The market for telco/communication service providers is poised to either jump on the software-defined, virtualization bandwagon or get left in the dust. The coming of speedy 5G wireless networks and demand for data mobile services will likely force telco companies to finally cross the chasm, and Pensa Inc. is more than happy to escort them through ...

When movie director Brett Leonard made “Lawnmower Man” in 1992, the premise of the science-fiction film was quite a stretch on the believability scale. A simple-minded gardener develops telekinetic powers and controls the world’s most powerful computer systems after participating in virtual reality games. Made for an absurdly low budget of $5 million, the film ...

Accenture PLC released its “Technology Vision 2018” report on Wednesday, predicting key technology trends that will disrupt business over the coming three years. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence is expected to play a major role. The report also documented how rapid advancements in areas such as the cloud and analytics are changing not only the ways ...

If indeed the past is prologue, then technology startups got both a major history lesson and a curriculum for the future this week at the Startup Grind 2018 conference in Redwood City, California. Perhaps it was the unconventional setting — a restored movie theater originally built in 1929 — or maybe it was the appearance of several major ...

Vehicles that pull into the driveway at Knightscope Inc.’s corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, often come to a dead stop. That’s because a robot, which looks something like R2-D2 of “Star Wars” fame, is positioned squarely at the entrance. Soon, the robot rolls quietly aside after a brief time assessing who is visiting the ...

The tagline at Cisco Live’s DevNet Zone in Barcelona, Spain, last month was visibly posted throughout the venue. Attendees couldn’t miss encouragement to “Learn, Code, Inspire and Connect” as they received hands-on experience with application program interfaces in classes, demos, learning labs, workshops, panels and mini-hacks. The zone was part of Cisco Systems Inc.’s evolving ...

Some user group meetings are about cloud technology. Some cover meaty topics like cybersecurity and the hyperconverged infrastructure. Then there is the Virtualization Technology User Group’s January gathering where speakers talk about all of the above and one other subject — the New England Patriots. Held in the Patriot’s home — Gillette Stadium — VTUG ...

When infrastructure as a service provider Outscale Inc. unveiled its TINA On-Premise technology in 2016, the company made it clear that it intended to compete with major cloud providers. But in doing so, the French company decided it would also compete through an alliance with two major U.S. firms, becoming the first Cisco Systems Inc. Unified ...

It’s called the HyperCloud, and it’s Linxdatacenter’s process for creating private, public and hybrid clouds and letting them communicate with each other through dedicated channels. Announced in the middle of 2017, the technology for HyperCloud — supplied by Cisco’s HyperFlex hardware and Veeam’s availability solutions — resulted in less time spent to deploy cloud systems or ...

With an eye towards the promising hyperconverged infrastructure market, NetApp Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. are fine-tuning a joint project that boosts computing hardware with all-flash technologies. FlexPod, the next-generation converged infrastructure solution produced from a collaboration between NetApp and Cisco, has been gradually calibrated by both companies over the past eight years. The latest tweak ...