What is Edge Networking, and How Can Companies Leverage Its Benefits?
Almost anything we do today requires, at one point or another, a specific degree of information processing and storage. Whether it’s our personal computers, appliances, or cars, there will be some amount of information manufacturers build into these devices to enhance our experience with the product. However, as users, businesses, and applications are becoming more […]
An Introduction to Edge Data Centers for Businesses
With today’s technologies becoming increasingly dynamic, the availability of data is beyond doubt one of the most important building blocks of performance. Instant availability is key for time-sensitive applications that are becoming widespread and intensively used. To make processing quicker and easier, computing isn’t centralized only in the cloud anymore. The edge data centers takes […]
Biggest Challenges of the Data Center Industry
As the world keeps evolving in the direction of digital transformation, a number of pivotal data center challenges are arising along the line. With the recent rise of AI applications, the IoT, and edge demand, the industry has to put an increased effort into coping with the immense volumes of data generated each minute. Keeping […]
Generative AI and Data Center Transformation
The recent soar of large language models has created quite some excitement, poking a hole through reality as we know it. These models have reached a large number of people, enabling the use of generative AI for various purposes all over the world. And while a few science fiction writers have anticipated its appearance, there […]
What Are the Primary Benefits of Industrial IoT (IIoT)
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a subset of the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT is the collection of computers, devices, and vehicles that are embedded with software, sensors, and other means to transmit and exchange data through the Internet. It allows many objects to be accessed and controlled remotely by storing information […]
What Businesses Should Know About Cognitive Computing
Both cognitive computing and artificial intelligence are part of the next big supercomputing developments. The two terms are different. Artificial intelligence (AI) is concerned with results – simulating how humans would make a decision. Cognitive computing is concerned with the process – how humans think and reason. Cognitive computing doesn’t make the final decision, the […]
The Rapid Global Growth Interconnect Bandwidth
As cloud services and distributed networks grow, and the Internet of Things (IoT) expands, the need to be connected across multiple platforms in multiple locations is constantly growing. Standard bandwidth is a metric that measures how much data can be sent over a network. Interconnection bandwidth is a metric that measures how ready a location […]
Instructive Lesson From The Amazon S3 Outage
On Tuesday, February 28th, 2017, an Amazon employee made a typo during a routine billing system repair and, rather than taking only a few servers offline, instead took down a significant (but still unspecified) number of the nearly 150,000 unique websites and apps hosted or supported by the Amazon cloud computing S3 service. Affected sites […]
Edge Computing – The Next Multi-Billion Tech Market
Edge computing is a new form of computing technology boasting wonderful advantages, which are enticing new companies and new capital. Edge computing is a contrast to centralized networks where data is less secure and value is decreased. With edge computing applications, data, and services are pushed to the outer boundaries of a network—the edges. Edge […]
2017 DDoS Attack Trends
As trends go, 2016 had quite a few positive and negative ones in IT. One of the most prevalent was distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and that progression is expected to continue through the New Year. Some of the specifics will change as prevention strategies improve in efficacy, but that simply means the DDoS […]