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Only a decade ago, the concept of being able to speak a prompt into a phone and get a response only seconds later was straight out of futuristic movies. But, that's precisely the way voice search functions.

When organizations build their networks, they must make IT budget decisions with an eye toward cost. In addition to the question of how much it will cost to get their systems up and running, they also have to consider how much...

Companies across all industries are turning away from physical storage and computing power to cloud-based resources. This is good news and bad news for data centers. On one hand, more business for data centers — on the other,...

For many years, companies used organizational structures that kept several departments “siloed” from one another, which allowed them to establish easy-to-manage hierarchies within each function. Although most of them have...

Business intelligence (BI) involves using a variety of specialized tools, programs and techniques to extract data from external and internal sources. The associated systems analyze it to learn insights that may have otherwise...

The digital transformation of the global economy has made technology central to almost every industry’s business strategy. Organizations depend upon their IT infrastructure to build, deliver, and market products and services...

For years, the principal goal in information security was to keep unauthorized parties out of a network. However, one problem with that mindset is that if people have the appropriate credentials, the system "trusts" them and...

Imagine for a moment that it’s 2:00 am when you receive an alert that a critical part of your website has gone down. As a result, customers across the world are unable to buy your products and or use your services. Every moment

When organizations weigh the costs of building out their own data center solution against the benefits of colocation services, they often keep most of their focus on technical details. They consider connectivity options,...

A data center outage sounds comfortably hypothetical, or like a brief and harmless setback, until it happens to you. In 2016, research from the Ponemon Institute found that data center downtime costs as much as $9,000 per...

Choosing the right data center is a complex decision that involves more than basic computing and data management needs. Data center efficiency is a key consideration that can have massive implications for a business. When...