Shortly after its founding in 2004, wireless network provider Xirrus Inc. saw that Wi-Fi use and demand were growing faster than the infrastructure to support it. It began developing technology to scale, provision and orchestrate Wi-Fi for large numbers of users. The company recently met its match in Riverbed Technology Inc., which saw Xirrus’ Local Area ...

Software-Defined Networking frees network administrators from constant tinkering with individual boxes. It allows admins to view and program the network from a central software consul. This new agility could elevate the network and its admins to a higher business and operational function, according to Joshua Dobies (pictured, left), vice president of product marketing at Riverbed Technology Inc. Dobies joined Vivek Ganti (pictured, ...

Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services Inc. have redefined application deployment for many businesses. In a matter of hours, developers can spin up applications that might have taken days or weeks in the past. If cloud can do this for apps, what can it do for networking? Riverbed Technology Inc.’s answer is its software-defined wide ...

After James Damore’s infamous memo criticizing Google Inc.’s diversity programs hit the public eye Aug. 5, the furor was palpable. Within days, Damore was fired, and his very public battle with the technology giant since then ignited a furious discussion of how and even whether the participation of women and other underrepresented groups in the tech ...

Serverless computing buzz has steadily grown in the last couple of years, now eclipsing even containers, according to some tech analysts. Based on cloud computing, it takes the infrastructure abstraction and application-focus of cloud even further. But what does “serverless” really mean? Is it more than a marketing label stickered on a bunch of different ...

Behemoths Amazon Web Services Inc., Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure might not have the entire cloud market cornered after all. Having tried large public clouds, some businesses find they lack crucial management oversight, according to Mike Franco (pictured, right), principal solution architect at Virtustream Inc. “Clients are saying, ‘That was good, but as we ...

While containers’ virtualized method for running distributed software applications has hogged the spotlight for the past couple of years, some technology experts quietly predicted that one day soon, serverless computing will take containers’ place as the best thing happening in next-generation applications. That day is today — at least if conversations at this week’s AWS Summit in New York City ...

Cloud used to be a hard sell to chief security officers. Now vendors like Amazon Web Services Inc. are bringing them around. Cloud can, in fact, strengthen data security and elevate CSOs from infrastructure to higher code and development levels, according to Bill Shinn (pictured), principal security solutions architect at AWS. “You have DevOps and now ...

Note to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud competitors: To win customers from AWS, stop worrying about AWS. Just listen to customers. That’s how AWS has become the 800-pound gorilla — or better yet, cheetah — in the room. Borrowing a phrase from Wikibon Inc. chief analyst Dave Vellante, Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, right), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s ...

In financial services, staying on information technology’s cutting edge isn’t always practical. New technology like cloud may sound fantastic at first — until the security and compliance team weighs in. “We’ve got very sensitive data that we’ve got to make sure doesn’t go away, doesn’t get breached and doesn’t become generally available to the world,” ...