Users hungry for bandwidth, an explosion of internet of things devices that must connect securely, and a quest for the ultimate immersive experience are all driving wireless connectivity to the limit. A new wireless standard — Wi-Fi 6 — is being deployed to help manage this new reality. “All of those are driving a need for us ...

The software developer community is evolving rapidly in keeping with the frenetic pace of change within the enterprise information technology industry itself. For some attendees at this week’s DevNet Create gathering, what a difference a year makes. “Last year people were talking about doing collaboration applications in a new way,” said Paul Giblin (pictured), enterprise architect and ...

With the developer community on full display during DevNet Create this week, Cisco Systems Inc.’s management team, led by Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins, has demonstrated the appeal of network programmability. That’s in keeping with a promise Cisco’s leader made to one prominent analyst. “One of the very first things Chuck Robbins ever said to ...

Cisco Systems Inc. announced this week that its DevNet developer community had grown to over 585,000 participants, many of whom are attending DevNet Create in Mountain View, California, this week. That community is fueling an important new wave of innovation, not just within Cisco, but in other corners of the technology ecosystem. “The thing with ...

It would be a dream scenario if a “single pane of glass” truly existed for information technology managers to closely monitor every aspect of the enterprise infrastructure. It’s still a dream, which is why Cisco Systems Inc. and ScienceLogic Inc. have both learned a great deal from their 10-year partnership to support infrastructure monitoring in ...

When a slight majority of users know how to take advantage of various technology solutions, yet nearly half cannot, the natural reaction is how to work out a way to bring the rest along. That’s the thinking that put Liberty Technology Inc., a managed service provider, on the DevNet Create event session agenda this week in ...

Presenters during today’s opening keynotes at DevNet Create 2019 in Mountain View, California tossed around a lot of numbers, but one in particular stood out: 585,000. That’s the number of software developers now member to the DevNet community at Cisco Systems Inc. With the stated goal of empowering developers to innovate with the latest technologies, the DevNet ...

A recent report from IDC Research Inc. that tracked vendor revenue in the global enterprise storage systems industry noted that the hybrid flash and all-flash array market grew by nearly a combined $6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, year-over-year. If Infinidat Ltd. has anything to say about it, that number could soon be heading ...

In the 1997 non-fiction book “The Perfect Storm,” which was made into a hit movie three years later, a commercial fishing boat becomes lost at sea after encountering a powerful combination of two potent weather fronts and a hurricane. Prominent technology vendors, such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., are encountering a similar confluence of elements ...

Chief marketing officers at many enterprise firms have seen firsthand the explosion of technology tools and vendors. When the marketing blog Chiefmartec compiled its first graphic in 2011 to chart the martech landscape, the image showed 150 companies. Today, the most recent version lists close to 7,000 vendors. For Micheline Nijmeh (pictured), chief marketing officer of ...