2015 Year of the Network Management Project?

Network monitoring and management projects tied for first place with disaster recovery and business continuity as the top IT initiatives for 2015 in a recent TechTarget poll of over 2,000 IT professionals worldwide. Coming in at 44% of the respondents, network monitoring and management projects have been increasing over the last two years, up from [...]

Short security memory dooming IoT?

HP released a report expressing fears that the IT industry has a nasty habit of forgetting what they've learned security-wise each time it tackles the next big tech challenge. With the increasing excitement about the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT), hidden dangers are lurking. Daniel Miessler, the head of the research team at [...]

Will SDN kill the networking star?

Most early stage technology trends generate some bold proclamations of their impact. Software Defined Networking is no different. While it will impact the day-to-day job of a network admin, it won't replace them entirely. Jim Duffy had a nice article in Network World where he debunked some of the over-the-top claims of SDN, and had [...]