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Do you know what StarlingX is? Yeah we didn’t either. But it was just announced at the OpenStack Summit in Berlin, and there seemed to be quite a bit of hoopla around it, so we decided to hunt down someone from the project and invite them to the show so we could get to the bottom of all the exciteme…

AI/ML is a dominant trend in the enterprise. While AI/ML is not fundamentally new, the ubiquity of large amounts of observed data, the rise of distributed computing frameworks and the prevalence of large hardware-accelerated computing infrastructure has lead to new wave of breakthroughs in AI in the…

I build IP phones for a living (among a few other things). The design and craftsmanship our engineers apply to them make me proud. The high quality construction of our flagship Cisco IP Phone 8800 Series stands out among our competitors. I will keep building great IP phones. Why?  Because customers…

Detecting threats, such as malware, rogue insiders, and credential abuse, within public cloud environments can be a major challenge. Traditionally, organizations have tried to solve this problem by overlaying a patchwork of agents across the cloud surface to detect bad activity. This approach requir…

In an increasingly competitive environment, enterprises are under intense pressure to do more and to do it faster, with less. That’s why the ability to rapidly deliver new experiences to customers and employees through applications is an important differentiator in a growing number of industries. Ap…

You love Kubernetes, right? I don’t use it personally because that’s not my job, but when I talk to someone who does, the experience they describe sounds nothing less than fabulous. By automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized apps, it has eliminated a lot of the repetitive…

Examining the FaaS on K8S Market When AWS introduced the first Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) runtime, Lambda, in 2014 and subsequently enabled developers to evolve beyond Microserrvices to create Serverless application architectures, it was inevitable that there would eventually be on premises varian…

As per the recent announcement, IBM is acquiring Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion. This is another one in a row of deals I did not expect to happen: – Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems – Microsoft acquired GitHub – Dell acquired VMware This deal is still subject to shareholder…

This year’s VMworld conference at Las Vegas was a successful one for Cisco as we focused on new technologies that have enabled business processes and innovation. Key among our showcased portfolio was Cisco CloudCenter, our multicloud management platform. Here is a transcript of theCube interview wit…