Carl Weinschenk

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World The establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba was one of the big stories of the latter half of Barack Obama’s second term. Industry in general and telecommunications in particular stand to make gains from the opening, for two reasons. Cuba is an island with a […]

9 Successful Digital Disruption Examples Emerging technologies are a mix of two things. The first are “new new” things, which are being developed for the first time and expressly for that new product or platform. The second is a bit more subtle. These are “newish” techniques that weren’t developed directly for the emerging technology, but […]

One of the high-priority items in many circles is finding ways in which to secure the Internet of Things (IoT). The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), according to cyberscoop, had planned to issue a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to examine responses to cyber risks that are outside “market-based measures.” The story says that this […]

5 Tips When Incorporating Wearables in the Workplace The next version of Bluetooth has arrived. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) yesterday said that Bluetooth 5 has become the latest core specification of the hugely successful standard. The group says that Bluetooth 5 offers longer range, great speeds and larger broadcast message capacity. It is […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise As the name implies, software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) use SDN techniques to perform a WAN’s task of creating a cohesive enterprise network no matter where the endpoints are situated. Knowledgeable observers suggest that it’s going to be a hot area. A survey conducted at Light Reading’s ongoing Executive Summit in […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World The usual cautions are in order for 5G  announcements of trials, tests and technical advances: Engineering staffs should look very carefully at whether what is being announced indeed is 5G, or if marketing departments are pushing things in order to make it appear that the […]

How to Create a Culture of Innovation Traditionally, development has been a systematic process in which code is written and followed sequentially by testing, multiple types of controlled rollouts and, finally, commercialization. The idea is to take as long as necessary to get it right. Thus, it can be a lengthy process, but one that […]

5 Steps for Proactive Cyber Risk Management Autonomous vehicles (aka driverless cars) are coming and IT needs to prepare. That’s the premise of an InformationWeek article, which seems to suggest that a good deal of productivity may be added to a normal workday. The car becomes a fairly good workspace once the driver is released […]

8 Web App Security Best Practices to Fight Off Bot Intrusions One of the biggest stories of the year is the Mirai botnet. Indeed, it is a big deal in both the security and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors. Mirai, malware that plants itself on poorly or unsecured IoT devices, was responsible this fall for […]

The cable industry has always had ambitions in the commercial services area. More specifically, the industry aims at the middle and smaller segment of the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) market. The telcos generally control the large businesses, though this has evolved a bit over the years. The cable industry became less regionalized and, since […]

5 Essential Elements in Building an Agile Data Center It’s a happy accident for IT departments and the companies for whom they work that cloud computing has become so popular. The cloud, among its other attributes, is a potent and powerful tool for disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC). IT departments certainly realize this. Data […]

Last week, Cisco reported that sales will fall short of expectations. Or, perhaps, it was reporting something more subtle: That “expectations” have changed and that a new and as yet undetermined normal will be established. All sectors are liable to good cycles and bad. That is the nature of business. The savviest of planners, however, […]