These days, every company is built on apps. That is, every company uses some kind of SaaS provider or digital application to run their organization. It’s unavoidable. This means that when we build ...

When IT professionals think about IT infrastructure, they conjure images of routers, switches, WANs, disk arrays and lots and lots of end points. When end users think about IT, they imagine their ...

Zscaler Inc.’s zero-trust access service, a move meant to show security teams what users do once they’re inside a private ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Today, every business in every ...

Applications have become more dynamic, multi-platform and compartmentalised, and altogether more complex. In this new world of the ultra-distributed composite application, the task of centralised ...

Having just covered some history of the Enterprise WAN to help give you a feel of WAN economics and reliability, I’d now like to cover the factors that affect application performance over the WAN, as ...

Engineer, entrepreneur and inventor Bob Metcalfe once described how the value of a network grew as the number of Ethernet cards increased. The concept also works for applications. While the cost of a ...