Cisco Systems Inc. made a series of announcements at its Cisco Live EU conference today in Barcelona that were designed to help its customers deliver and monitor applications from the edge to cloud. The networking giant is leveraging its application monitoring software — AppDynamics — along with an Intersight Workload Optimizer tool to optimize the infrastructure where ...

Big fish eat smaller fish, and in the annals of corporate acquisitions, Cisco Systems Inc. has a well-documented, king-sized appetite. Since its founding in 1984, Cisco has acquired more than 200 firms, an average of approximately six per year. The company’s acquisition strategy has been the subject of Harvard case studies, detailed media profiles and continual ...

Cars have basically become computers on wheels, and there is one startup company that wants to give “feeling the road” a whole new meaning. Tactile Mobility Ltd. was founded eight years ago with a mission to fill a missing gap for smart and autonomous vehicles. While advances in automotive technology resulted in a comprehensive visual-based ...

It would be nice if imported open-source code arrived vulnerability free, but that’s not how the real world works. Code can have hidden traps, and corporate cybersecurity organizations are often too busy putting out fires to effectively monitor open-source integrations for cleverly disguised viruses or malware. So, why not put security tools in the hands ...

In 2011, the co-creator of GitLab Inc., Dmitriy Zaporozhets, found himself working for a software company in the Ukraine, and he had a choice to make: Bring running water to his home and avoid daily trips to the communal well, or create a collaboration tool to make the lives of software developers easier. He chose the latter, and ...

What can’t be seen also can’t be protected. That’s why NetScout Systems Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. have teamed up to provide customers with a networking security feature to improve security. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic Mirroring enables AWS customers to replicate network traffic from an EC2 instance and forward it to security appliances for ...

As network technology continues to change, so have the roles and responsibilities of the people assigned to ensure its smooth operation. Information-technology organizations are now integral parts of any enterprise, and the role of network operations staff has evolved to a place of much greater responsibility for business success. And that starts with a complete ...

With its responsibility for network monitoring and service assurance, NetScout Systems Inc. works with customers around the world to support data-center transformation, a move from centralized information-technology operations into the new world of multicloud and edge computing. It’s familiar territory for the company, because NetScout has made this transition as well. “We’ve transitioned from this ...

One of the co-founders of the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator once termed the struggles of entrepreneurs to launch a business the “trough of sorrow.” As he was trying to run an independent video game business, entrepreneur Ian Tien suddenly found himself waist deep in that trough. Tien (pictured) had built his business on a messaging ...

When Microsoft Corp. acquired GitHub in June 2018 for $7.5 billion, the move represented more than just a shift in the world of open-source software development platforms. The acquisition highlighted the role that developers now played in the enterprise choice of cloud, a reality validated by GitLab Inc.’s own chief executive, Sid Sijbrandij, at the ...