The next decade will see robots transform from invisible forces obeying our commands to lifelike objects interacting with humans on a daily basis. Getting most business services requests completed should be as easy as asking HAL 9000 to open the pod bay door in the classic Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Before HAL malfunctioned, that … Read more
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 includes several new features that let businesses migrate to a hybrid, multi-cloud model and maintain visibility, application performance and scalability. It’s been a busy hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) week for Cisco. Yesterday it announced its intent to acquire secure HCI vendor, Skyport Systems. Today it announced HyperFlex 3.0, which is the biggest update Cisco … Read more
In case you’re still not sure about the viability of the Internet of Things (IoT) as a business concept, some new findings from research firm International Data Corp. (IDC)—predicting significant growth for the market in the coming years—should be convincing. In addition to a rise in investments in IoT products and services, the IDC research … Read more
Oracle’s most recent financial report reveals some hints about its future. Oracle has posted some very impressive numbers as its cloud computing products and services have taken off, and the recent Q2 reporting is a fine reference point. From the company’s announcement of its Q2 results: Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) revenues were up … Read more
Google’s biggest strength is helping enterprises “run like Google”—something that even old-school companies have discovered they can now do. 2017 was a good year for Google Cloud Platform. But 2018 promises to be even better. Although Google still sits well behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in cloud revenue, with just 2.3 percent market … Read more
Smarter infrastructure, workload rationalization, as-a-service procurement on tap for data centers worldwide. The lifecycle of a data center is measured in decades, yet the tech that’s inside is changing constantly. “Today’s data centers are really out of sync with the equipment that’s inside them. It would be like using the enclosure for a 1984 Macintosh … Read more
The world of enterprise Wi-Fi moves fast, but 2018 is going to see gear based on 802.11ac Wave 2 remain the state of the art – its successor, 802.11ax, is still one for the future. Wave 2 is the latest Wi-Fi standard to be certified by the IEEE. Its main technological innovation is MU-MIMO, or … Read more
As Cisco transitions from hardware to software, it’s rolling out a whole new line of products for IoT and cloud. As the preeminent networking company shapes its plans for 2018, analysts and users say Cisco is at somewhat of an inflection point, transitioning from a hardware-based company to an integrated hardware and software-focused one. In … Read more
Software vendors such as Oracle change their online terms and conditions regularly. This often happens without their customers even knowing it, resulting in possible contract breaches and great financial risks, especially for enterprises. In this article you read why software vendors change their online terms so often and what you can do to prevent an … Read more
Is the U.S. government’s ban on the products of Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-headquartered global cybersecurity company founded by Russians, a reasonable precaution or brazen protectionism? It’s possible to argue either case. But whether the ban is justified is less important in the grand scheme of things than what it does to the borderless nature of … Read more
