The presence of Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Diane Greene on the keynote stage at the Cisco Live conference this week in Orlando, Florida, was more than just a symbolic show of mutual support. The two companies announced a partnership last fall to collaborate on a hybrid-cloud offering. On Monday, they revealed more details about the deal, which is ...

A little over one year ago, SnapLogic Inc. introduced Iris as the first “self-driving” technology that automated enterprise data integration. The recommendation engine is designed to connect data flows and process application streams more efficiently. And now it’s getting smarter, too. The company is working on a set of enhancements for Iris, still to be ...

The technology approach taken by software vendor WANdisco Inc. recognizes an important shift that has taken place in the enterprise computing world. Much as the internet-transformed global connectivity, where business can be conducted anytime and anywhere in the world, that same trend has impacted how organizations view data. Information needs to be reliable and available ...

To gain an appreciation for a company’s level of digital maturity, it may be easier to know what it is not. Maintaining data centers with no cloud adoption and having mobile applications that cannot be accessed remotely would certainly qualify, according to one senior executive at Quantum Corp. who is tasked with bringing his company further ...

VMware Inc. engineers who submitted technical papers for consideration at this year’s Radio event, the company’s “Research And Development Innovation Offsite” gathering, had a better chance of getting admitted to the University of Notre Dame (19 percent) or passing the bar exam in California (27 percent) than making the cut to present their work. Only ...

With public and private clouds, hybrid models, and a need to manage data flowing from “internet of things” devices at the edge, the enterprise world is dealing with a lot of moving parts. Like rivers coming together in the geographic landscape, the streams of information are on a collision course where managing that data will ...

Acquisitions are the corporate world’s version of legalized gambling. Identify an opportunity, put money down and hope it pays off in the end. By this standard, VMware Inc. has done well at the gambling table. Noteworthy examples include the acquisition of Nicira Inc. in 2012, which propelled VMware into the software-defined networking space, and AirWatch in ...

Technology companies by nature generally prefer to keep research and development projects pretty close to the vest. Silicon Valley R&D labs usually have more layers of security than weapons of world domination in a “Mission Impossible” film, and the public rarely sees what goes on behind the curtain until a company is ready to reveal ...

Once upon a time, the world went mad over “Pokémon Go” as hordes of people wandered the countryside clutching smartphones in search of Pikachu and other digital creatures. That game was supposed to herald the dawn of the augmented reality age. Just two years later, the AR sky is still pretty dark. The Pokemon craze quickly dissolved and AR ...

If David Siegel, chief executive officer of the Pillar Project and author of “The Token Handbook,” ran the National Science Foundation, projects would be funded on a much different basis than they are today. Taking a page from what he’s learned as a businessman and corporate adviser, Siegel would be in favor of having science ...