By Katie Malone • Dec. 7, 2020 -
Digital business technology platforms: The all-in-one solution for company needs
Digital business platforms integrate and orchestrate enterprise IT systems as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates modernization.
By Katie Malone • Oct. 23, 2020 -
Desk phones flirted with extinction, but evolving interfaces keep them relevant
With the pandemic, vendors are exploring how they can change a phone's interface for their customers. The question has become, what kind of devices "deserve a spot" on someone's desk at home.
By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 18, 2020 -
Internet disruptions up 45% since January, ThousandEyes finds
If outages result from massive upticks in traffic, they can ripple through businesses, no matter their connection to the internet or an ISP.
By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 4, 2020 -
Microsoft Teams scales to 20K meeting participants
The company is capping interactive meetings at 1,000 participants, adding a "view only" option for large calls.
By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 3, 2020 -
Zoom's hardware push makes it an at-home fixture
As companies are adjusting their IT spend in real time, all cloud-based communication platforms-turned-hardware solutions have to prove their value during a recession.
By Samantha Schwartz • July 17, 2020 -
How American Express uses technology to support 65K workers, in office or remote
Infrastructure teams can augment the end-to-end experience with data and analytics to anticipate and quickly navigate hiccups.
By Naomi Eide • June 12, 2020 -
Amid layoffs, companies track down and repossess remote employees' data access, devices
HR, accounting and IT systems all intersect when workers are laid off. Physical offices made retrieval less complicated — "hand me your badge, hand me your laptop."
By Samantha Schwartz • June 5, 2020 -
Commission amends cyber recommendations to reflect COVID-19 vulnerabilities
Four new recommendations are divided between two sections specific to the pandemic: cybersecurity challenges and lessons in cyber preparedness.
By Samantha Schwartz • June 2, 2020 -
COBOL modernization roadmap: Patience, software and integrations
IT leaders can leverage modern technologies and software tools to get to higher digital ground, experts say.
By Roberto Torres • April 21, 2020 -
Google Cloud's latest purchase targets customers who want to keep mainframes and have the cloud too
Central to Google Cloud's interest in Cornerstone Technology? The healthcare and financial services companies still running mainframes.
By Naomi Eide • Feb. 20, 2020 -
The rise of cloud computing is having an impact on data center efficiency — and it's not great
In recent years, improvements to data center facility efficiency have flattened — or even slowed — as fewer computers do the actual work.
By Robert Walton • Dec. 18, 2019 -
BB&T sues tech vendor Hitachi Vantara over 2018 outage
The bank estimates the outage cost about $20 million in lower deposit service charges and higher expenses. BB&T is seeking $75,000 in damages, but a jury could increase that amount.
By Dan Ennis • Dec. 5, 2019 -
Will retailers avoid Black Friday website outages?
A new survey reveals nearly one-quarter of retail companies don't have a plan in place if their websites go down.
By Lisa Rowan • Nov. 26, 2019 -
Multicloud boosts infrastructure report card
The majority of IT professionals who say their strategy isn't A-worthy blamed an infrastructure unequipped for optimization and wasted hours on maintenance, according to an INAP survey.
By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 20, 2019 -
Hilton turned to the cloud to solve a troublesome room lock problem
With its Connected Room concept, Hilton is using digital products to fix pain points while improving guest experiences.
By Roberto Torres • Oct. 30, 2019 -
Rent the Runway shouldered the blame when a software bug hampered delivery
Rather than point fingers and push "blame" on the third party the company called it a "software issue internally," said CEO Jennifer Hyman.
By Naomi Eide • Oct. 25, 2019 -
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Perplexing IT questions, answered: Why does the office printer break so much?
IT teams can fix just about anything, but don't ask them to fix the printer.
By Roberto Torres • Oct. 18, 2019 -
Network performance falling short of business needs as infrastructure upgrades are forgotten
Users don’t thank IT for keeping the internet running — they just expect it to always work. When it goes down, all hell breaks loose.
By Naomi Eide • Sept. 9, 2019 -
Robots as a service: A low-risk path to warehouse automation?
RaaS revenues and deployments are rapidly eclipsing those from robot purchases, as end users discover more value in securing robotic solutions rather than just equipment.
By Craig Guillot • Sept. 4, 2019 -
10% tariffs on certain tech goods from China delayed to Dec. 15
Chinese imports not included on USTR's forthcoming list will still face 10% duties on Sept. 1, as President Donald Trump announced earlier this month.
By Shefali Kapadia • Updated Aug. 13, 2019 -
Growth drove LinkedIn to the public cloud. Unsurprisingly, it chose Microsoft Azure
The move from LinkedIn is aimed at scaling the company's infrastructure ahead of its next growth stage.
By Roberto Torres • July 25, 2019