Build or buy? That's the typical discussion around network automation. In reality, however, the discussion is more involved and nuanced than that. Every project today has some open source. It drives ...

As networking continues to expand and diversify, encompassing a growing number of wired and wireless devices, the demand for network monitoring tools remains high. While feature-packed commercial ...

This summer was certainly not slack-off time for Network World testers, as our Lab Alliance experts were busy testing and writing up test results on several Linux and open source products over the ...

Open-source software tools are increasing in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

In a recent Businessweek article, an IBM exec pointed out that “Today, the amount of information we produce increases by about 800 megabytes per year for every man, woman, and child on the planet.” ...

There are a handful of leading commercial toolmakers to help IT detect and respond to system outages and application failures, commonly referred to as "incident management and response," including ...

Computerworld recently showcased 10 great free network management tools. Readers responded with some of their own favorites, so I’m going to take a look at those tools and report on their capabilities ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...