Companies operating in the Kubernetes space could be forgiven if they mistakenly thought they had signed up for the circus instead. The pace of major Kubernetes releases, currently clicking along at about once every three months, is translating into a fairly intense juggling act on the part of companies providing ancillary services and support for ...

In the beginning, there were only personal computers. Jeff Clarke (pictured) first became a part of the Dell Inc. empire in 1987 as a quality engineer before it was even called Dell. The company, started by Michael Dell, was known as PC’s Ltd. until 1988 when it was renamed Dell Computer Corp. after its founder. The PC’s ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the reopening of free crossing between East and West Berlin, triggering the removal of the infamous Berlin Wall and igniting a thaw in the Cold War across Eastern Europe. Another wall of sorts came down today for enterprise customers of both Microsoft Corp. and VMware Inc. The two companies ...

The opening day of Dell Technologies Inc.’s annual user conference in Las Vegas kicked off with the announcement of a partnership between VMware Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The deal provides Azure cloud customers with the ability to use VMware’s virtualization software in managing information technology operations. Today’s announcement featured a trio of high-powered industry chief ...

The challenges facing information technology organizations today can be boiled down to three words: stale, scale, speed. Traditional approaches to managing the IT infrastructure have gone stale, rendered ineffective by significant complexity in dynamic, cloud-native environments. The scale has changed significantly as well, with exponential increases in the amount of data flowing through the infrastructure ...

Users hungry for bandwidth, an explosion of internet of things devices that must connect securely, and a quest for the ultimate immersive experience are all driving wireless connectivity to the limit. A new wireless standard — Wi-Fi 6 — is being deployed to help manage this new reality. “All of those are driving a need for us ...

The software developer community is evolving rapidly in keeping with the frenetic pace of change within the enterprise information technology industry itself. For some attendees at this week’s DevNet Create gathering, what a difference a year makes. “Last year people were talking about doing collaboration applications in a new way,” said Paul Giblin (pictured), enterprise architect and ...

With the developer community on full display during DevNet Create this week, Cisco Systems Inc.’s management team, led by Chief Executive Officer Chuck Robbins, has demonstrated the appeal of network programmability. That’s in keeping with a promise Cisco’s leader made to one prominent analyst. “One of the very first things Chuck Robbins ever said to ...

Cisco Systems Inc. announced this week that its DevNet developer community had grown to over 585,000 participants, many of whom are attending DevNet Create in Mountain View, California, this week. That community is fueling an important new wave of innovation, not just within Cisco, but in other corners of the technology ecosystem. “The thing with ...

It would be a dream scenario if a “single pane of glass” truly existed for information technology managers to closely monitor every aspect of the enterprise infrastructure. It’s still a dream, which is why Cisco Systems Inc. and ScienceLogic Inc. have both learned a great deal from their 10-year partnership to support infrastructure monitoring in ...