Code and compute might be changed around to improve end-users’ experience, but the network is the network, right? Actually, the application-first ethos is spreading to networking now with Software-Defined Wide Area Network, according to Davis Johnson (pictured), vice president and head of the U.S. public sector at Riverbed Technology Inc. “We call it application-defined networking,” Johnson ...

With Pure Storage Inc.’s recent grabs at artificial intelligence and big data software markets, it might soon have to drop “storage” from its name, according to Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of marketing and product management at Pure Storage. Recalling Kixmoeller’s prediction during an interview at the Pure//Accelerate event this week in San Francisco, California, Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured) and David ...

However Amazon Web Services Inc. may struggle in selling cloud to glacier-paced government agencies, at least one of those that readers may have heard of — the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency — just vouched for it at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. CIA Chief Information Officer John Edwards said from the conference ...

Traditional enterprises trying to serve better software before some fresh-from-college coders Uberize — aka disrupt — them are turning out to be cash cows for Pivotal Software Inc.’s Cloud Foundry Foundation, its cloud-native platform for deploying and operating modern applications. This is evident in stories from some of the users at this week’s Cloud Foundry Summit ...

Finding and hiring talented developers is difficult and expensive; hiring cloud-native enterprise application developers, specifically, is even tougher, according to Abby Kearns (pictured), executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, a nonprofit, open-source project that aims to make Cloud Foundry the leading application platform for cloud computing worldwide. Scaling back feverish headhunting, some savvy companies are ...

In 2013, the Central Intelligence Agency awarded a $600-million contract to Amazon Web Services Inc., seriously ticking off competitor IBM Corp., which took it all the way to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. “The judge in the ruling actually said, ‘Amazon has a better product.’ That was what I call the shot heard around the ...

Pivotal Software Inc.’s open-source development platform Cloud Foundry might be more enterprise-ready than Docker Inc.‘s virtualized container method for running distributed applications. But do its extra parts make it harder to assimilate? “I’m struck again by some similar messaging about developer experience and agile,” John Troyer (@jtroyer) (pictured, right) told Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, left), as the co-hosts ...

Do stacks of paperwork detailing security and compliance regulations keep talented innovators out of government agencies that badly need them? “There’s a lot of great people in the public sector who love their job. If they don’t give them the tools, you’re going to continue to see what I call a brain drain go on ...

The Internet of Things. Edge computing. Artificial intelligence. Invoking all those trends during a keynote presentation today, Pure Storage Inc. sounded more like a cloud provider than a storage company. It’s no coincidence, thinks Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, left), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio. “That legacy change to new distributed architectures has been ...

Despite the kinks still tying up Internet of Things maturation — slow networks and inadequate compute at the edge, for instance — apparently, some companies are already finding success with the right mix of technologies. “Ten years ago we had about 80,000 meter reads we did a day, and it took 400 people to do that; ...