VMware is playing catch-up in the public cloud market, and it's starting to play the enterprise card to show how its cloud CPU and storage performance blows away the competition.
Cisco CEO John Chambers said in an interview with CRN that the networking giant is making its equipment "very difficult to tamper with" in the wake of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spying revelations.
Microsoft is planning to get more aggressive about closing volume licensing opportunities that come in through its retail stores, but partners that sell licensing say this could take a bite out of their revenue.
Researchers at Lacoon Mobile Security will hijack a virtual workspace container session on mobile devices in a Black Hat presentation today that will explore the potential VDI weaknesses on Android and Apple iOS devices.
Cisco CEO John Chambers called new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella "a breath of fresh air" in terms of his willingness to make changes at the software giant and said he expects the Microsoft-Cisco partnership to grow stronger in the data center.
Formerly called ProVision Communications, the technology services company closed the 360 Networx deal Aug. 1 for an undisclosed sum, changing its name to Provision Networks, and changing its business model in the process.
Jim McHugh, vice president of UCS Product Marketing, sat down with CRN to talk about UCS developments at Cisco. McHugh also discussed the ongoing competition between Cisco and HP.
HP CTO Martin Fink said HP is pushing hard on enterprise data center innovation with the OpenStack-based HP Helion cloud and with "The Machine," a future replacement of today's compute technology, featuring a unified memory to replace current memory and storage.
Cisco CEO John Chambers never underestimates a challenge. But as the pace of change accelerates, the question on everyone's mind is who will be holding the reins in the future.
The rise of cloud and software-defined networking (SDN) has Cisco trying to change the perception that it's still—and perhaps always will be—a hardware manufacturer at heart.
Cisco CEO John Chambers never underestimates a challenge. But as the pace of change accelerates, the question on everyone's mind is who will be holding the reins in the future.
CRN sat down with John Chambers last month in his San Jose, Calif. office where the 19-year Cisco Systems CEO got candid on everything from Cisco's rivalry with VMware to the steps he's taken to ensure his succession plan happens as smoothly as possible.
A security researcher who advocates for a more thorough assessment of Amazon's cloud applications for configuration failures and inadequate security controls, says developers often leave gaping holes that can be used to gain access to sensitive information.
The only way to reduce risk of system failures is to resist complete dependence on the digital world, said security industry luminary Dan Geer in his opening keynote to the 2014 Black Hat Briefings.
The Chinese government banned 10 Apple products, including the iPad, iPad Mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Being blacklisted from a growing market such as China could lower the ceiling for potential in the company's partnership with IBM, leaving Chinese vendors such as Lenovo and Huawei to reap the benefits.
