Businesses must be able to scale their connectivity on demand to meet precise bandwidth requirements for running various types of workloads. AI modeling, massive data ingestion, autonomous driving (AD) testing, and other modern use cases are driving up demand for higher connection bandwidth to ingest, filter and analyze massive volumes of data—whether on-premises or in the cloud. Without adequate bandwidth, uploading and filtering data can take weeks or months before companies can begin to analyze it for critical insights. Starting today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced AWS Direct Connect ..read more

Today is Earth Day, with this year’s theme being “Planet vs. Plastics.” This is an opportunity to pause and reflect on how we can make smarter decisions about the materials we use—whether that means plastics, metals or others—to reduce our impact on planetary and human health. In the IT industry, responsible asset disposal is an important part of this equation. To keep up with the rapid pace of innovation and new customer demands, today’s businesses are transitioning to higher-density solutions and upgrading to the latest and greatest versions of memory, disks and processors. As this happens ..read more

In the digital economy, the companies that best manage their data will be the ones that thrive. That said, modern data management is a complex, multifaceted endeavor. Businesses must account for: Acquiring the right data—from internal systems, business partners and customers Segmenting and prioritizing data based on latency and security requirements Moving the right data at the right speed to balance performance and costs Storing data in the right locations—securely and cost-efficiently Processing data in the right locations Keeping data protected, whether it’s in use, in transit or at rest Th ..read more

In recent years, SD-WAN has become a well-established technology in enterprise networking, offering greater flexibility, scalability and cost effectiveness than traditional WANs relying on MPLS connections. As a result, the SD-WAN market has been growing and is expected to continue growing for the next several years. According to Gartner®, “the SD-WAN market is forecast to generate a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.6% in end-user spending from 2022 through 2027. There are plenty of compelling reasons why the SD-WAN market continues to blossom. Traditional MPLS-based networks can be mo ..read more

Web3 promises to transform the way we interact, transact and collaborate online — poised to redefine the rules of engagement for a more equitable, efficient and resilient global ecosystem. One of the key issues that web3 aims to solve is the centralization of the Internet. Web3 envisions a more decentralized and democratized internet, where users have greater control over their data and digital assets. By leveraging blockchain, smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi), web3 seeks to reverse the trend of internet privatization and shift power back to individuals. Interconnection and dig ..read more

When we say the word “latency,” most people have a specific definition in mind: the delay that occurs while a system waits for a packet to finish moving over a network. This definition is technically correct, but it’s also incomplete. There are multiple types of latency, and this definition only accounts for one of them: network latency. As digital infrastructure has expanded to circle the globe and applications have become more distributed, it’s understandable that many people would be so focused on solving for network latency that they’d fail to consider any other kind. We believe it’s time ..read more

Most people don’t think about data centers in the course of their day-to-day lives. Even as they use the internet for entertainment, directions, banking, shopping and more, they don’t consider that there are physical buildings somewhere that enable all of that. The term “cloud computing” actually has some believing all of that “magic” is happening somewhere out in the atmosphere. Since today is International Data Center Day, it’s the perfect opportunity to share the integral role data centers play in our modern society and economy. Data centers enable everything from content streaming and soci ..read more

In today’s hyperconnected landscape, businesses worldwide need to reinvent themselves with digital-first strategies to increase opportunities and close profit performance gaps. CIOs are facing tremendous pressure to balance enterprise-wide agility and digital transformation, while juggling an increasingly distributed workforce, complex IT ecosystems, increasing IT/OT convergence, and inflation. As businesses become increasingly interconnected, they are under strain to ensure secure and efficient data exchange and collaboration – which has repercussions on data sovereignty, privacy, interoperab ..read more

While the potential benefits of AI speak for themselves, enterprises need a measured, strategic approach to pursue those benefits without placing their valuable intellectual property at risk. This is why many businesses are starting to build their own AI models, host those models on private infrastructure, and use only proprietary datasets to train them. This concept is known as private AI. Many enterprises now recognize that when they feed sensitive data into public AI services such as ChatGPT, that data gets trained into the model. In turn, this means the data could be exposed to anyone who ..read more

Modern distributed infrastructure increasingly demands more flexible, dynamic networks. And with network threats becoming more frequent and costly, organizations need a backbone network that’s highly secure and reliable. As IT architectures evolve and next-generation technologies are embedded into more of our infrastructure, networking is evolving too. The backbone network plays an essential role in digital infrastructure. As the core network that interconnects various networks around the world, it is foundational to your entire infrastructure, helping to ensure seamless connectivity. With inc ..read more