Scott Waller is a former Cisco and Microsoft systems engineer and network architect who was inspired by his experience as a volunteer firefighter and avalanche instructor to launch an Internet… Read More
Alexa, when are we arriving at the moon? Putting Amazon’s AI-enabled voice assistant on a moon-bound spaceship may sound like science fiction (hello, HAL!). But it’s due to become science… Read More
— After 14 years at Microsoft, Dev Stahlkopf is joining Cisco in August as executive vice president and chief legal officer. She has served as Microsoft’s general counsel and corporate… Read More
PALM DESERT, Calif. — Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says the technology industry needs to be regulated, but that it’s going to take a new effort by the industry to build… Read More
A week after a report that Amazon Web Services was building its own bare-bones networking switch in a potential threat to networking powers like Cisco and Huawei, Cisco doesn’t worried… Read More
There are lots of companies that understand the benefits of cloud computing but, for a variety of good reasons, can’t move everything in one fell swoop. Amazon Web Services appears… Read More
At one point three years ago, Portland’s Puppet thought it was headed toward an IPO. That did not happen, but CEO Sanjay Mirchandani says the DevOps toolmaker is back on… Read More
Google announced Monday morning that its enterprise video calling app, Hangouts Meet, will be capable of connecting directly to competing apps, including Microsoft Skype for Business. In doing so, Google… Read More
Networking giant Cisco plans to draw on technology developed by Seattle’s ExtraHop in a new partnership aimed at improving network security with real-time data. ExtraHop’s flagship product, a network monitoring… Read More
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to approve the Container Networking Interface (CNI) as the new open-source project under its umbrella, the organization plans to announce later on… Read More
Fellow tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Cisco have come out in support of Google’s resistance to hand over data stored overseas in response to an FBI warrant. The tech giants… Read More
As cloud computing grows and swells the coffers of companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM, it’s instructive to also note which firms the cloud’s growth is hurting. For example, revenue… Read More
Cisco will abandon its InterCloud cloud-computing offering on March 31 and will move any InterCloud workloads to other, unnamed cloud providers, including “in some cases, public cloud,” VentureBeat quoted Cisco as… Read More
Tal Saraf, a veteran of Cisco, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, has joined Starbucks as its senior vice president of engineering and architecture, where he’s part of the effort to create… Read More
Cisco took its first step into the software container market today, announcing plans to buy ContainerX, an early-stage startup focused on helping manage and integrate containers. Terms weren’t disclosed. ContainerX,… Read More
Cisco, a maker of routers, switches and data-center gear whose sales are jeopardized by the movement to cloud computing and by fierce competition, is laying off up to 5,500 positions, or 7… Read More
Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. companies across all sectors of business, not including banks and other financial institutions — holding a combined $391 billion in… Read More
Cisco and Box have teamed up to take on enterprise collaboration with a new service they call “Project Squared.” It’s a set of tools designed to make it easy for… Read More
Cisco announced a multi-year sales agreement with Microsoft at the Redmond-based company’s World Partner Conference today. The two companies will work together on selling cloud and datacenter services, and have… Read More
Cisco announced today that it plans to spend $1 billion over the next two years to create a cloud computing platform to compete with rival players like Amazon and Microsoft.… Read More
Microsoft no longer has the threat of yet another European antitrust case hanging over it. According to a report by Reuters, the General Court of the European Union ruled that… Read More
On the eve of Microsoft’s first-ever Lync Conference, Cisco today launched a campaign questioning Microsoft’s strategy of making its communication and collaboration products work “first and best” on Windows. Cisco,… Read More
Parallels announced today that it has received an investment of undisclosed size from Cisco, money that the Renton-based company will use to bolster its cloud services efforts. As part of… Read More
Optify, a Seattle startup specializing in marketing software, has named 25-year- marketing vet Doug Wheeler to the position of chief marketing officer. Wheeler most recently worked at TappIn, which was… Read More
Microsoft has named Laura Ipsen as corporate vice president of Worldwide Public Sector. In the role, Ipsen will lead sales and marketing overseeing the government, public safety, national security, education and… Read More
Oh, how the technology landscape has changed. Ten years ago, the industry was dominated by names such as Microsoft, Intel, Dell and Cisco. And while those companies certainly haven’t gone… Read More
