As everyone knows, it’s important to choose a router capable of meeting the fast-changing demands of the hybrid-work era. But don’t forget the other end of the connection.

Taking a cue from PC gamers, consumers and enterprise IT buyers increasingly understand that the best networks are built with both wireless routers and laptops with the most advanced Wi-Fi 6 technologies.

Be sure that four key Wi-Fi 6 capabilities are in every new laptop you specify. To learn more, download the latest FeibusTech Report, It Takes Two to … Network.

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If you’ve done everything you can think of to improve your work-from-home communications but Zoom calls still cut out, then check out my latest column in the Tech section of USA Today. In it, I share pointers for helping to ensure that your work collaboration doesn’t take a a backseat to any other network traffic. Even if you have a gamer at home clamoring for every bit.

Update: the column is now live on Medium. See it HERE.

Many IT architects who resisted the rush to the public cloud now find themselves adopting hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, as their first step toward hybrid cloud.

Here’s why fast-growing Azure Stack HCI from Microsoft on Intel 3rd-Gen Xeon Scalable is emerging as the preferred platform – and why more decisionmakers are choosing DataON to deliver the platform.

Find out more. Read the latest FeibusTech report, Stairway to Hybrid,

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At its flagship industry event last week, Cloudera unveiled CDP Private Cloud, which brings on-premises the same platform that shuttles data and workloads between the major public clouds. If that sounds like what you’ve been dreaming of, you’re not alone.

Read more about it in my latest column on Medium.

A deafening call to modernize the data center is driving the next wave of hybrid cloud demand. The cloud ecosystem would do well to deliver that.

Read about it in my latest column, via CIO Magazine.

It’s been a disappointing smartwatch upgrade season thus far, with mostly minor updates to wearables lineups from the big consumer electronics makers. Which helps make otherwise modest refinements to Fitbit’s go-to tracker lineup stand out.

I’ve been evaluating the new Fitbit Charge 5 , which is available to pre-order today for shipment by month’s end. Here’s my take, via LinkedIn.

Why are engineers working so hard to teach computers what we do really well, and forcing us to do tasks we’ll never perform as well as computers?

Autonomous driving technology needs a reset. Or accidents like the ones the US government are now investigating will continue.

My latest, via MarketWatch.

What will you drive in ’35? A gas-powered vehicle, most likely.

After the years-long push for EV, that’s kind of a sobering thought. But that’s the reality.

Backed by government initiatives, investors hope they can change the outlook. Can they?

In my latest column – my first for MarketWatch – I examine the biggest areas for investment in sustainable fuels, and their prospects. Check it out!

I left my SLR camera home on our trip to the British Virgin Islands this summer. The ante was high. It was our first time to the BVI – and our first time anywhere since the pandemic. Did I regret using a high-end phone like the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra as my only camera?

Find out in my latest column in the Tech section of USA Today

The pandemic sparked a wave of cloud-native deployments like no one has ever seen. But when all is said and done, 2020 will become known more for shining a light on what’s to come than what was accomplished.

In my latest CIO Magazine column, The Rise of the Cloud Data Platform, I detail what’s next on CIOs’ and CDOs’ to-do lists.

There’s a lot of noise over whether the US should raise the minimum wage to $15. But the actual impact would barely be noticeable. Find out why in my op-ed piece in The Mercury News.

Just as Capitol Hill is trying to turn back the clock on some of the past decade’s most predatory Big Tech buyouts, a new deal is making its way through the same regulatory process that is every bit as anti-competitive: Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of Arm. If consummated, the deal will give one company undo power over a technology platform that is critical to countless competitors, ecosystem partners and markets.

Do regulators have the tools to spot the perils of this acquisition? Find a framework for assessing the potential harm in FeibusTech’s latest report, Nvidia and Arm: The Perils of Technology Platform Acquisitions.

Update: Is the deal a national security threat? And if so, for what nation? Read my latest column in Venture Beat.

Business-class ultraportables have always been sleek and sexy. But the little computers were never very good at, you know, computing.

That’s all changed now. Driven by Intel’s 11th-generation Core processors (code-named Tiger Lake), the latest little laptops come in big on performance. I’ve even been using them as my desktop PC – and they perform great, even on heavier-duty tasks like video editing.

I evaluate three of the latest – the HP Elite Dragonfly G2, the ThinkPad X1 Nano from Lenovo and Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7+. Read about it in my latest for USA Today’s Tech section.

Intel’s new CEO is hitting the ground running. For starters, he just launched a $20 billion investment in new Arizona manufacturing  facilities. And that wasn’t even the company’s biggest announcement that day.

Intel also revealed it is dedicating capacity in Arizona for US-based semiconductor companies – even competitor Qualcomm. Dr. Randhir Thakur (pictured above), Intel’s Chief Supply Chain Officer, will head the new operation, called Intel Foundry Services.

Find out why. Read my analysis in the Tech section of USA Today.

