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With the developer community on full display during DevNet Create this week, Cisco Systems Inc.’s management team, led by Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins, has demonstrated the appeal of network programmability. That’s in keeping with a promise Cisco’s leader made to one …
Innovation unleashed: Cisco’s DevNet focuses on Wi-Fi 6, edge computing and GPUs everywhere
Cisco Systems Inc. announced this week that its DevNet developer community had grown to over 585,000 participants, many of whom are attending DevNet Create in Mountain View, California, this week. That community is fueling an important new wave of innovation, not just …
In ‘Lord of the Infrastructure,’ one solution does not rule all at Cisco
It would be a dream scenario if a “single pane of glass” truly existed for information technology managers to closely monitor every aspect of the enterprise infrastructure. It’s still a dream, which is why Cisco Systems Inc. and ScienceLogic Inc. have both …
Liberty Technology orchestrates the 45-percent collaborative solution
When a slight majority of users know how to take advantage of various technology solutions, yet nearly half cannot, the natural reaction is how to work out a way to bring the rest along. That’s the thinking that put Liberty Technology Inc., …
Developer collaboration is changing the face of Cisco, say analysts
Presenters during today’s opening keynotes at DevNet Create 2019 in Mountain View, California tossed around a lot of numbers, but one in particular stood out: 585,000. That’s the number of software developers now member to the DevNet community at Cisco Systems Inc. With the …
To Infinidat and beyond: Array vendor takes on multi-billion storage systems market
A recent report from IDC Research Inc. that tracked vendor revenue in the global enterprise storage systems industry noted that the hybrid flash and all-flash array market grew by nearly a combined $6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, year-over-year. If …
HPE adds new resource to help channel partners navigate seas of transformation
In the 1997 non-fiction book “The Perfect Storm,” which was made into a hit movie three years later, a commercial fishing boat becomes lost at sea after encountering a powerful combination of two potent weather fronts and a hurricane. Prominent technology vendors, …
The martech tool explosion: balancing tech and the human connection
Chief marketing officers at many enterprise firms have seen firsthand the explosion of technology tools and vendors. When the marketing blog Chiefmartec compiled its first graphic in 2011 to chart the martech landscape, the image showed 150 companies. Today, the most recent version …
Automation for all: RPA startup aims to bring AI to everyone
Some hot tech startups attract a lot of money. A few attract partnerships from major industry players eager to get a piece of the action before the big money moves in. And then there is that seldom-seen third option, where a robotic …
Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy: still on the front row of innovation
Since his arrival as an assistant professor of electrical engineering on the campus of Stanford University in 1977, John Hennessy has witnessed a lot of technology history. Hennessy (pictured) went on to become chief architect of Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s, saw …