Security is a major league problem. The potential of cyberattack concerns CEOs and board members as chief security officers scratch their heads over the challenge of securing workloads scattered across diverse environments. Taking a 360 view of the problem is Cisco Systems Inc., as the networking giant pivots toward becoming a software management platform for multicloud environments. ...

“It ain’t what you do; it’s the way that you do it … that’s what gets results” is the ear-wormy lyric from 80’s Brit pop bands Fun Boy Three and Bananarama. Turns out the advice is sound for cloud computing adoption, where the gung-ho cry of “cloud first!” has turned into the more cautious “cloud smart” as ...

Security is the bottleneck slowing the growth of the internet of things. An ever-changing landscape, the complexity of IoT devices and a shortage of cybersecurity specialists have left businesses in a state of solution confusion. “Security has become one of the most dominating factors holding back any growth in IoT,” said Jeff Shiner (pictured), marketing director of IoT solutions ...

Compute has become boring. A necessity with none of the glitz surrounding machine learning, artificial intelligence, or other trending technologies. That doesn’t mean processors aren’t as important as ever, but it does mean a shift in the market as licensing compute makes creating custom hardware a much cheaper and more accessible possibility than investing in traditional ...

Applications are the ravenous beast of today’s dynamic hybrid-cloud environment, causing network demand to spike dramatically in milliseconds. Fiber-optic plans offer high speeds, but most businesses still subscribe to fixed network packages and have not yet recognized the interdependence of storage, compute and network in cloud computing, according to Paul Savill (pictured), senior vice president of core network and technology ...

Hybrid and multicloud computing environments are becoming commonplace in almost every industry, from healthcare to horticulture and academia to the Secret Service. As adoption increases, consumers and enterprise alike are demanding software applications that allow fluid access to the data resources stored and deployed in the cloud. Fueling this accessibility is the convergence of software development ...

A side effect of digital transformation is a resurgence in demand for custom, cloud-friendly software. This comes as businesses realize they need enhanced computing products capable of handling the demands of edge computing, where the internet of things must serve billions of smartphones, tablets, sensors and other end user devices. “You’ve got to understand that when you ...

Not so many years ago cloud security was an oxymoron, with on-premises databases the only way to keep sensitive data secure. Times change fast, and cloud security is now being taken seriously by the biggest names in the business. In a recent interview, Amazon Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy told theCUBE that with Amazon’s S3 storage, ...

Despite doom-and-gloom forecasts of the impending death of their partnership, Dell Technologies Inc. is still Nutanix Inc.’s biggest original equipment manufacturer, and the relationship seems to be growing stronger as Dell supports Nutanix’ move into cloud-native services. “We’re going to be the best hardware infrastructure solution for the Nutanix stack,” stated Dan McConnell (pictured), vice president of ...

Securing physical data centers on physical hosts was a very different game than today’s task of securing the increasingly abstract attack surface across modern, cloud-native applications. As speed of deployment and ease of scale take center stage, application security must be addressed from the get-go, or developers risk leaving an open door that potentially exposes a treasure ...