Software-Defined Networking disrupted the network into many fragments. Now, the open-source community must package for real-world users, according to Arpit Joshipura (pictured), general manager of networking and orchestration at The Linux Foundation. It is hard to believe that just five years ago the network was basically a black box, Joshipura said during the Cisco DevNet Create event ...

Internet of Things and cloud applications raise fuzzy questions about the underlying architecture of information technology: Do IoT apps run on infrastructure? How do cloud apps mesh with infrastructure? Could IoT in fact be the infrastructure? “It’s all still evolving, and we think that the community needs to come together to solve this to make the ...

Network as a service isn’t new, and programmable infrastructure has been a buzzword for years. So what is the inaugural Cisco DevNet Create event in San Francisco, California, inaugurating besides an excuse for techies to take off work for two days? The answer might be high availability of programmable networking as-a-service, particularly to developers, Peter Burris (@plburris) ...

Airbnb Inc. didn’t have better rooms than hotels (or even better rates lately), but it did have a much better software application. This is a cautionary tale for enterprises that think they don’t need to develop software because their products alone are good enough. “Investing in technology and software, in particular, allows you to differentiate your ...

With its acquisition of AppDynamics Inc. application performance management software, Cisco Systems Inc. appears to be trying to catch the digital transformation wave before it crashes. What this transformation actually means for the market, however, remains hazy. For certain, digital transformation has data and cloud (particularly DevOps) as its two main, swirling currents, according to John ...

Perhaps the only thing harder than staying abreast of fast-changing technology is housing that technology in a consumer product with enough utility and style to ensure decent shelf life before the market moves on. Host of the product raffle at the Association for Corporate Growth in Silicon Valley’s U.S. Trust GROW! Awards in Mountain View, California, was ...

Innovative might be the one word most often applied to the best technology entrepreneurs, but the term actually encompasses an entire set of work ethics, according to John Kao (pictured), founder, chairman and chief executive officer of EdgeMakers Inc. The image of innovation in the popular imagination as a light bulb suddenly shining over a person’s head is ...

Last year, Association for Corporate Growth sponsor Peaxy Inc. nabbed a Gartner Cool Vendor award for its work in industrial unstructured data access. Peaxy has continued its efforts to innovate in this highly specialized area, according to Manuel Terranova (pictured), the company’s chief executive officer. “Data access, which is what we’re focusing on, is giving subject matter ...

How have several decades forecasting technology as a journalist and author tuned Santa Clara University professor Michael Malone’s Silicon Valley radar? Asked what companies and technologies will blow up come 2020, he nearly interrupted Lisa Martin (@Luccazara), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, in an interview at the ACG Silicon Valley U.S. Trust GROW! Awards. (* ...

Being private has allowed Informatica LLC to take risks developing products. And now its ambitious re-branding is aligning its image with said products, according to Bruce Chizen (pictured), executive chair and special adviser on Informatica’s board. “Being private is great, because we get to do things you couldn’t do as a public company,” Chizen told John Furrier (@furrier) ...