Small Business News, Features, and Interviews

• How to tame enterprise communications services

  Voice, video, e-mail, file sharing, collaboration – organizations need a solid strategy to assure more manageable, cost-effective, and secure enterprise communications.

• What is an SSD? How solid state drives work

  Solid state drives use interconnected pools of flash memory that are managed by an SSD controller to deliver speeds far beyond what a hard disk drive (HDD) can offer.

• Is an SD-WAN managed service right for you?

  Managed SD-WAN can be an appropriate solution for the enterprise, but due diligence is necessary to determine if it is the best fit.

• 10 useful and free networking tools that are Windows 10 apps

  Easy-access network tools are simple but essential and can be downloaded from the online Microsoft Store and pinned to the Windows 10 Start menu

• 10 of the coolest and wackiest tech stories of 2018

  It’s not necessarily easy to pick the coolest and wackiest tech stories of the year , especially when you have so much to choose from.

• What will be hot for Cisco in 2019?

  Software, SD-WAN, security, high-speed data-centre networking and more software fill up the Cisco hot plate for 2019.

• Making the right hyper-convergence choice: HCI hardware or software?

  Enterprises planning to adopt hyper-converged infrastructure can select from two main approaches: hardware or software.

• What is Transport Layer Security (TLS)?

  TLS is a security staple that, despite being more efficient and effective than SSL, has suffered some major breaches, but TLS 1.3 vastly improves both the privacy and performance of secure Web communications.

• How to make the business case for SD-WAN

  Potential SD-WAN savings can be broken down into hard and soft savings

• Cisco ups the ante for 400G Ethernet with big-bandwidth data centre switches

  Cisco has 400G Ethernet switches that fall into two camps: The Nexus 9000 family aimed at large enterprise networks and the 3400-S class for hyper-scale users.

• Amazon opens up Alexa for Business to third-party devices

  The move allows the voice-activated digital assistant to push further into the enterprise by expanding the variety of devices in which it's embedded.

• Arista joins Juniper, Cisco in 400G Ethernet race

  Arista’s 7060X4 Series switches feature 32 400G Ethernet ports and are based on Broadcom Tomahawk silicon.

• Tech calendar 2018-19: Upcoming events of interest to IT pros

  This technology-events calendar is sortable and updated weekly to provide details for IT pros interested in learning more about technology and networking with their peers.

• Atlassian revamps Jira Software, adds roadmaps tool

  The redesign follows a multi-year migration of the popular issue-tracking app to the AWS cloud and the acquisition last year of Trello.

• Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, sports evangelist, philanthropist dead at 65

  Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist, space enthusiast, owner of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, Paul Allen, has died. He was 65.

• Juniper advances network automation community, skillsets

  Juniper is looking to be an evangelist for network automation by announcing a variety of applications, tools, labs and libraries that it says will hasten adoption the technology for businesses and network professionals.

• Juniper CEO Rahim talks network, security and multicloud trends

  Juniper made a big bet on 400G Ethernet this summer, detailing how it plans to transition its wide-area network, data center and enterprise portfolio to 400G Ethernet. And earlier this year, Juniper released its Contrail Enterprise Multicloud software, an SDN controller that is the central component of its multicloud, intent-based networking strategy. Ahead of its NXTWORK summit next week, Juniper CEO Rami Rahim talked with Network World’s Michael Cooney.

• Cisco Webex outage: Collaboration service finding a lumpy recovery

  A Webex post today (October 4) shows some problems such as poor performance are persisting: “Engineering continues to work on the engineering tasks to address the remaining open items. Some Webex Teams users are still experiencing inconsistent results with some user spaces.

• 400G Ethernet demos, plugfest tout hyperscale network power

  High-speed-Ethernet demos from Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Intel, Huawei and others portend a strong, looming 400G Ethernet future.

• The correct levels of backup save time, bandwidth, space

  Backup and recovery done efficiently require use of multiple backup levels carefully thought out so a full backup isn’t needed as often if incremental and differential backups are properly planned.

The Secrets Behind SMS Gateway Software

Businesses often use SMS gateway software to systematically and effectively send text messages to their subscribers or customers.