Stephen Lawson
Senior U.S. Correspondent
Stephen Lawson is Senior U.S. Correspondent based in San Francisco.
VMware unveils the latest nervous system for enterprise IoT
The internet of things seems tailor-made for management headaches. VMware is taking on this challenge with VMware Pulse IoT Center, a solution that draws on two platforms the company already sells.
Versa brings multiple functions to software-defined branch networks
Versa Networks wants to help enterprises overcome some of the complexity of branch networks with new multi-function software for its Versa Cloud IP Platform.
McNealy sees Sun's past in IoT's future
Onetime Sun CEO Scott McNealy sees some of the legendary company's vision coming to fruition in an IoT "data bus" from a small Silicon Valley outfit called Real-Time Innovations. On Tuesday, McNealy became the first member of RTI's...
Merged Dell EMC busts out Isilon, XtremIO, and VMax updates
Dell EMC is making one of its broadest rollouts of updated storage gear in years at Dell EMC World on Monday, packing more capacity and performance into several product lines.
Dell EMC's newest switches will come with its open network OS
Dell's drive into open networking accelerated on Monday with the announcement of the first switches to ship with OS10, the company's network operating system that's based on open source.
How to size up a new cloud service like low-priced Wasabi
Saving money may be a good enough reason to try a brand-new cloud storage service -- if it can deliver on its promises. That's the equation some enterprises may use when they look at Wasabi Technologies, an object storage startup that...
Public clouds are calling to IT engineers -- and their wallets
Less than one-fifth of enterprise IT assets are in the cloud, but it looks like more are on their way. One-third of data-center professionals and IT practitioners plan to deploy workloads in the cloud in the next year, according to a...
If software eats everything, are network engineers on the menu?
If you're a network engineer, don't rush out and learn a programming language. To compete in the new world of software-defined networking, it might be more important to start thinking like a programmer. That was one of the ideas that...
ONUG gets closer to making SD-WANs talk to each other
A group of networking engineers and vendors is making progress toward an API that would help enterprises merge SD-WANs from different vendors.
Users' orders: Make it easier to build hybrid clouds
At its spring conference next week, the Open Networking User Group will focus on enterprises extending their infrastructure to create hybrid clouds, a process the group says is too hard and too time-consuming.
