Blueprints

by Paul Morville, Founder and VP of Products, Confer Few things are more disappointing or costly than deploying a product that fails to live up to the vendor’s claims or...

by Leon Adato, Head Geek, SolarWinds As IT professionals, we know our way around data centers like the backs of our hands. But what consistently surprises me when I speak...

by Boris Goldberg, co-founder of Cloudyn Predictions from 2014 suggested that enterprises would flock to the cloud, which actually happened. The spectacular growth that AWS has already enjoyed along with...

by Dirk Gates, executive chairman and founder, Xirrus An all-wireless world is within our grasp. No matter where we go or what device we are on, connectivity is an expectation....

by Shannon Weyrick, Director of Engineering for NS1 Over the past 25 years there have been dramatic shifts in how companies deliver websites and applications. The pervasiveness of globally distributed...

by Rod Bagg, vice president of customer support at Nimble Storage As more businesses strive to become data-driven, business leaders will rely heavily on IT teams to easily access, manage...

by Michael Murphy, CTO for North America, Nokia Networks In 2014, I suggested that 2015 would be an inflection point due to the start of serious 5G activity and the...

by Roger Levy, VP of Product at MariaDB In 2015, CIOs focused on DevOps and similar technologies such as containers as a way to improve time to value. During 2016,...

by Vincent Weafer, VP of Intel Security’s McAfee Labs, Intel Corporation A five-year look ahead at how cybersecurity is likely to evolve Clouds, devices, and sophistication are three of the...

by Shawn Rogers, Chief Research Officer, Dell Statistica As advanced analytics continue the trajectory from buzzworthy idea to business imperative, we will see companies and consumers alike beginning to optimize...

by Elad Rave, CEO of Teridion The cloud is no longer a luxury for enterprises, it is a must have. With more complex applications entering the enterprise, like video streaming...

by Tom Kelly, CEO, AccelOps Why do armies set up look-outs all around their camps? Why do people read their horoscopes and shake magic eight-balls? Simple: they want to see...

by Carolyn Raab, VP of Product Management at Corsa In 2015, service providers, telcos and national research and engineering consortiums went through a major transition as they began implementing software-defined...