Author: Asad Yaseen

Cisco’s planned acquisition of Acacia Communications took a litigious turn this week as the networking giant has gone to court to keep the optical technologies vendor from terminating the purchase. Cisco filed for a temporary restraining order in Delaware Chancery Court Jan. 8 to prevent Acacia from terminating its acquisition agreement with the company. The move followed an Acacia statement issued earlier on Jan. 8 that stated the company “has elected to terminate its merger…

Now that it’s clear remote work is here to stay, what are the technology priorities for IT departments charged with keeping the enterprise workforce productive and secure? In a December report, research firm Gartner said it expects 48% of employees will work from home, even after the pandemic, compared with 30% pre-pandemic. Forrester, too, expects the remote worker population to remain elevated. “While there is no clear end point to the pandemic yet, the number…

Yesterday — Jan. 6, 2021 — was a day that will live in infamy for the US. Rioters, urged on by President Donald Trump, successfully attacked the US Capitol.  For weeks, President Trump had been spreading false claims that the election had somehow been stolen from him. Then, President Trump tweeted: “I hope the Democrats … are looking at the thousands of people pouring into DC. They won’t stand for a landslide election victory to…

If you’ve noticed components are hard to get these days, you are not alone. The supply of computing components can get a little tight around the end of the year but this year is especially bad, much of it due to Covid-19-related issues. Intel spent much of 2020 struggling with CPU shortages. In the latter half of the year it was hit with chipset shortages, with the B460 and H410 chipsets reportedly out of stock…

(A hurricane devastated an island that held two data centers controlling mission-critical systems for an American biotech company. They flew a backup expert with four decades of experience to the island on a corporate jet to save the day. This is the story of the challenges he faced and how he overcame them. He spoke on the condition of anonymity, so we call him Ron, the island Atlantis, his employer Initech, and we don’t name…