Company executives at the Cisco Live event in San Diego kicked off the conference today by pointing out that this year marked the 30th anniversary of the event. It was actually called “Networkers” back in 1989, and Cisco Systems Inc. has shown it aims to survive the significant transition that has taken place in the technology world from ...

This article, and hundreds of millions of others, are viewable online across the globe because 30 years ago a computer scientist took a break from his research group’s work in particle physics to tinker with a new way to manage and share information. That group was the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN; the computer scientist was Tim ...

During a recent interview in advance of Cisco Systems Inc.’s major conference this month in San Diego, Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins plainly had a couple of things he wanted to get off his chest. One, people should not underestimate the complicated challenge Cisco has faced as a hardware company moving to the cloud, something ...

Whether it involves online search or troubleshooting a thorny systems error, the name of the game is speed. Yet, in a world where a navigation bar can deliver an answer for “today’s weather” or “the derivative of square root by sine X of first principles” in less than the blink of an eye, finding the ...

When does free technology become worth $10 trillion? When the company is Red Hat Inc. and its open-source software and applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux contribute to $10 trillion worth of global business revenues this year. That’s the conclusion from an International Data Corp. study released during the company’s major annual gathering in Boston ...

At the conclusion of the Red Hat Summit in Boston today, Red Hat Inc.’s chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, could be forgiven if he was feeling a little weary from being hugged. He was embraced by IBM Corp., whose own top executive, Ginni Rometty, took the stage and promised to keep Whitehurst’s company independent after shelling out $34 billion ...

The .NEXT annual conference for Nutanix Inc. is being held in Anaheim, California, this week, mere steps away from Disneyland, so it was only a mild surprise when attendees saw the “Star Wars” films’ Luke Skywalker, played by actor Mark Hamill, on the keynote stage. Hamill’s appearance drove home an important point for the company. ...

From his position as the chief technology officer for Red Hat Inc., Chris Wright (pictured) can see a future when self-tuning platforms will scale as the need grows. This is autonomic computing or autonomous clouds, and it’s not as far away as it might seem. “We’ve been working towards autonomic computing for decades,” Wright said. ...

Predicting the future is always a tricky proposition, even for a multi-billion-dollar business like IBM Corp. Yet, company executives felt strongly that the enterprise computing world would become increasingly hybrid, a belief that drove the firm to acquire Red Hat Inc. for $34 billion in October. “The world is going to move towards containers, the world ...

Nutanix Inc. has built its business around hyperconverged infrastructure appliances and software-defined storage. Yet the company is increasingly facing pressure to expand its enterprise footprint in competition with major players such as Dell Technologies Inc. and its majority-owned VMware Inc. Founded in September 2009, Nutanix will celebrate its milestone decade by being as nimble at ...