The Internet of Things (IoT) has spurred a new world of connected devices. The most substantial impact of the data produced by this sea of connected devices will be the need to drive difference-making decisions for people and businesses. Computer systems will be pressured to analyze this data quickly effectively for timely decisions. “Perhaps the ...

Although they haven’t necessarily figured out what to do with the data they have or think they need, retailers are moving forward with Big Data. “We are amassing massive amounts of data,” said Rob Schmults , vice president of e-commerce at Talbots, Inc. “With all the devices and the ways that people interact with us, sometimes ...

Online merchants racked up $53.3 billion in sales during the 2014 holidays, an increase of 15 percent over the 2013, according to the Mobile Holiday Shopping Report Card. However, many e-commerce sites are having trouble handling this growth. Faced with the need to accommodate all kinds of desktop and mobile devices, they’re slowing down under higher ...

2014 has been a year of incredible innovation for the connected home. With lower hardware prices, increased bandwidth availability, abundance of cloud capacity, incredible sensor miniaturization, advances in wireless standards and an abundance of mobile devices and interfaces, the foundation is being laid for the Jetsons-style vision of the home. Here are the trends we’ve ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is generating big interest as a technology that makes networks programmable and less expensive to build and operate. SDN is achieved by separating the control and the data-forwarding functions of network equipment, and centralizing the control functions of multiple network elements. More generally, SDN is a framework for the automatic and dynamic ...

Curious about your coworker’s weird new glasses, or the little black wristband that has become more popular than the little black dress? Welcome to the wearables at work movement.  Wearable devices have a variety of benefits, from elevating fitness to improving business processes to increasing camaraderie in social groups and at work. We can now ...

In light of the recent string of high profile data breaches, information security is quickly becoming a front burner issue. According to a recent Trustwave survey of more than 800 IT professionals worldwide, 58 percent expect to be under more pressure to secure their organizations in 2014 than they were last year. Understanding how attackers ...

Big Data analytics encompasses far more than just reporting and dashboards; it’s about unearthing insights and opportunities, and answering questions that you didn’t already know. Big Data analytics won’t be successful unless you focus on the problems you’re trying to solve. Some persistent myths about Big Data stand in the way of organizations’ success, though. ...

Over the last decade, virtualization has revolutionized the data center by more effectively leveraging the CPU and memory resources on the server to increase hardware utilization and reduce operating expenses. Of course, as with all things performance-related, once a log jam is alleviated at one choke point, the bottleneck shifts to another part of the ...

In the past decade, Internet, mobile, and cloud technologies have redefined our lives and enabled a new generation of collaboration technology that is driving business value by allowing officer workers to interact around content more effectively than ever before. While effective cloud collaboration can increase an organization’s overall efficiency by allowing employees to communicate and ...