Stories by Neal Weinberg

In Pictures: AI gets real

Artificial intelligence projects are moving from the lab to the real world.

In Pictures: Network World's 2014 State of the Network survey

This exclusive research from IDG US publication, Network World, shows that Cloud and mobility are gaining in importance - and while the insights into the State of Networking are based on US sampling the picture paints a broad picture of where network...

Cloud security forecast: Murky with an 80% chance of finger pointing

Despite the best efforts of cloud service providers and industry groups like the Cloud Security Alliance, cloud security remains a troublesome issue for IT execs.

Fathers of technology: 10 unsung heroes

In the tech world, the inventor, originator or driving force behind a new product or technology is typically dubbed "father of the _______".

IBM, HP lead the way on green IT

If your IT department has decided to "go green," you probably need help from your strategic IT vendors. But which ones?

Artificial Intelligence gets real

Artificial intelligence projects are moving from the lab to the real world.

Unsung fathers of technology

Who's your daddy?

INTEROP - Cloudy picture for cloud computing

You can call it <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/031108-eleven-cloud-computing-vendors-to.html">cloud computing</a>. You can call it grid computing. You can call it on-demand computing. Just don't call it the next big thing -- <a href="...

Data leakage prevention: Hot technology for 2008

How hot is the data leakage prevention market? Well, if the big boys like Cisco, Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro are snapping up DLP start-ups to the tune of US$1.6 billion in 2007, there must be a reason.

Two-factor authentication: Hot technology for 2008

We've known for a long time that requiring just a user name and password to get on the network or to access personal information on a Web site isn't the tightest security posture, but there weren't a lot of good alternatives, and there wasn't that mu...

NAC: Hot technology for 2008

IT execs want to make sure that users don't come back from a business trip and infect the entire company. IT execs want to make sure contractors with visitor access to the network aren't able to do damage or get access to confidential information. An...

Web 2.0: Hot technology for 2008

When it comes to hot buzzwords, nothing comes close to Web 2.0. Nobody knows exactly what it means but everybody uses it. In fact, at Network World we've started getting press releases referring to Web 3.0.....whatever that is.

iSCSI: Hot technology for 2008

ISCSI runs over plain, old Ethernet, which means you don't need a separate Fibre Channel network. You don't need host bus adapters. You don't need Fibre Channel switches. You don't need specialized IT staffers.

802.11n: Hot technology for 2008

Some day the IEEE will get around to finalizing the 802.11n standard that it began working on in 2003. That some day was supposed to be 2006. Then 2007. Then 2008. Maybe, the standard will be finalized in 2009. Maybe 2010.

Green IT: Hot technology for 2008

There is no topic hotter than global warming. After all, Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in raising awareness, his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Oscar, and terms like "carbon footprint" are now part of the common lexicon.