Neal Weinberg
Contributing writer
Neal Weinberg is a freelance technology writer and editor. He can be reached at neal_weinberg@idg.contractors.
How IT pros can benefit from generative AI safely
Natural language chatbots can transform enterprise IT for the good, but keep a human in the loop.
6 lessons from the Amazon Prime Video serverless vs. monolith flap
Prime Video developers fine-tuned their microservices architecture to address underlying issues that enlisting network expertise might have caught earlier.
eBay scores cost savings and a bandwidth boost with white-box switches running SONiC
Open-source software plus switches built from commodity parts transform eBay's data-center networks to a 400Gbps Layer 3 fabric.
Who is selling NaaS, and what do you get?
Network as a service comes in five distinct flavors depending on whether it’s offered by hardware vendors, telcos, cloud providers, muticloud vendors, or WAN-transport carriers.
Cloud vs on-prem: SaaS vendor 37signals bails out of the public cloud
37signals CTO claims dumping IaaS cloud services in favor of buying servers can save millions of US dollars per year for the right type of organization.
Ethernet at 50: Bob Metcalfe pulls down the Turing Award
The co-creator of Ethernet reflects on its growth and weighs the impact of technologies from AI to geothermal power.
SD-WAN, SASE prove essential tools for Porsche’s electric-racecar success
Data from Porsche E-cars flows from racetracks around the world, via Cato Networks SD-WAN and SASE, to Germany, where it's used to optimize tactics real-time.
Royal Caribbean adopts zero trust on land and sea
The cruise line boosted security and lowered costs with Zscaler’s zero-trust services for network access.
Network-as-a-service lets a shoe retailer take steps toward Zero Trust
DTLR has gradually moved its retail footwear operations to Cloudflare NaaS for better security, network performance, and predictable costs.
SASE enables augmented reality for glass manufacturer
Support engineers at O-I Glass use HoloLens over Cato Networks SASE to see the remote problems they are helping to fix.
10 most powerful network-management companies
Innovative vendors have expanded beyond monitoring networks and are building full-stack, SaaS-based observability platforms.