Data cataloging increasingly looks like a good means to turn the losing big-data game in enterprises’ favor. That’s because it’s not inadequate compute power or big-data frameworks holding them back. It might actually be human cognition that needs help — and it comes in the form of data cataloging that understands human language. The buzz about data ...

Just about all vendors in Silicon Valley want to copy the customer-first model that made Amazon Web Services Inc. rich. But how many deliver? What does customer-first really mean? And how can companies make sure it’s more than an empty slogan? Katherine Kostereva (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of bpm’online Ltd. would know. Bpm’ ...

Anyone who’s survived a legal battle of any kind will recall the legal fees involved. They may also recall not knowing what they’d ultimately pay until at last someone handed them an astronomical bill. That is because fees were not precisely assessed out of the gate. Today’s clients are expecting more info on cost upfront. Can big ...

Mentorship programs for women in tech may strike some as all fluff. They may ask, where’s the beef? Do they actually improve employee performance or retention for companies that implement them? In reply, one young founder set out to serve the beef sizzling hot with analytics. Charu Sharma (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of ...

Companies are scrounging for some thread to tie their many cloud services together. One option is Kubernetes, the open-source orchestration platform for containers (a virtualized method for running distributes applications). Another is the use of application program interfaces. In tandem at the networking level, they’re a walloping punch in the face of multicloud complexity.  “You look at a ...

The world’s data just keeps growing, zipping information across global networks in excess of 1 billion gigabytes every month. Add the most advanced artificial intelligence software to date, shake and pour all over everything. The results are better applications, analytics, storage — you name it. Unfortunately, the recipe is not so simple for one area in ...

The cybersecurity threat landscape shifts with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it frequency. Heard of cryptojacking? It’s one relatively new offender on the block. Security pros are fighting it and other threats with telemetry data from network devices like switches. The network increasingly provides a wide window through which to spy on hackers, according to TK Keanini (pictured), distinguished engineer and ...

Application-centric information technology is putting resources like compute, network and storage in their place. New application architectures like microservices and containers (a virtualized method for running distributed apps) are saying, “Jump,” while infrastructure answers, “How high?” Human infrastructure provisioners can’t keep up.  The solution is an intelligent, automatic marketplace from which they can pick their own ...

Network as code , or NaC, isn’t just a fresher, trendier term for software-defined networking. It also means applying infrastructure as code, or IaC, practices to network engineering and administrating. Networking as code has given rise to developer operations specialized for networking. It’s called NetDevOps. It enables agile, application-centric networking for multicloud. IaC methodology configures infrastructure using code rather than ...

Software-defined technologies are often lauded as flexible and customizable, through customer-set policies, etc. Liberally kicking in new application program interfaces can give end users even more options and control. Cisco Systems Inc. is using APIs to satisfy every single last user of its intent-based networking. “We we have gone from … a bottom-up way to build a ...