The job of a site reliability engineer, also known as an SRE, is typically characterized as bringing engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems, with a focus on creating reliable and scalable systems. What most SRE job descriptions fail to add is that the job also requires an ability similar to that of a firefighter ...

With every complicated business application that goes into production today, another case can be made for the low-code/no-code movement. The reason is that low-code and no-code platforms offer small components as an easier way to build larger application architectures. That’s becoming an increasingly attractive option for enterprises that must now develop software in-house, and one ...

There is a story about the time John Chambers (pictured), former chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., had a conversation with Jack Welch, the legendary top executive for General Electric. At the time the two spoke in 2000, Cisco and Chambers were riding high. “He said: ‘John, you have a very good company,’” Chambers ...

In 2001, an executive at Red Hat Inc. who was then in charge of products and technologies for the open-source company urged his chief executive officer to make a big bet on big business with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL. Nineteen years and the company’s acquisition for $34 billion later, that executive is now running Red ...

Some companies in the tech world get bought and sold, like sports trading cards at an auction, and are never seen again. And then there are a fortunate few, such as Vertica Product Group, now part of Micro Focus International PLC, which survive and thrive. Despite some ups and downs along the way, Vertica is ...

As the coronavirus began to spread across the world in February, one of the companies that could track its migration on a daily basis was Cisco Systems Inc. That’s because the networking giant’s portfolio included Webex, a video collaboration tool. Suddenly, Cisco began to see a sharp rise in usage from China as businesses closed and ...

In normal times, asking the chief executive officer of a major technology company what keeps him or her up at night would generally elicit responses ranging from profitability and customer growth to innovation and the pursuit of digital transformation. But these are not normal times. “What keeps me up at night now and how I ...

With a majority of schools and institutions of higher learning around the world currently operating in virtual space, there may be no better opportunity for programs geared from the start for online education. And one of those programs is the Minerva Project. Started in 2012, Minerva was created with the goal of reinventing higher education ...

As a key video collaboration tool, Webex was never set up to connect the entire world all at once. Yet, along with other video communications platforms, Cisco Systems Inc. is dealing with unprecedented usage volume for its collaboration solution as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The service racked up 5.5 billion meeting minutes during ...

Before most of the world was forced to move online and work from home, there were glimpses into what doing business remotely could look like. An example can be found in the experience of a university professor who was conducting an interview with the BBC from his South Korea home in 2017. When his two ...