The world has gone web-scale crazy, but what does web-scale mean when we apply the term to networking? Isn’t the network how we got the web in the first place? Unfortunately, many of today’s networks ...

In the days when businesses expanded through brick-and-mortar investment, entrepreneurs and business leaders were able to control how fast people were able to access their services, and scale up ...

A dominant trend in IT shops is to move from custom to Web-based applications. According to the report, “Branch Office Networking: An IT Business State-of-the-Market Brief,” by Jim Metzler, a ...

A definitive definition of a Web 2.0 “Social Network” is as hard to come by as a definitive definition of Web 2.0 itself. Tim Berners-Lee recently noted (see “Evolving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0”) the ...

Online social networks and blogs are becoming the communication medium of choice for millions of professionals around the world. While the reasons for social networking are vast — to stay in touch ...

Explore how internet infrastructure and global networks really work, who controls critical data routes, and why undersea ...