Executive Guides

Office 365 vs G Suite: Which productivity suite is best for your business?

Microsoft and Google are engaged in a pitched battle to win over your business with suites of cloud-based productivity software and services. Here's a look at the many different editions of Office 365 and G Suite, along with what you can expect to pay for each one.

2 days ago by Ed Bott in Enterprise Software

How ‘cloud-native’ applications are transforming IT, and why it took so long

Since the turn of the century, a movement in the software development field has gradually, deliberately upset the balance of power in computing. If you haven’t noticed it, you’re not alone.

3 days ago by Scott Fulton III in Cloud

Here's how C-V2X can change driving, smart cities

News that Ford will roll out cellular vehicle-to-everything technology to its fleet beginning in 2022 is likely to usher in smarter transportation and cities.

January 11, 2019 by Larry Dignan in Internet of Things

VPN services: The ultimate guide to protecting your data on the internet

Whether you're in the office or on the road, a VPN is still one of the best ways to protect yourself on the big, bad internet.

January 9, 2019 by David Gewirtz in Security

Microsoft Azure: Everything you need to know about Redmond's cloud service

Second only to AWS among cloud providers, Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud-based computing services available to businesses, developers, government agencies, and anyone who wants to build an app or run an enterprise without having to manage hardware.

January 3, 2019 by Ed Bott in Cloud

What is cloud computing? Everything you need to know about the cloud, explained

Updated: An introduction to cloud computing right from the basics up to IaaS and PaaS, hybrid, public, and private cloud, AWS and Azure.

December 13, 2018 by Steve Ranger in Cloud

The rise, fall, and rise of the supercomputer in the cloud era

Though the personal computer was born from garage projects, the supercomputer had been declining to the back of the garage. That's until a handful of trends conspired to poke the reset button for the industry. Now the race is back on.

December 12, 2018 by Scott Fulton III in Hardware

Marijuana means business: Everything you need to know about the cannabis industry

With the legal status of medical and recreational marijuana in constant flux, and varying wildly from state to state, the opportunities and risks of this market are mind-alteringly complex. Here are the basics.

November 16, 2018 by Jason Perlow in Innovation

With hemp legalization, CBD industry poised for explosive growth

CBD can be extracted using marijuana strains, or marijuana's non-psychoactive cousin, industrial hemp, which has now been de-scheduled under the Controlled Substances Act.

November 16, 2018 by Jason Perlow in Innovation

Service mesh: What it is and why it matters so much now

It's a new and emerging class of service manager for distributed computing -- one that can work hand-in-hand with orchestrators such as Kubernetes. The service mesh would build a "Layer 7 network" exclusively for applications. And the changes it would make could reignite old debates about network architecture.

November 13, 2018 by Scott Fulton III in Data Centers

What a quantum computer is, and why it needs to be more

It would be the harbinger of an entirely new medium of calculation, harnessing the inexplicable powers of subatomic particles to obliterate the barriers of time in solving incalculable problems. Your part in making it happen may simply be to convince yourself that black is white and up is down.

November 12, 2018 by Scott Fulton III in Hardware

Remote working 101: Professional's guide to the tools of the trade

Mastering remote work is all about finding the right tools to stay productive and connected. This guide will have you and your team synchronized and working in harmony, wherever you happen to be.

October 17, 2018 by Greg Nichols in Collaboration

Can blockchain transform healthcare IT?

How the technology-enabled mechanism of trust might affect the way medical information is handled.

September 28, 2018 by Bob Violino in Digital Health and Wellness

Microsoft Office 365 for business: Everything you need to know

Microsoft's multitude of Business and Enterprise editions -- licensed as monthly or annual subscriptions -- offer more advanced feature sets than the Home and Personal editions, with collaborative applications and management tools designed for meeting enterprise security and compliance challenges.

September 28, 2018 by Ed Bott in Enterprise Software