Contrary to popular belief, the path between on-premise data centers and the public cloud is actually a two-way street. Indeed, for all the seemingly endless storage and performance, the cloud isn’t always the best option for every dataset and every workload.

So how do you decide what belongs in the cloud, and what should stay on-premise? Read FeibusTech’s latest report, To the Cloud and Back, and find out what companies large and small are doing, and how their experiences can help shape your rent-or-buy computing decisions.

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Many of tech’s stalwarts believe Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s proposed buyout of ARM – one of the biggest and most consequential tech acquisitions ever – is bad for business.

Find out why. And find out why so few of them are speaking out publicly. In my latest column, in EE Times.

It’s not all gloom and doom on Main Street USA. Because out of the trauma of lockdowns and social distancing a playbook is emerging for how mom-and-pop shops can succeed in the post-pandemic era. My latest, via the Money section of USA Today.

As if on cue, Dell, HP and Lenovo all unveiled new business-class laptops at CES that seem custom-designed for working from home. They’re not only more secure. They’re also faster, more responsive and last longer on a single charge.

They’re especially good at what most work-from-home types are doing: productivity apps like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, editing video and – of course – video conferencing.

The foundation for the systems is Intel’s new 11th-generation Tiger Lake Core processors with vPro, which also were announced at CES. Read more in my latest CIO Magazine column HERE.

The potential for deriving great insights from streams and stores of data – wherever they may be – is very real. But realizing that potential demands a holistic approach to the data lifecycle.

Allow me to explain. Read my latest column in the Data-Driven Investor, via Medium.

This year’s new stable of true wireless earbuds, unveiled in and around CES, seem tailor-made for working from home. Why? They have active noise cancellation. And the new open-style designs are more comfortable to wear for long periods.

So how do they match up? Find out in my latest column in the Tech section of USA Today.

It’s no secret that the acceleration of the distributed workplace is driving adoption of new technologies. It’s a trend that will far outlive the pandemic. Here what I had to share in CompuCom and Zebra Technologies’ three-part webinar on the future of work.

Intel has taken plenty of heat over the past several years for manufacturing slips and product delays, something that seemed almost unheard of a decade ago. But the company’s got a plan to be competitive going forward. Will it work?

Find out in my latest column, Is Intel’s AI Strategy Smart Enough to Get the Company Back on Track?

Technology’s behemoths are battling as hard to be the greenest as they are on the internet. And Amazon, for the moment at least, is king. Read about it HERE.

The Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro is everything you could want in a device for your front-line workforce. Learn why in my review on Medium.

There are large digital frames for artwork, like the Meural Canvas series. And there are smaller frames designed specifically for photos. But now, the new Netgear Wi-Fi Photo Frame is launching a new tweener category: frames that are large enough for art, yet personal enough for pictures.

So is it a great gift idea for someone special on your list? Find out. Read my review here on Medium.

When Apple introduced the first MacBooks built around its own ARM processor design, the M1, it claimed the new devices bested 98 percent of the Wintel laptops unveiled over the past year. But the Intel ecosystem isn’t standing still, as I point out in my column in the Tech section of USA Today. Read that HERE.

Setting aside Apple’s claims for the moment, the latest systems built around 11th-gen Tiger Lake Core processors from Intel easily beat existing systems. In my latest column, I compare responsiveness, performance and battery life of two Lenovo laptops designed to excel at all three: the Yoga 9i, built around Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake Core processor, and the Yoga C940, with its 10th-gen Core CPU. (The Yoga 9i is one of the first with Intel’s Evo branding, which will set systems like these apart going forward.) Read more about what you can expect from systems like the two Lenovo PCs HERE.

In this everything-from-home era, work, learn and play activities are stressing home networks like never before.

Wouldn’t it be great if, when the kids’ online schooling grinds your Zoom presentation to a halt, you could just solve it by sending them – and their laptops and tablets – to their room? That day is coming – and sooner than you think, thanks to a new mesh Wi-Fi technology called Qualcomm Immersive Home. You’ll find it in mesh routers soon.

Find out more in my latest column in the Tech section of USA Today HERE.

Your smartphone will be faster, for sure. But 5G is about so much more than speed. And those new features, which enable seemingly instantaneous response for thousands of times more devices, will pave the way for a whole new class of applications that help cut costs, save energy and keep us safer.

Nowhere, perhaps, are the innovations more evident than in healthcare. Like what? Find out. Check out my column on what 5G will enable in health on Medium.

Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve heard plenty of CIO war stories about the Herculean lifts IT performed to enable work-from-home for desk workers. But for those who absolutely, positively had to show up for work, businesses also had to be sure those front-line workers were safe.

How did they do that? And what are they iterating to ensure that work-from-work environments are safe for front-line workers, and that safety measures are as seamless as possible?

Find out what several companies did – and how they’re planning to iterate what’s already in place – to ensure a safe #WFH environment in the age of COVID-19. Read my latest in USA Today. And for a more comprehensive view, check out my column in CIO Magazine.