Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesFollow the rebranding and renaming transitions of the multitude of Dell data protection products acquired and cultivated over the past 30 years. By Chris Evans Dell EMC’s portfolio of data protection offerings has grown over the past 30 years. Now, with a greater focus on the public cloud, how can it continue to service existing customers and bring them into
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesA wireless access point (wireless AP) is a network device that transmits and receives data over a wireless local area network (WLAN). The wireless access point serves as the interconnection point between the WLAN and a fixed wire network. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Conceptually, an AP is like an Ethernet hub, but instead of relaying LAN frames only to other 802.3
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIs there a difference between a wireless access point vs. a router? Yes — while the two wireless devices are related, they meet different needs in a Wi-Fi network. By Alissa Irei and Lisa Phifer Significant differences exist between a wireless access point vs. a wireless router. While both support Wi-Fi network connectivity and may perform similar roles, the two devices
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe four types of wireless networks — wireless LAN, wireless MAN, wireless PAN and wireless WAN — differ when it comes to size, range and connectivity requirements. By David Jacobs There are four types of wireless networks — wireless local area networks, wireless metropolitan area networks, wireless personal area networks and wireless wide area networks — each with its own
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesSecurity audits, evaluations of tools and looking realistically at trending technologies are some ways an organization can ensure its network security is the best it can be. By Michaela Goss Contrary to what some professionals might assume, remote work can help enhance an organization’s network security strategy. When most organizations were forced into a work-from-home model due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesSoftware asset management (SAM) is the administration of processes, policies and procedures that support the procurement, deployment, use, maintenance and disposal of software applications within an organization. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com SAM is the part of IT asset management that seeks to ensure the organization complies with license agreements and does not overspend on software. An important goal of every SAM initiative is to facilitate the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIT asset management (information technology asset management, or ITAM) is a set of business practices that combines financial, inventory and contractual functions to optimize spending and support lifecycle management and strategic decision-making within the IT environment. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Brian Holak, Emily McLaughlin ITAM is often a subset of the IT service management (ITSM) process. An IT asset is classified as any company-owned information,
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIT asset management should be an important pillar in an organisation’s digital transformation journey, but it doesn’t seem to be working. By Eric Chiu The IT asset management (ITAM) industry too often fails to deliver consistent value and protection to businesses that are seeking to optimise their IT investments, and it only has itself to blame. This is not an easy thing
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesMonitoring employees who work remotely has taken on a whole extra dimension in the Covid-19 pandemic year of 2020. Financial services firms are among those which suggest ways of doing it humanely and legally. By SA Mathieson “For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium,” wrote the lawyer and politician Edward Coke in 1628, the
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesLatency is a synonym for delay. In telecommunications, low latency is associated with a positive user experience (UX) while high latency is associated with poor UX. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Alexander Gillis, Matthew Haughn and Ed Blair In computer networking, latency is an expression of how much time it takes for a data packet to travel from one designated point to another. Ideally,
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