Special Features

From Fortune 500 enterprises to very small businesses, every organization has been thrust into the future faster than prognosticators dared dream. What factors will determine failure or success in this brave new world of work?

Today's CES is as much a showcase for the latest business technology as it is for consumer electronics. Enterprise technologies like AI, data analytics, and 5G underpin the latest IoT gadgets, smart devices, and autonomous vehicles and will be on full display at CES 2021.

The new normal for business is a work in progress as the economy attempts to re-open following the COVID-19 pandemic. What now? From Fortune 500 enterprises to mom-and-pop stores, every business faces an unknown future.

A multicloud approach has been talked about for years within enterprises, but few companies have gone that direction. Now it's easier to go multicloud and AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform all share customers. Here's a look at managing multiple cloud providers, how to play them off each other and what vendors and tools can help you manage multiple clouds.

Today's security threats have expanded in their scope and seriousness. There can now be millions -- or even billions -- of dollars at risk when information security isn't handled properly. And beyond that, cybersecurity will define many of the international conflicts of the future.

The pandemic accelerated digital transformation and most everything else about how technology drives business forward. We look at the top trends for the coming year.

The perfect home office, like Rome, wasn't built in a day. From a laptop in the bedroom to a dedicated video studio above the garage, ZDNet contributors welcome you inside their home-based workspaces and show off the tech gear that drives their productivity.

The AI and ML deployments are well underway, but for CXOs the biggest issue will be managing these initiatives, and figuring out where the data science team fits in and what algorithms to buy versus build.

For the business of technology, it was the best of decades, it was the worst of decades. ZDNet looks back at the light and darkness. And what's ahead for the 2020s?