If you were in IT in the 1990s or early 2000s, you could probably tell some stories about things that have dramatically changed. Today’s opportunities and challenges in tech careers were virtually impossible to imagine before the Internet was widespread, before smartphones existed, and before connectivity was expected everywhere we [...]
Your enterprise depends on you to keep the network running smoothly and securely. But, in our increasingly connected world, your enterprise may have cloud services and other systems connected to the global internet. With this connection there can be issues or outages, such as DNS outages, denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, that [...]
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As of May 25, 2018, businesses that have customers, suppliers, or employees located in the European Union are now subject to the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. If you’re a U.S.-based company, this law lays out rules for how you handle and protect personal data that are likely more [...]
Your network has grown beyond the point where non-stacking switches don’t make sense anymore. You need a lot of ports, and managing all of those switches individually is getting to be too cumbersome and time-consuming. You’re now looking at investing in one of two options: either stacking switches or a [...]
Software-defined networking (SDN) has been touted as the future of networking in an increasingly decentralized environment. SDN is a network management approach that uses programming to create an efficient network configuration that improves network performance and monitoring. SDN makes network control directly programmable and abstracts the underlying infrastructure from applications [...]
In August, Cisco announced their latest acquisition: Duo, a company specializing in zero-trust multi-factor authentication (MFA) for organizations that need a secure means for employees to gain remote access to cloud applications. Many analysts have viewed this as a good strategic move for Cisco, which has been working to expand [...]
Many businesses are looking for ways to get the most out of their IT infrastructure. The need for an always available and always on environment may create a need that the physical location of the business isn’t able to handle. This leads to looking for a colocation facility. If you’re [...]
If you’re actively seeking a new IT position or considering starting a job search, know that now is a good time for it. It’s a job seeker’s market, with companies reporting a competitive hiring environment that has many of them planning to offer extra perks and better pay to attract [...]
Summit's Field Guide to Transceivers is a straightforward guide that covers everything an IT pro needs to know about transceiver technologies.
