Enterprise security today demands not just a next-generation firewall, but intrusion detection and endpoint monitoring. As businesses migrate to a hybrid computing model comprised of on-premises and cloud operations, a solution with baked-in security that can deliver these and other key features across a complex infrastructure has genuine appeal. The Secure SD-WAN offered by Open Systems ...

Artificial intelligence has propelled many enterprise sectors, but perhaps none faster than the field of robotic process automation, or RPA. A recent Gartner Inc. report found that the RPA market grew 63% in 2018, making it the fastest-growing enterprise software category. And the market leader, according to Gartner, is UiPath Inc. Founded out of Romania ...

Zscaler Inc. has an interesting message for security professionals: Don’t bother with securing the network. Worry instead about securing user access to the right applications wherever the data resides. The company’s flagship services deliver fast, secure connections between user and application regardless of location, network or device. “The network is an important transport, but it ...

Investors are pouring a lot of money flow into bitcoin, but participants in the cryptocurrency market may be missing the real story: Ethereum is about to reinvent itself, and the impact could have far-reaching consequences throughout the enterprise world. Released in 2015, Ethereum has grown to become the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. It differs ...

There are at least 50,000 professional skills in the world, according to recent data provided by LinkedIn, and the number one hard skill that companies need most in 2019 is cloud computing. That single fact should send students rushing to fill classes in the field, yet there are currently 700,000 unfilled information technology jobs in ...

During the economic recession of 2008 and 2009, brought on by a collapse of the U.S. real estate market, business mergers and acquisitions were few and far between. Uncertainty in the stock market left what few offers there were as cash-only deals, a rare opportunity. Yet, one tech company not only got acquired in 2009 for ...

When voice, video, instant messaging, and video conferencing come together on a converged Internet Protocol network, the complexity meter rises fast. And when there’s a problem with even one of these services, finding and fixing it can quickly become a major challenge. NetScout Systems Inc.’s nGeniusONE solution is designed to provide a cure for whatever ...

Application programming interfaces or APIs are fast becoming like air and water. Businesses need them to survive. That basic point was driven home recently for Brian Pagano, senior director of Catalysts at Axway Inc., which provides cloud integration and API and identity management software. and former global platform strategist at Google LLC. He recently spoke ...

Nine days into the third quarter of 2019, IBM Corp. closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat Inc. Now that Red Hat is officially part of the IBM fold, what are the expectations of both companies by customers as the deal takes hold? That was the central focus of a recent survey conducted by ...

NetApp Inc.’s latest product moves illustrate the realization that, when it comes to meeting customer needs in a hybrid world, it’s all about choice. The storage solutions company recently announced new cloud-based services that offer customers choice of on-premises or cloud infrastructure. NetApp also launched a service that automates Kubernetes deployment within a hyperconverged infrastructure platform. ...