Managed service provider Masergy Communications Inc. today announced two new offerings in its software-defined wide-area network portfolio that make it easier for people to work remotely. The new services fall under the umbrella brand of “SD-WAN Work From Anywhere solutions” and extend Masergy’s current managed service to the millions of people now working out of the ...

As Nvidia Corp.’s GPU Technology Conference kicked off Monday, one of the more interesting product announcements was the introduction of data processing units, also known as DPUs.  Nvidia is widely known as the market leader in graphics processing units and recently announced plans to acquire Arm Ltd. to move into central processing units or CPUs. ...

Inclusiveness has become an important part of organizations around the world. There has been a strong focus on racial and gender issues but other groups are often overlooked. In particular, people who have physical or mental disabilities are among the groups often not considered when discussing inclusion plans. If we are going to live in ...

It’s fair to say that the way enterprise security has been done in the past has not worked, is not working and will likely never work. Evidence of this is that it currently takes almost 100 days to find a breach. If the security team is lucky enough to discover it, the source is often ...

Organizations around the world are preparing for a post-pandemic workplace by investing in networking technologies that support the changing needs of employees — and that’s having a profound impact on the network. Recently, ZK Research conducted a Work From Anywhere Study. One of the questions asked if the COVID-19 pandemic had raised the value of the network ...

The term “Shadow IT” is used to describe a scenario where workers buy information technology products and use them in the workplace. Shadow IT is most often associated with cloud services such as file sharing, collaboration tools and other applications where the worker has chosen a product they prefer over the company standard, or perhaps there ...

Businesses have been steadily shifting their applications to the cloud for the better part of a decade, but the COVID-19 pandemic has certainly hastened the move — and caused businesses that were on the fence to fall to the side of cloud as it greatly simplifies working from home. The subsegment of cloud that has ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed workforce dynamics from office-based locations to home working and its impact will be long-lasting. A recent ZK Research Work From Home Study asked the question, “Once the stay-at-home orders are lifted, how long do you think it will take before a critical mass of your own organization’s office employees ...

Practically everything shifted online during the COVID-19 pandemic, including how people work, shop and interact with others. The crisis forced companies to accelerate digital initiatives that would have otherwise taken years to complete. Many are adopting new tools and evolving their tech stacks to reflect user behavior online. For example, many retailers are able to ...

For decades, Cisco Systems Inc.’s stated purpose has been to use technology to “Change the way we work, live, learn and play.” Sure, the taglines have changed as Cisco has been known for things like “Empowering the Internet Generation,” welcoming us to the “Human Network” and reminding us that “Tomorrow Starts Here.” Recently, the tagline evolved ...