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Subscription model: friend or foe to software vendors?
Software vendors moving to the subscription model are feeling customers’ breath on their necks as contracts are easy to slip out of and competitors stand by. To cut losses, they ought to pump up customer support and bundle it with products, according to Ansa Sekharan, executive vice president of global customer support and Informatica University at Informatica LLC. ...
Partners cook a software mixed bag into a vertical solution, says Informatica
Rather than read the same sales script to each prospect, channel partners can show customers how a new product, combined with the ones they have, can sing a unique tune, according to Rodney Foreman (pictured), senior vice president of partner ecosystem at Informatica LLC. “We’re seeing a lot of new opportunity and a lot of new customers ...
Data from up and down the stack meet and shake hands via API, says Splunk
As developers reach down the stack and network engineers stretch upward, they must meet in the middle with visible, integrated data from both ends, according to Wissam Ali-Ahmad(pictured), lead solutions architect at Splunk Inc. “You need visibility to everything, and Splunk is that platform where you have access to all that data throughout all,” Ali-Ahmad said ...
How software DevOps took this company from ‘racks to riches’
Software is eating the world — and it was eating Costa Rica-based Altus Consulting LLC’s customers, according to Chief Innovation Officer Jose Bogarin Solano (pictured). “People from Cisco call it a racks to riches story,” Solano said of his company’s hybridizing its Cisco Systems Inc. hardware reselling business with software development. Competing Cisco partners in Altus’ ...
Can DevOps make over network engineers into coders?
Software developers are now plying their trade deep down the stack with programmable networks, so why not give network engineers some Representational State Transfer (known as REST) application program interfaces (and perhaps hoodies) and make them developers? “One of the things in DevNet we’re working on is what we call the evolution of a network engineer,” said Amanda ...
A programmable container network so easy operations can do it?
How does the “software supply chain” — AKA the transiting code inside of containers — link the skills and knowledge gaps between developers and operations people? “We really want to sort of start with the developer,” said Bradley Wong (pictured), director of product management at Docker Inc. The logic is that developers have the most arcane skills ...
Can the open-source network buzz grow up into enterprise-ready solutions?
Software-Defined Networking disrupted the network into many fragments. Now, the open-source community must package for real-world users, according to Arpit Joshipura (pictured), general manager of networking and orchestration at The Linux Foundation. It is hard to believe that just five years ago the network was basically a black box, Joshipura said during the Cisco DevNet Create event ...
Wait, what? An Internet of Things app is infrastructure?
Internet of Things and cloud applications raise fuzzy questions about the underlying architecture of information technology: Do IoT apps run on infrastructure? How do cloud apps mesh with infrastructure? Could IoT in fact be the infrastructure? “It’s all still evolving, and we think that the community needs to come together to solve this to make the ...
How low can you go? Full-stack developers dive into programmable networks
Network as a service isn’t new, and programmable infrastructure has been a buzzword for years. So what is the inaugural Cisco DevNet Create event in San Francisco, California, inaugurating besides an excuse for techies to take off work for two days? The answer might be high availability of programmable networking as-a-service, particularly to developers, Peter Burris (@plburris) ...
Can an app make or break it in an always-on world?
Airbnb Inc. didn’t have better rooms than hotels (or even better rates lately), but it did have a much better software application. This is a cautionary tale for enterprises that think they don’t need to develop software because their products alone are good enough. “Investing in technology and software, in particular, allows you to differentiate your ...