If indeed the past is prologue, then technology startups got both a major history lesson and a curriculum for the future this week at the Startup Grind 2018 conference in Redwood City, California. Perhaps it was the unconventional setting — a restored movie theater originally built in 1929 — or maybe it was the appearance of several major ...

Vehicles that pull into the driveway at Knightscope Inc.’s corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, often come to a dead stop. That’s because a robot, which looks something like R2-D2 of “Star Wars” fame, is positioned squarely at the entrance. Soon, the robot rolls quietly aside after a brief time assessing who is visiting the ...

The tagline at Cisco Live’s DevNet Zone in Barcelona, Spain, last month was visibly posted throughout the venue. Attendees couldn’t miss encouragement to “Learn, Code, Inspire and Connect” as they received hands-on experience with application program interfaces in classes, demos, learning labs, workshops, panels and mini-hacks. The zone was part of Cisco Systems Inc.’s evolving ...

Some user group meetings are about cloud technology. Some cover meaty topics like cybersecurity and the hyperconverged infrastructure. Then there is the Virtualization Technology User Group’s January gathering where speakers talk about all of the above and one other subject — the New England Patriots. Held in the Patriot’s home — Gillette Stadium — VTUG ...

When infrastructure as a service provider Outscale Inc. unveiled its TINA On-Premise technology in 2016, the company made it clear that it intended to compete with major cloud providers. But in doing so, the French company decided it would also compete through an alliance with two major U.S. firms, becoming the first Cisco Systems Inc. Unified ...

It’s called the HyperCloud, and it’s Linxdatacenter’s process for creating private, public and hybrid clouds and letting them communicate with each other through dedicated channels. Announced in the middle of 2017, the technology for HyperCloud — supplied by Cisco’s HyperFlex hardware and Veeam’s availability solutions — resulted in less time spent to deploy cloud systems or ...

With an eye towards the promising hyperconverged infrastructure market, NetApp Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. are fine-tuning a joint project that boosts computing hardware with all-flash technologies. FlexPod, the next-generation converged infrastructure solution produced from a collaboration between NetApp and Cisco, has been gradually calibrated by both companies over the past eight years. The latest tweak ...

The information technology sales channel is changing, and Cisco Systems Inc. is adapting to a new world where sometimes the best approach is to bring in partners who don’t sell anything at all. The company’s Accelerating Cisco Ecosystem Sales program, or ACES, brings facilitators to the table with resellers to engage in dialogue over how ...

January was a busy month for Cisco Systems Inc. on the hyperconverged front. In addition to its continuing key partnership with Veeam Software Inc., Cisco announced that it would pursue the acquisition of Skyport Systems Inc. in a bid to strengthen its hybrid cloud offerings. Cisco also announced HyperFlex 3.0, a major product update that includes ...

When it comes to data privacy and preventing identity theft, there may be nothing more useless today than an individual’s Social Security number. The problem has gotten so bad that Adrian Lamo, threat analyst and former hacker, posted a video on YouTube in which he freely gives out his own Social Security number. Yet, the ...