Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems’ Project Squared collaboration and communications effort is being re-branded as Cisco Spark. Speaking March 17 at the Enterprise Connect 2015 show in Orlando, Fla., Rowan Trollope, senior vice president of Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group announced the name change as well as several improvements to the offering. These include easier administration, greater control over […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nvidia officials are giving researchers and developers tools they need for their work in the growing field of deep learning. During his March 17 keynote address at the GPU Technology Conference 2015 (GTC) here , Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled several new products, including the latest GeForce GPU—the GTX Titan X—and software and […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Cavium is adding support for Nvidia’s Tesla GPU accelerators to its ARM-based ThunderX server processors. Cavium launched its 64-bit systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) in December 2014. It is one of a growing number of chip makers looking to leverage ARM’s low-power architecture to move into a server market dominated by Intel. Adding support for Nvidia’s […]

Officials with Huawei Technologies, which has been building out its network virtualization capabilities over the past few years, are pledging their support to three open source groups in hope of accelerating the adoption of software-defined networking. The giant Chinese technology vendor late last week said it will work with the Open Networking Operating System (ONOS) […]

Qualcomm, best known for its low-power chips for mobile devices, is adding to its lineup of boards that are aimed to encourage software and hardware development based on its silicon. The chip maker later this year will release the DragonBoard 410c, a platform based on Qualcomm’s 64-bit Snapdragon 410 system-on-a-chip (SoC) that officials hope will […]

Aerohive Networks is launching a program aiming to lure away customers of rival Aruba Networks that may be concerned about Hewlett-Packard’s plans to buy Aruba for $2.7 billion. A week after HP executives announced plans to buy the wireless network technology vendor, Aerohive officials unveiled a program called “Get Me Off This Island.” Through the […]

Highfive, a startup in the increasingly crowded video conferencing space, has raised another $32 million in funding five months after launching its first product. Among the investors in the Series B funding were Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and SV Angel. Other investors include Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of cloud storage company […]

In the wake of Intel announcing a $900 million cut in first-quarter revenue projections due to softening demand for corporate PCs, IDC analysts now are saying that the number of PC shipments will fall more than expected this year. The analyst firm is saying that global PC shipments will fall by 4.9 percent this year […]

Neither Intel nor Advanced Micro Devices have had much success in a mobile chip space that continues to be dominated by ARM and such partners as Qualcomm and Samsung. However, separate reports indicate that both vendors might be finding other avenues into the mobile market. Intel will supply the wireless modem chip for some of […]

Intel, which saw record revenues in 2014 due in part to a resurgent global PC market, is slashing its first-quarter revenue projections by $900 million due to weaker demand in the business PC space than officials had expected. Company executives said they now expect revenues for the first three months of year to come in […]

Avaya is expanding the capabilities of its video conferencing technology, including adding to its Scopia platform through new room-based systems and enhancements that improve the end-user experience. The upgrades are a nod to such trends as an increasingly mobile workforce and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices, which are reshaping the video conferencing space as users demand the […]

VCE is expanding its converged infrastructure offerings with a new family of systems that offer a choice of software-defined networking platforms and a new architecture aimed not only at scale-out environments but also those that scale up. The vendor—which is part of storage giant EMC’s federation of companies—also is growing the capabilities of its Vision […]