Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems and SK Telecom are joining the effort kicked off last year by the Open Networking Lab to develop an open operating system for software-defined networks aimed at service providers and carriers for their mission-critical networks. Cisco, the world’s largest networking vendor, and SK Telecom, the largest telecommunications company in South Korea, join the […]

Intel reportedly is selling off its 4.9 percent stake in Imagination Technologies, a company that has gone from partner to more of a competitor after it bought the low-power MIPS chip technology in 2012. Once the 13.4 million shares are sold off, neither the Intel Foundation—which deals with charitable and educational programs for the chip […]

Facebook for several years has led the charge to rethink how data center resources are designed, going so far as launching the Open Compute Project in 2011 to encourage others to develop open-source models for designing servers, storage appliances and networking gear. Now the social networking company, which runs massive data centers that process and […]

Qualcomm’s issues with regulators in Asia may not be over yet. Three days after Qualcomm executives announced the company will pay a $975 million fine as part of a settlement over an antitrust investigation in China, South Korean regulators reportedly are considering an investigation to see if Qualcomm has abused its dominant position in the […]

Mitel is adding features to its MiCloud cloud-based communications offering to make it easier and more affordable for both service providers and end users to adopt and use the technology in a business world that is becoming increasingly mobile. The company, which has aggressively shifted its unified communications (UC) products to the cloud for the […]

Hewlett-Packard is releasing another set of preconfigured cloud infrastructure solutions aimed at particular workloads to accelerate customer adoption of the vendor’s Helion private cloud offering. The seven new pre-priced configurations, announced Feb. 12, touch on an array of lighter enterprise workloads and more business-class applications, ranging from application development to data mining and analytics. The […]

Cisco Systems is continuing to see gains from its multi-year transformation strategy to remake itself as an enterprise IT solutions and services vendor. The world’s top networking technology vendor saw revenues in its fiscal second quarter 2015 jump 7 percent over the same period a year earlier, hitting $11.9 billion. The increase represents strong gains […]

Dell is extending the ProSupport Plus service that it has in place for data center systems like servers and networking gear to its business PCs and tablets, and is including the ability for the technology to monitor the health of the systems and proactively report when problems occur. Dell officials want to make it easier […]

ZTE is rolling out a software-based video conferencing solution that is aimed at addressing the changing demands brought about by such trends as an increasingly mobile workforce and the consumerization of IT. The giant Chinese tech vendor on Feb. 11 unveiled its cloud offering, which includes software-based multipoint control units (MCUs) for bridging video conferencing […]

U.S. lawmakers are continuing to cast a wary eye at the rapidly growing Internet of things, understanding the benefits that can be derived while at the same time trying to determine the government’s role in protecting the security and privacy of consumers and their data. Last month, House representatives announced the creation of a Congressional […]

Oracle is continuing to build out the software framework that’s designed to help communications service providers in their migration to network-functions virtualization. The software giant on Feb. 10 introduced the Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution, a tool that officials said will not only enable service providers to more quickly create network services, but also […]

Software maker CA Technologies is among four new members of the OpenDaylight Project, a vendor-led consortium that is developing an open platform for software-defined networking and network-functions virtualization. The other vendors joining the group Feb. 10 are Spirent Communications, which creates test solutions for the IT and communications industries; IIX, which builds software-defined interconnection solutions […]