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Why mobility will - and does already - matter to IT

While much talk about mobile has a tone of "impending trend" to it, there are currently many mobility initiatives afoot in your organization, some of which IT knows about, some which it may not. by Chris Silva

Tags: Information Technology, Mobility, Wireless And Mobility, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-10-27

It's flu season: connect and optimize your workers

I recently took part in my first Wi-Fi enabled flight (AA 387 STL â€" SAN) and, in addition to raving about the experience, I found it one of the better ways to make productive use of otherwise lost time. While the speed was reasonable, and better than I'd expected, there...

Tags: Continuity, Mobile, Optimization, Worker, Mobile User, WANs, Advertising & Promotion, Remote Access, Network Technology, Networking, Marketing, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-09-22

How virtual can your organization get?

The answer, based on research recently completed by Doug Washburn and I, entirely. With the help of Christine Perkett, President and founder of PerkettPR â€" an organization of all virtual employees â€" we studied the IT infrastructure, productivity, and green benefits of PerkettPR's last ten years as an organization reliant...

Tags: Worker, Organization, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Optimizing the branch: Mobilizing IT

Writing on technologies for the branch office often times places me across the domains of mobility and non-mobile network infrastructure. Increasingly, in client inquiry calls, the question of "how do I optimize my branch office infrastructure" comes up and takes many forms. I'll attempt to address the most common of...

Tags: Branch Office, Information Technology, Carrier, 3G, WiMAX, Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-05-15

BlueCoat: Creating an economic advantage for users in 2009?

Last week, BlueCoat gathered analysts in New York City for its Application Delivery Network Briefing Event to showcase its newest offerings, some of which are not yet released, and give the analyst community an update on where things stand following the company’s acquisition of Packeteer, completed in June of 2008....

Tags: Security, Acquisition, Optimization, BlueCoat, WANs, Mergers & Acquisitions, Software Development, Network Technology, Networking, Investment, Finance, Software/Web Development, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Wi-Fi: the only network you need?

CES, the showcase of all tech that is likely to make a splash over the next year, is upon us. While reserved primarily for, as the name implies, consumer technology, there are fundamental tools and technologies that will impact businesses as well.News coming out of Las Vegas today is around...

Tags: Device, Network, Personal Area Network, Radio, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Chipsets, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-01-07

What's he building in there?

Tom Waits fans know the title of this post as one of his pieces and one that was used in the Enron documentary "The Smartest Guys In the Room." There's a YouTube video of the Waits piece here, if you're interested. Doing some research recently, the first couple lines of...

Tags: Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Routers & Switches, Networking, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Who Is For Sale This Time?

It seems the WLAN acquisition rumor mill is hot again after a recent drop in Aruba Network ARUN shares nearly a week ago. Still not trading near its most recent trough of $4.29/share on July 14, according to Google Finance, I am not convinced that the next acquisition announcement will...

Tags: Acquisition, WLAN, Meru Networks, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wireless LANs, Corporate Law, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Networking, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Additional Resources

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Researchers use ordinary camera flash to create graphene

The production of graphene has just become a whole lot easier. Northwestern University scientists have demonstrated that graphite oxide can be converted instantly to graphene by exposing the material to a pulse of light from an ordinary camera flash. Laura J. Cote, Rodolfo Cruz-Silva, and Jiaxing Huang...

Tags: Northwestern University, Camera, Graphene, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-22

News to know: More Kindle, Intel, IT Talent, Google energy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Christopher Dawson: Kindle 2.0: Give me a Classmate instead Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Kindle 2 - It is what it...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Smart Phones, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Forrester and Aerohive Present the Application and Network Impacts of 802.11n Standard

Wireless networking is a given for businesses of all sizes and now there is a new 802.11 wireless standard to consider. The coverage and bandwidth improvements of 802.11n will further accelerate the adoption of mobile applications and provide the opportunity for wireless to become the primary access method in tomorrow's...

Tags: Network, IEEE 802.11n, Aerohive Networks Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless

Webcasts 2008-06-18