When a slight majority of users know how to take advantage of various technology solutions, yet nearly half cannot, the natural reaction is how to work out a way to bring the rest along. That’s the thinking that put Liberty Technology Inc., a managed service provider, on the DevNet Create event session agenda this week in ...

Presenters during today’s opening keynotes at DevNet Create 2019 in Mountain View, California tossed around a lot of numbers, but one in particular stood out: 585,000. That’s the number of software developers now member to the DevNet community at Cisco Systems Inc. With the stated goal of empowering developers to innovate with the latest technologies, the DevNet ...

A recent report from IDC Research Inc. that tracked vendor revenue in the global enterprise storage systems industry noted that the hybrid flash and all-flash array market grew by nearly a combined $6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, year-over-year. If Infinidat Ltd. has anything to say about it, that number could soon be heading ...

In the 1997 non-fiction book “The Perfect Storm,” which was made into a hit movie three years later, a commercial fishing boat becomes lost at sea after encountering a powerful combination of two potent weather fronts and a hurricane. Prominent technology vendors, such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., are encountering a similar confluence of elements ...

Chief marketing officers at many enterprise firms have seen firsthand the explosion of technology tools and vendors. When the marketing blog Chiefmartec compiled its first graphic in 2011 to chart the martech landscape, the image showed 150 companies. Today, the most recent version lists close to 7,000 vendors. For Micheline Nijmeh (pictured), chief marketing officer of ...

Some hot tech startups attract a lot of money. A few attract partnerships from major industry players eager to get a piece of the action before the big money moves in. And then there is that seldom-seen third option, where a robotic process automation startup attracts significant investment, inks key strategic agreements with partners and ...

Since his arrival as an assistant professor of electrical engineering on the campus of Stanford University in 1977, John Hennessy has witnessed a lot of technology history. Hennessy (pictured) went on to become chief architect of Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s, saw the rise of the early packet-switching network ARPANET, which evolved into the internet, ...

The curse of having a lot of marketing data is that it can suddenly bring analysis and insight to a grinding halt. A report from the Forbes Marketing and Accountability Initiative recently found that an astounding 89% of marketing executives can’t quantify a return on data and analytics investment within one year. In an effort ...

Buffering, low bars, and dropped connectivity are all terms used to describe frustration with today’s wireless experience. However, a new wireless standard is coming that may make those words a distant memory. Wi-Fi 6, also known by the technical standard 802.11ax, is about to launch globally, and it will make a big difference when it ...

The field of copy data management may not always attract the greatest attention in the enterprise space, but it plays an increasingly important role for enterprises seeking to modernize and simplify infrastructure, especially in a hybrid world. One of the key companies in the space, Actifio Inc., specializes in copy data virtualization to improve infrastructure efficiency by ...