Carl Weinschenk

Navigating Your Way Through an IT Road Map Making fun of marketing departments is as old as business itself. They take a small advance, or even no advance, and make it seem as if the folks for whom they work have discovered cold fusion. But, sometimes, it is a good idea to listen to these […]

Security Risks in the Supply Chain There have been a lot of frightening things in the world of IT and telecom during the past few years. Something that stick outs even in this threatening landscape happened a few years ago when particularly creepy malcontents hacked into video baby monitors. That particular sign of the apocalypse […]

Enterprise Mobility Management Myth Busters: Users vs. IT Reality The hybrid market seems to be going through a course correction. InformationWeek indicated that variations of the Surface 3 were becoming increasingly hard to find on the Microsoft website. That scarcity led to thoughts that the line of hybrids was about to fold, no pun intended. […]

Embracing the Mobile Development Trends of 2016 As it edges away from oblivion, BlackBerry has simultaneously edged away from being a device company. While smartphones are important to its image, they are increasingly being deemphasized as software becomes the company’s major product – and sole realistic route to survival. So the news that BlackBerry sold […]

Embracing the Mobile Development Trends of 2016 Initially, the timeline for 5G suggested that the ambitious technology would be ready in the 2020 timeframe. That’s still the date people are using, but there are more than a few hints that vendors and operators are speeding things up a bit. The latest example is Ericsson’s announcement […]

6 Devices Poised to Disrupt Your Network in 2016 IBM Watson, the distributed natural language processing platform, isn’t the only advanced system available, but it’s the highest-profile and arguably the most sophisticated. It’s also important to recognize how shrewdly Watson is being marketed. Even before Watson was Watson, IBM was adept at generating publicity for […]

Navigating Your Way Through an IT Road Map A study by Booz Allen Hamilton says that Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, which manage critical infrastructure, are becoming targets of ransomware. The report is full of bad news for industrial control system (ICS) operators. Attacks are increasing: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responded […]

Disaster Recovery as a Service: 7 Top Providers The sad truth, which was driven home again last week in Orlando, is that disasters happen with a fair amount of regularity. Whether manmade or natural, they have many things in common. One of the most important is that limiting human and business damage depends upon the […]

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work The temptation to sit back and not think that change is occurring can be overpowering, especially if things are going well. In telecommunications, for instance, carriers were in denial about the advantages of carrier Ethernet services because the new approach threatened the T-1 business, which was a […]

Go Digital or Die? How to Build a Bimodal Digital Future Nothing is forever and beyond change. That said, it is beginning look as if net neutrality will be with us for a while. Certainly, it is embedded in our laws more firmly than it ever has been. In a 2-to-1 ruling, the U.S. Court […]

25 Cool Gadget Gift Ideas for Executives and Tech-Lovers Bluetooth is everywhere, and it is about to drastically increase its functionality. Bluetooth 5 will officially be unveiled this week at Discover Blue in London by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), according to InformationWeek. The current standard, for a few more days, at least, is […]

10 Myths About Virtual Mobile Infrastructure Things are going very well for LTE. The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) reports that in 2015, 645 million LTE subscriptions were added worldwide and that during the first quarter of this year 182 million new connections were created. By the end of the first quarter, there were more […]