5G, Wi-Fi6 and automation are hot topics as the technology industry continues to wrestle with the demands for larger bandwidths. And while some might not believe in the importance of more bandwidth, Gordon Thomson (pictured, left), vice president of global sales, enterprise networking, at Cisco Systems Inc., and Michael Beesley (pictured, right), chief technology officer of service provider ...

As automation gains interest throughout the enterprise, it’s changing the way businesses operate their computing infrastructures, freeing up time to focus technology resources on new ways to grow. This automated “gift of time,” along with other advancements such as multicloud solutions and 5G networks, ensure faster and faster growth — if a company can truly get on board. So what ...

The digital transformation has been the buzzword of the past five years, but as enterprises try to implement enormous technological initiatives around big data and the cloud, it takes a lot of dialogue to define specific digital innovation needs — especially data storage. While storage used to become highly fragmented — tier-one storage, midrange storage, object storage, etc. ...

Midrange storage systems remain a significant part of every enterprise computing strategy, especially in current markets driven by digital data assets. So even while software was eating the world, hardware must manage to keep up. Today’s customer expects a storage appliance to do more than just house data. “Especially in the midrange, our customers expect the ...

As digital transformation continues to disrupt enterprise operations, a parallel shift is happening in the chief information officer role. Today’s rapid evolution of technology services means CIOs too must be agile and react in real-time. As both witness and recipient of  this evolving landscape, the role of the CIO now doubles as evangelist for change. “[There are] completely different expectations,” Graeme Thompson (pictured), ...

It’s been five busy years in the tech industry since the Kubernetes open-source container-orchestration system was founded, earning crucial contributions from developers to quickly become a de facto standard across all major cloud platform providers. Sharing their perspectives on Kubernetes’ wildly successful ecosystem are some of its earliest contributors, there from the very beginning of the ...

Considered by many to be the sage and the historian of the technology industry, Bruce Chizen (pictured), board member and special advisor at Informatica LLC, has an impressive decades-long career. He has worked at Microsoft and Apple Computer, been the chief executive officer of Adobe Inc., and sits on the board of many high-ranking technology companies — ...

As everyone attempts to become a digital business, data becomes more crucial in driving business value. But protecting that data has become increasingly important — and it’s not just about backing data up anymore. It’s about managing data through a full lifecycle and finding new use cases for all those assets residing within the data. ...

One of the biggest challenges facing every enterprise is how to attend to their growing volumes of data, seeking out new derivative sources of data value. But sifting, analyzing and retooling data requires ongoing changes in computing infrastructure, data operations, and corporate culture. In the spirit of data refinement, data protection and software-defined storage company Veritas Technologies LLC acquired Aptare Inc., a provider ...

Citrix Systems Inc., founded in 1989, was a pioneer in virtual desktop infrastructure, delivering desktops from servers as a virtual machine long before the term ‘cloud computing’ became popularized. With this 30-year depth of knowledge around technology and innovation, Citrix Systems sets out to adapt workforces for today’s digital transformation. The ever-evolving workplace was the theme ...