Today’s tech devices offer different features and user services, but there are at least two elements common to every product. They all run on processors and need storage. Most smartphone users have no idea what kind of flash storage runs on their device, but it has become increasingly important as mobile applications require high-speed performance ...

A steady stream of announcements from the Cisco Live gathering in Barcelona last week provided a clear message that Cisco Systems Inc. was positioning itself to take multicloud programmability to the edge, accompanied by a suite of solutions to automate distributed computing. It was a significant change for a company that had spent the better ...

Any doubts about Cisco Systems Inc.’s commitment to providing products and services for the internet of things space were quickly erased in Barcelona, Spain, this past week. The networking giant rolled out a series of announcements during its Cisco Live gathering designed to offer intent-based networking at the edge, where a preponderance of IoT devices ...

Guiding the information technology operation of a Fortune 100 company can be a challenge even when times are relatively stable. Throw in the transformation of Cisco Systems Inc. from being a network hardware company to one that capitalizes on advances in software and artificial intelligence, and you have new challenges, particularly building a staff with ...

Companies that put the data house in order as part of privacy regulation in Europe last year realized tangible benefits for the business and have experienced shorter sales cycles and a lesser impact of data breaches as a result. That’s part of the key findings from the 2019 Data Privacy Benchmark Study released in January ...

Anyone who starts a new organization would likely be quite happy to grow by 100,000 members a year. Since Cisco Systems Inc.’s DevNet developer program was launched in 2014, it has since exceeded 500,000 participants, testimony to the company’s cultivation of both the developer community and a new business model focused on application development. “These are ...

If the current state of the cybersecurity world could be captured as a weather forecast it would be cloudy with occasional periods of crankiness and despair. Loss of data privacy is a foregone conclusion. The rise of digital currencies has opened huge holes for theft. And cybercriminals are getting smarter, better-organized and well-funded. Although this ...

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 ...