A survey last year by a software intelligence company revealed that three out of four chief information officers felt that complexity in the enterprise cloud had made information technology way too hard to manage. Today, IBM Corp. took steps to address that issue where it involved storage. The company announced a new family of IBM ...

Among the many announcements from Cisco Live in Barcelona was the news that Cisco System Inc. would release Terraform support for application-centric infrastructure, or ACI. This recent move by Cisco, in concert with HashiCorp Inc., highlighted a continued need for solutions to bring up and configure ACI in a muticloud world. Whether on-premises or in ...

In the 1960s, the Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohías wrote a comic strip for Mad magazine called “Spy vs. Spy.” It featured one character dressed in white and one in black who were continually at war with each other, inflicting harm and alternating between victory and defeat. At the time, Prohías’ cartoon was a commentary on the ...

Worldwide spending on customer relationship management software crossed the $48-billion mark over the past year. However, a recent survey conducted by Whatfix found that 40% of responding enterprises that didn’t regularly use CRM systems claimed that data entry was too time consuming, and nearly the same percentage needed more training. To address this issue, Whatfix ...

Some companies steadily build toward an initial public offering, while others stay private. Then there’s AppDynamics Inc. which called off its IPO practically at the last minute in 2017 when Cisco Systems Inc. dangled a check for $3.7 billion. What led Cisco to proffer an eyebrow-raising sum of money, more than twice the estimated IPO valuation, ...

The webpage for Cisco DevNet, the developer program for Cisco Systems Inc., could easily be mistaken for a tutorial on key elements of the computing world in general. Developers can explore DevNet’s various “platforms,” ranging from the “internet of things,” cloud and networking to security, mobility, the data center, open source, and much more. It’s ...

There’s a growing realization among leaders in the cybersecurity community that 2020 will be the year of significant legislative action to protect user data. The problem is that safeguarding data may actually be harder than ever. “There’s more activity, more concern and more acknowledgment of privacy now than I have seen in the last 30 ...

Point products have created a feeling of “tool fatigue” for many enterprises today, especially when it comes to security. Cybersecurity infrastructure has grown significantly for many organizations, and Cisco Systems Inc. has responded to this concern around too many tools with a simplified platform containing zero trust, cloud endpoint, and breach defense capabilities. This should ...

When Cisco Systems Inc. acquired Voicea Inc. last year, the move prompted speculation around how the firm’s technology would enhance its Webex product. This week, Cisco delivered an answer. The company announced at its Cisco Live event in Barcelona that it would integrate Voicea’s technology into its Webex video collaboration platform, providing users with speech recognition ...

When the clock struck midnight on January 1, a new decade commenced with four U.S. technology companies at or very close to the $1 trillion mark in valuation. The question on the table for the next eight to 10 years is whether Apple Corp., Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and Amazon Inc. will manage to stay ...