Cisco to buy Epsagon for application, microservice management
Cisco’s fifth acquisition this year is Epsagon, whose application-performance technology will be integrated into Cisco’s AppDynamics performance-management platform. Cisco is looking to bolster its enterprise application management suite by buying...
Windows 365 — Microsoft’s cloud-based OS explained
Microsoft’s new take on desktop-as-a-service is more than just a cloud-based version of Windows. It also allows the company to offer up ersatz hardware — virtual machines running on a...
Cisco completes purchase of security risk-management firm
Cisco bought Kenna Security to integrate its data-science-driven, security risk-management technology into Cisco’s Secure X platform. Cisco continues to bulk-up its security portfolio, this week closing the deal on risk-based...
Oracle to customers: Spend more on cloud, save on support
With Oracle Support Rewards, the company hopes to tempt existing on-premises customers to move workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In its ongoing push for the cloud, Oracle is willing to cut...
New Cisco servers embrace hybrid cloud
Cisco UCS X-Series servers have a new architecture that supports blade- and rack-server features to simplify data centers and come loaded with management software to unify hybrid cloud environments. Cisco...
Microsoft releases Windows 10 21H1 as another minor OS refresh
The year’s first feature upgrade for Windows 10 arrived this week with little fanfare, largely because it offers little new functionality because Microsoft has abandoned its major-minor release cadence. Microsoft...
Microsoft patents biometric ‘wellness insights’ tool for workers
The just-published patent describes a feature that generates an employee “anxiety score” based on data such as blood pressure and heart rate, suggesting when workers need to take a break....
IBM buys Turbonomic for AIOps, hybrid-cloud management support
By acquiring Turbonomic, IBM gains tools that manage performance of everything from applications and containers to virtualization, cloud, and on-prem compute, storage, and network resources. Big Blue kept its checkbook...
Rethinking collaboration: 8 vendors offer new paths to remote work
With the need for efficient collaboration tools exploding in recent months, a variety of companies hope to refine how those tools work and what they can do. We look at...
The Microsoft-Nuance Deal: A new push for voice technology?
Microsoft’s decision to buy Nuance for $19.7 billion highlights how important voice-activated technology is already in healthcare and how ubiquitous it might become elsewhere. Microsoft’s decision to acquire speech-recognition firm Nuance Communications...