On Tuesday, Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it was launching an integrated architecture to extend intent-based networking to the internet of things at the edge. By creating a consistent set of configurations and grouping devices, manual set-ups required for each separate device goes away, which makes it far easier now to scale IoT networks. “Intent-based ...

As major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC moved to capture enterprise market share over the past few years, observers of Cisco Systems Inc. openly speculated that the networking company was in danger of being left behind. Cisco’s answer has been to retool its business model to manage ...

WANdisco PLC has made a big bet that the enterprise computing space over the next decade will be focused on moving massive amounts of data between multiple clouds. So far, there has been little evidence to prove the software specialist in distributed computing wrong. A survey of attendees at AWS re:Invent in November, which was released ...

If Cisco Systems Inc. is to reap the benefits from its investment in resource management and network automation across the cloud computing landscape, it will need support from its partner network. The channel relationships that the networking giant has built over the years are a familiar resource to Wendy Mars (pictured), who stepped into her ...

Cisco Systems Inc.’s announcement today that it would extend its Application Centric Infrastructure, or ACI, into Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services clouds added another chapter in the networking company’s continued journey to become a key player in the multicloud world. “The role of hyperconvergence is certainly key in the announcements today,” John Furrier (@furrier), co-host ...

Adam Cheyer has a dream — and given that he sold his two previous companies to Steve Jobs and Samsung, it would be wise not to dismiss his ambition. Cheyer is the co-creator of Siri, the pioneering intelligent personal assistant technology that was purchased by Apple Inc. in 2010. He is also the co-founder of ...

Data scientists in the machine learning community have a growing skills gap, and it will take some serious technology to fix it. Google Cloud executive Rajen Sheth recently voiced his agreement with estimates that the number of machine learning engineers capable of moving deep learning from concept to production equals a few thousand. But there ...

When IBM Corp. acquired Red Hat Inc. in October for $34 billion — a deal voted for approval this week — it gained more than just a successful open-source company. What IBM bought was a set of key enterprise computing tools, many of which revolve around the Kubernetes container management platform, that could propel the ...

For many participants in the world of financial technology, 2018 was a year to forget. The market for initial coin offerings ground to a halt, buffeted by regulatory issues and a steep collapse in value. Miners have come under fire for the massive amounts of electricity used to mint new coins. Questions plagued the security ...

In the 160-character-fueled, fail-fast and break-things culture of the technology world, perspective is often in short supply. Judy Estrin thinks she knows how to fix that problem. The Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur can offer a broader view of the industry because she has been part of the tech world since the early days of the internet. ...