Category: Tech
With a next-gen session border controller, Sansay meets the needs of a rapidly growing market. Sansay recently announced a next-generation session border controller (SBC) and developer program designed to help service providers create enterprise- and carrier-grade WebRTC applications and services. In their announcement, Sansay pointed out that, according to Google, more than 1 billion PCs, […]
Big Data jumps to the cloud Big Data-as-a-Service offers quick, inexpensive, targeted analytics Kevin Walker’s sales team was buried under information. Internal records, news reports, third-party data sources. Take a simple question like “Which customer should I call first?” The sales team might want to reach out to a customer who has just hired a […]
EMC is giving enterprises greater control over how corporate data gets distributed and to whom, plus more mobile capabilities, with the latest update to its Syncplicity service. When employees distribute links to data in Syncplicity via email, IT administrators can regulate what addresses go in the “to” field and force the employee to set up […]
Melds existing Connected Industries, Energy and Physical Security into one business unit Cisco has formed a business group to specifically address the Internet of Things opportunity — sensors, industrial electronics, etc. — which the company reiterated this week is a $14.4 trillion market. Last week, company officials said it represents $613 billion in profits in […]
President of Google Enterprise says 58% of Fortune 500 are using some Google tools already, and new cloud products are encouraging conversion Google Enterprise is making inroads on many fronts, winning converts to everything from its productivity tools to its cloud offerings. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with President of […]
Wi-Fi is blossoming in the enterprise as organizations find new ways to leverage the wireless infrastructure and workers, having benefited from mobility, demand increased range and better performance (and support for all those devices they are bringing in from home). The industry is responding in kind, introducing new products and technologies, including gigabit Wi-Fi, and […]
Black Hat presentation from Georgia Tech researchers to show malicious proof of concept IoS devices are vulnerable to malware coming from a malicious charger according to researchers from Georgia Tech. The researchers, who will be presenting their proof-of-concept charger known as Mactans at the upcoming Black Hat security conference, say: “despite the plethora of defense […]
IT channel power panels, how-to sessions highlight conference agenda DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., May 22, 2013 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — CompTIA, the non-profit association for the information technology (IT) industry, today unveiled new additions to the conference agenda for ChannelCon 2013, the IT channel’s premier annual partnering and training event. Registration is now open for the conference, […]
CASP is ‘toughest technical test’ in network security from CompTIA The Department of Defense (DOD) has begun including the security certification known as “CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner” (CASP) in its accepted roster of industry-based security exams to prove technical skills, the trade group says. CompTIA came up with CASP last year and it’s the toughest […]
400G in the short-term; longer-term, expect Petabit Ethernet in 40 years Internet traffic will quadruple in five years and the number of mobile Internet connections will exceed the world’s population by 2017, according to Cisco research. The number of Internet users will be a quarter billion greater this year than last and almost three times […]