Venture funded Lacework Inc. emerged from stealth mode in 2017 with the industry’s first zero-touch cloud workload security platform. As it has grown adoption of its services in companies large and small, Lacework has seen many of its customers struggle with the challenge of melding sound security practices within a fast-moving DevOps culture. “Every company ...

As Cisco Systems Inc. continues to build relations with enterprise developers, particularly through its growing DevNet program, the company is paying close attention to what that audience needs. This focus can be seen in how Cisco has enhanced its CloudCenter Suite. Since January, the company made the platform available globally in a software-as-a-service deployment and ...

Dell EMC’s Data Domain, the purpose-built, backup array leader according to IDC Research Inc., has been rebranded and retooled as a bigger, faster system. Now part of the recently launched PowerProtect DD Series, the technology has been enhanced for speed, security, efficiency, and multicloud data protection. “With the improvements that we’ve made with instant access ...

Less than 10% … that’s how many artificial-intelligence test projects are estimated to be deployed into full-scale production in enterprise environments, according to a recent report from the International Institute for Analytics. There are a number of reasons for this surprisingly small amount, including an overwhelming amount of data and the lack of easy-to-use tools ...

There are not many tech startups that emerge from stealth mode with a chairman who formerly ran one of the leading networking companies in the world or whose founders accounted for literally billions in value for the chairman’s previous business. Yet that’s indeed the story behind Pensando Systems Inc., a programmable, edge-accelerated platform that emerged from ...

One company transports people in 600 cities around the world, and the other connects 2.37 billion monthly active users online through social media. Both may soon be found at the center of a significant transformation of the global financial industry. Ridesharing provider Uber Technologies Inc. and social media giant Facebook Inc. each made news in ...

As the chairman of a startup company that just launched out of stealth, John Chambers, former chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc. and CEO of J2 Ventures, is delighted about the prospects for his fledgling business and passionate about the need for educational change in his own country. Led by a number of former ...

Splunk Inc. first joined the Amazon Web Services Inc. Partner Network in 2012, and the two companies have been pursuing opportunities to collaborate ever since. This collaboration has included ways that security products and services offered by both firms can be effectively integrated into enterprise customer environments. In addition to joint projects involving the use ...

Part of the success formula in today’s fast-paced tech world is coming out with tools before the industry knows it needs them. For a company such as HashiCorp Inc., a bet on providing products to feed the trend to DevOps that melds application development with information technology operations staff is beginning to pay off. Developers ...

Artificial intelligence is getting personal. Advances in massive data gathering and processing, coupled with wholesale leaps in machine processing power are setting the stage for a world where AI could closely simulate the human brain and become ingrained in many aspects of daily life. How soon that becomes reality could depend a lot on the humans ...