Managing telecom operations is a complex endeavor as it involves managing many layers of complex systems designed to deal with business issues, technology equipment, and customer management. Besides, a telecom operator has to deal with retail customers, wholesale customers, resellers, partners, employees, contractors, installers and a myriad of equipment and service suppliers. Despite all this
It appears that traditional data center architecture built around the clusters of dedicated servers is now obsolete. In the last few years, increasing number of companies virtualized their data centers to support various in-house applications. However, virtualization which was the buzzword until recently is now simply being looked upon as a stepping stone to create
Big corporations in the US continue to lose critical and confidential information to unknown hackers at a very alarming rate. First, it was massive and embarrassing data breach at Sony Pictures and then it was soon followed by the equally damaging breach at Anthem Inc, a major insurer. They lost information of about 80 million
US cellular carriers continued the aggressive deployment of LTE in all major metro areas in the year 2014 to attract more subscribers (and also the right to brag who has the biggest LTE network in the country). We all enjoy the higher data rates. But, there is more LTE. One of the most exciting features
The cloud provides convenient, on-demand network access to a centralized pool of configurable computing resources such as such as computing servers, storage, networks, services, and applications that can be rapidly deployed with great efficiency and minimal management overhead. Although cloud computing presents tremendous benefits in terms cost and performance, security and privacy concerns remain the
Almost every day we hear or read about the eCommerce sites losing customer credit card data or other critical operational data. The companies lose critical information such as credit cards data, patient health records, and social security numbers to the hackers due to vulnerabilities in their customer facing web applications. While it may be impossible
Enterprise networks are vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks ranging from data leaks to the spread of malware to insider threats. Because enterprise networks often contain sensitive or valuable information, companies try to deploy a large number of software tools to secure them. But despite the deployment of expensive software and hardware tools systems
The technology is moving at a very fast pace with new ideas and products being announced almost every day. As matter of fact, the number of new products and technologies being announced every month is making it hard to keep track of changes even in one particular technology/industry segment. Now if you are required to