Monitoring is fine, but automation is quicker

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] Take the proverb "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush," combine it with the more modern "wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker," (from the sage Ozzy Osbourne), and then throw in a splash of network management. What do you get? Network monitoring is great, but automation gets it done. Automation [...]

What does 2018 hold for Federal IT?

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] The new year always brings predictions. In the federal IT space, it's no different. Predictions almost by a rule include both cool new tech (widespread adoption of biometric authentication methods) and less nerdy, but frightening prognostications like nearly one-third of the current federal workforce being retirement-eligible. The largest employer We'll get back to [...]

Fog computing expands critical remote infrastructure

[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] Several years ago one of the morning talks at CiscoLive was on fog computing. At the time the hype for cloud computing was well entrenched, so fog computing seemed to bring things back to earth with a more realistic promise of local processing of the massive amount of data expected from the ever-increasing [...]