The Open Compute Project is an initiative started by Facebook to open up computer hardware, especially server and networking systems, to companies that aren’t giant tech vendors. This effort was meant to mirror the open-source movement in the software world. Since then, OCP has grown in both membership and mindshare and has produced standards that ...

The world of computer networking is changing. What used to be the territory of massive vendors has broken up with smaller players staking their claim to new ground. The Open Compute Project (OCP) supports these innovators with open-source software and now, hardware. As the Internet of Things (IoT) matures and people reach for their smartphones ...

Networking hardware represents the bones of the Internet, a necessary support with everything else built around it. Traditionally, this hardware has been big, expensive, and available from only a few massive vendors. That’s changing. The Open Compute Project has worked to make hardware more accessible, and its efforts are paying off. Now, networking hardware is becoming a ...

There comes a point where normal computing just isn’t good enough. Be it facial recognition, tracking a person’s habits, answering questions concerning thousands of documents, or understanding common language commands, eventually a business will need the power of artificial intelligence. These Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems will be core to business needs in the future, and ...

Society today runs on information, and the tech world is no small part of this data revolution. However, it’s easy to forget that these programs and online services people use every day all run on black boxes, blinking away in a room somewhere. This is the data center, the core of computing technology in the ...

The modern tech world is defined by a whirlwind of new communication technologies, from text messaging to video conferences, voice on demand and more. Workers use these technologies in their daily lives and expect them in the workplace. Combining the torrent of new communication methods into one common business solution is the goal of Unified ...

In the tech business, Unified Communications (UC) is the integration of real-time communication services like text chat, voice, mobility features, video conferencing and the web with static services, such as voice mail and fax. Essentially, it brings together all the ways businesses talk into one cooperative whole. As workers and customers go mobile, UC has ...

Customers don’t want to visit a store; they don’t want to make a phone call. These days, customers want to push a button on some digital device to buy a product, and the company that can make that happen will get their business. Unfortunately for companies, customers and employees aren’t using just one device, but ...

Business has changed. The old way to run a company involved getting all your technology under one roof with the people and the hardware to drive it all. Now, cloud services and Internet business apps allow companies to build an infrastructure completely outside their own walls, saving time and money. Google is one of the ...

Tech business is built on the power of data, but not every company is in the tech business. Most just use tech and networking to run the infrastructure that handles whatever they really do for a living. That said, even non-tech companies are discovering the power of data as they upgrade old systems to be ...