In a subterranean labyrinth of aging pipes and bundled wires stretching for miles in every direction, these engineers are trying to make this city's densely packed communications networks less ...

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Platform strategies, open source, internet of things: we’re all looking for new business models of the networked world. What about leadership in today's hyperconnected environment? What are the new ...

If Sept. 11, 2001, was a wake-up call for government officials about the state of the nation’s emergency communications, so was last year’s Hurricane Katrina, which offers many lessons about how to ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Driven by financial needs, a ...

Distributed applications, whether they are containerized or not, have a lot of benefits when it comes to modularity and scale. But in a world of feature creep on all applications, whether they are ...

Rather than predict what 2022 will bring, let's manage the future by implementing the lessons learned from this year's biggest security threats. It’s the end of 2021, a time when you expect to see ...

Today, we are seeing an unprecedented number of people forced to flee, leaving their homes behind and moving towards an uncertain future. What we are not seeing, is adequate and coordinated responses ...

The Omidyar Network’s first 10 years of existence led to investments in companies and nonprofits that have touched the lives of more than 1.2 billion people worldwide. Digging deeper, this ...