Market research firm IDC predicts that by 2023, 25% of Fortune 500 companies will gain a competitive advantage from quantum computing. It’s a bold prediction given the current dearth of real-world examples of quantum computing in action. However, there’s plenty of industry activity to back up IDC’s forecast. In fact, early this year at the Consumer Electronics […]

Many edge-computing deployments are driven by very specific needs, but since new needs may arise down the road with a different set of edge requirements, IT leaders should adopt edge-computing architectures with flexibility and adaptability in mind. The fact that all edge-computing systems have certain things in common – complex combinations of hardware, applications, infrastructure software and […]

The cloud will not kill the data center, but it will transform it. That’s one of the takeaways from the 2020 State of the Data Center report from AFCOM, the industry association for data center professionals. In the near term, construction will slow way down, which aligns with what IDC analyst Rick Villars told me about […]