The massive growth of Big Data and analytics are major contributors to the fast-changing network environment, but several new studies highlight other drivers — both at home and away, and points in between — of tomorrow’s networks. The home and vehicle automation markets are also […]
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Mark Twain is rumored to have once said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”. And if you’ve ever been to San Francisco any time of the year, you’ll know that one of the distinguishing characteristics of the city is […]
Winston Churchill once said, “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried”. In essence, he meant that democracy has a lot of faults, yet we have not found anything that is better. Europe […]
Although there are currently at least 16 acronyms for M2M for the networking ecosystem, the only one that counts is Machine-to-Machine and it continues to draw increasing interest. In fact, the latest reports show that this interest is accelerating, and while the most recent numbers […]
The creation of Hadoop in 2005, with its ability to store and process Big Data, helped companies and governments to identify anomalies and trends in the huge volumes of user activity data they collect as more and more transactions and interactions go on-line, even in […]
There is an increasing move to connect anything and everything to the internet. From fridges to glasses, fitness arm-bands to surveillance systems, the Internet of Everything (IoE) is becoming a reality. Many of these connected devices do very little, and indeed may just be a […]
Many organizations seem to believe that their IT equipment is valuable. They spend inordinate amounts of money applying security to their servers, storage, network switches, and appliances and then assume that, as they have done this, they are suddenly a secure company. Even where there […]
Between the upcoming RSA Conference 2014 and Mobile World Congress 2014 my inbox has been overflowing with EVERYTHING security and mobility, but buried in that cornucopia of marketing hype and hysteria were a couple of new surveys that reinforce why networking managers do not get […]
I attended a round table with Actian recently, one of a series it has been running around the world. Nominally on the subject of business analysis, it seems that at one of the US events, a comment that data scientists would become the next generation […]
Depending upon your perspective, it’s been a really bad or a really good few weeks for security. However, while the outlook remains bleak — both for the existing and pending victims, and for the insurance industry — there is a ray of hope with a […]