Scot Petersen

SAN DIEGO—Now that it has connected much of the world’s enterprise networks, Cisco is working on connecting other critical enterprise assets: employees and customers. Cisco celebrated its 30th annual Live user conference here last week by talking up its new “cognitive collaboration” strategy that spans Webex tools for video meetings to contact center interactions. While […]

NEW YORK—If you are still confused about what blockchain is and what it can be used for, don’t worry. The crypto industry is still trying to figure that out, too. Here at Coindesk’s Consensus 2019 conference, fledgling software companies pitched new pieces for future incarnations of blockchain, while new advocacy groups discussed why it is […]

Maybe all that was keeping Google Cloud from being a true challenger to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure was to be less like Google and more like Oracle, or even SAP. That’s what it looks like in the wake of the Google Cloud Next conference, and yesterday’s news of former Oracle executive and current […]

SAN FRANCISCO–At the Google Cloud Next conference here this week, Google outlined a new strategy for managing cloud applications, microservices and serverless functions across on-premise, hybrid and “multi” cloud environments, as it seeks to catch up with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. SignalFx, a third-party specialist in application performance monitoring (APM) and visibility, was […]

The trend toward value-based care coupled with new devices and algorithms is pushing wearables makers further into the health care market. At the recent HIMSS health care IT conference, dozens of vendors showed a range of solutions that are designed to do a better job of monitoring patients once they leave the hospital and head […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — There is both good news and bad news in health-care security trends: The bad news is that 74 percent of health care organizations were hit by “significant” security incidents in the past year, of which 56 percent were conducted by so-called bad actors targeting specific organizations with sophisticated, targeted, financially motivated attacks. […]

ORLANDO, Fla.–It’s a sign of the upside-down nature of the health-care industry in the U.S.: At a conference of the nation’s top health-care Chief Information Officers, leading experts said technology is not the solution. Technology can and must play a role, they said at the CHIME CIO Forum—part of HIMSS19 pre-conference activities here this week. […]

A term that gets a lot of mileage these days when describing the API economy is “frictionless”—the idea that the sharing of data, processes, workflows and schedules among users and between platforms should be seamless and easy. This is often harder that it sounds. But it is especially important for today’s software vendors, who are […]

The history of collaboration technology in the enterprise is riddled with failures and false promises. From the first email services through Lotus Notes, 1990s “groupware” suites and 2000s corporate intranets, technology solutions have usually come up short, often getting in the way of real collaboration. But that has not stopped the industry from trying. Collaboration […]

The Linux Foundation’s LF Networking project group this week took the latest step in delivering an open-source platform to enable telecom providers to deploy next-generation network services. The “Casablanca” release of ONAP (Open Networking Automation Platform) contains new features to enable 5G management, cross-carrier networking and automation, as well as new resources to ease deployment […]