The world has gone web-scale crazy, but what does web-scale mean when we apply the term to networking? Isn’t the network how we got the web in the first place? Unfortunately, many of today’s networks ...

Recently, many vendors have championed hyperconverged architectures by arguing that Web-scale titans, like Google and Facebook, take similar approaches. This is incorrect. There may be commonalities ...

With customers demanding access to goods and services where and when they want, and servers deluged with requests, concurrency and expectations of responsiveness, organizations of all types are ...

Go big or go home. That’s the rule for businesses today as they work to deliver more products and services more quickly on a variety of Web-based channels. Many cloud service providers are setting the ...

Some problems are good to have… but they’re still problems. A company that has web-scale problems is probably growing and innovating—but at a pace so rapid that the current infrastructure can’t keep ...

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The web-scale effect that is transforming data centers and IT is now being applied to WAN networks so they can support applications that require expansive bandwidth, efficiency and ...

A server used to host a website or Web content that uses low-power CPUs, such as Intel's Atom and VIA Technology's Nano processors. Rack-mounted Web-scale servers are designed to be power efficient ...

In just the last few years several trends have impacted the way that applications are developed and deployed. Agile infrastructure options such as public clouds have empowered application teams to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. If the COVID-19 Coronavirus contagion has taught us one ...

Connecting users with the information they seek is one of the central pillars of our profession. Web-scale discovery services for libraries are those services capable of searching quickly and ...