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Loads of vendors see the enterprise train chugging toward multicloud in all its mismatched glory. Naturally, they want to sell customers the panacea that fits all those clouds onto a single pane of glass. It’s a lot harder then it sounds. In the end, their efforts may be hopelessly superficial. To compete in multicloud, they might have to haul their businesses into networking, where the biggest roadblocks to cloud interoperability stand. And they may require a whole new brand of virtual dynamite to explode them. Arista Networks Inc. casts itself at the forefront of a new movement in networking that addresses problems specific to the cloud. “What led to the founding of Arista was we had lunch with our best friends at Google,” said Andy Bechtolsheim (pictured), founder, chief development officer and chairman of Arista. “And Larry [Page, Google LLC co-founder] himself told me that the biggest problem they had was not service, but actually the … [Read more...] about Andy Bechtolsheim: The network may end up deciding who wins in the multicloud era

It’s official: Apple has become the first $1 trillion company in history. The milestone is even more significant when you consider that Apple almost didn’t even get the chance to make it this far. When Steve Jobs took over as CEO of Apple in 1997, the company had been struggling to find its legs in a market increasingly dominated by Microsoft and its partners. Indeed, Michael Dell himself once quipped that if he were in Jobs’ shoes, he’d shut Apple down and return the money to the shareholders. Here’s a look into the history of Apple in photos, from its inception, through its hard times, and through to the triumphant return of Jobs. Apple was cofounded on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in Los Altos, California. Foto: sourceKimberly White / REUTERS There was a third cofounder, too, named Ronald Wayne. Jobs brought Wayne on board to provide business guidance for the two young cofounders, but he ended up leaving the company … [Read more...] about Apple is officially a $1 trillion company — here are 32 photos of how it came to rule the world

The open-source developer community now confronts an acquisition of seismic impact. Today, Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement to acquire San Francisco-based open-source development community GitHub Inc. for $7.5 billion. Just as Oracle Corp.’s 2009 acquisition of the Sun Microsystems Inc.-developed Java sent shockwaves through the web developer ecosystem, Microsoft’s pending GitHub takeover is causing waves of concern to ripple across the global open-source developer community. GitHub provides a central code-control repository, issue-tracking environment, collaboration forum and documentation hosting service for open-source developers in every industry, geography and technology. Essentially, Microsoft’s bombshell announcement will place a privately owned service that many developers regard as a quasipublic utility under the control of commercial vendor with which many of them compete. One would be hard-pressed to name any significant open-source project that … [Read more...] about Microsoft’s GitHub takeover sends shockwaves through the open-source developer ecosystem