While the United States has led the way in adopting the cloud, other developed and developing countries are also starting to embrace the cloud. Much of this growth has come from extensive educational initiatives, including those that Amazon Web Services Inc. is offering throughout the world. “We actually did an event in the Philippines, and ...

The mention of a smart city usually brings to mind imagines of flying cars and science fiction-like landscapes. But as city governments begin to experiment with using technologies like the cloud, big data, and internet of things, what are smart cities really trying to do — and what are they accomplishing? “Governments exist so that they can ...

It was big news when the Central Intelligence Agency made a deal with Amazon Web Services Inc. to begin its cloud initiatives. So why did it  do it, and what has it been learning since? As the former chief technology officer of the CIA, Gus Hunt (pictured), who is currently the managing director of federal services at Accenture PLC, ...

While technology companies compete for sectors within the emerging cloud marketplace, Amazon Web Services Inc. hopes to dominate the field in the public sector — which includes government, education in domestic and international regions. AWS is actively disrupting the public sector in a manner similar to its rapid rise in in the commercial market, in that it’s leaving legacy ...

As the federal government embraces cloud, what are the kinds of questions they’re wrestling with? The biggest concerns are cost efficiency and fast delivery for cloud services, and Nutanix Inc. is rising to the challenge. Dealing with the unique issues that face governmental requirements, Nutanix creates innovative solutions that help the public sector visualize their gains through cloud, according to Dan Fallon (pictured), ...

Computing networks are not going away, but the business world of software development and data storage is changing due to cloud technologies. So how are storage companies adapting to this new world of cloud computing? “The big focal area we have is turning the corner that we’re no longer an infrastructural hardware provider. We’re data management; we’re ...

Empathy, a welcoming community and trust are essential to propelling the burgeoning culture of containers’ virtualized application management technology and its dedicated software developers forward. Discussing these industry-shaping concepts at the recently concluded DockerCon event in San Francisco were Bret Fisher (pictured, right), author of the course “Docker Mastery: The Complete Toolset From a Docker Captain,” and Nirmal Mehta (pictured, ...

It’s an exciting future for technology, with end-to-end visibility throughout a network a true possibility.  And the ways these things have come together is through innovation that goes back years, according to John Apostolopoulos (pictured), vice president and chief technology officer for enterprise networking business and lab director for Innovation Labs at Cisco Systems Inc. “So ...

As developers continue to become the new kingmakers, Cisco Systems Inc. has built up a new developer framework that is being built on top of networks, called Cisco DevNet, that is now 500,000 strong. “When we were pushing it, we were just saying, ‘Hey, the network is changing. The network is going to be programmable. ...

The question may no longer be, “Is cloud worth it?” for modern day businesses. The question may now be, “What kind of cloud is right?” And as technology providers wrestle with how to deliver the best solutions, sometimes collaboration is key. “It used to be that it was a ‘cloud-first strategy,'” said Vinu Thomas (pictured, right), chief technology ...