Jeff Burt

Fujitsu is focusing on energy efficiency with new rack and blade servers aimed at organizations that have space, power or cooling constraints in their data centers. The two new Primergy systems are designed to offer businesses the compute capabilities they need in hardware that fits into data centers that are limited in how much they […]

ARM’s acquisition of Offspark is the latest indication of the growing importance being placed on security in the burgeoning Internet of things. ARM officials announced on Feb. 9 that the chip maker was buying Offspark, a Dutch company that specializes in securing software for devices and sensors in the Internet of things (IoT). Offspark’s PolarSSL […]

Qualcomm, the world’s largest mobile chip maker, will pay a $975 million fine and make changes to its business practices in China to settle an antitrust investigation that had dogged the company for more than 14 months. Qualcomm officials announced the settlement Feb. 9, saying that while they disagreed with the country’s National Development and […]

Red Hat and NEC want to make it easier for communications service providers to embrace network-functions virtualization in their data centers. The two companies, which have partnered on other network-functions virtualization (NFV) efforts, now are building a cloud platform that will leverage NEC’s infrastructure products and Red Hat’s OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution and will enable […]

The Thread Group, an Internet of things standards consortium launched last year by such major tech players as Samsung, ARM, Freescale Semiconductor and Google’s Nest Labs, wants to make it easier for startups to join the group. The consortium, which now has more than 80 members after kicking off in July 2014, recently announced the […]

Plantronics and Revolabs are looking to address the issues of sound and noise in unified communications. The two companies separately are rolling out products designed to make it easier for people in collaborative settings to hear each other by making the audio clearer and reducing background noise. Plantronics on Feb. 5 unveiled four audio devices—from […]

Dell Services and FireHost, a managed cloud services provider that highlights its platform’s security capabilities, are partnering to develop a converged infrastructure offering comprising Dell’s data center hardware and FireHost’s cloud technology. The solution will enable businesses that, for compliance or security reasons, may not be able to store sensitive information in a cloud environment […]

On the same day that Brocade Communications Systems announced it was buying Riverbed Technology’s virtual application delivery product to bolster its network virtualization capabilities, the vendor also pushed forward with its software-defined networking ambitions. Brocade officials on Feb. 5 said the company is bolstering its VCS networking fabric with a new high-density switch in its […]

A year after spending almost $5 billion to buy IBM’s x86 server business and Motorola Mobility from Google, Lenovo’s bets are paying off. This week, Lenovo reported third quarter revenues of $14.1 billion, a 31 percent jump over the same period in 2013. The revenue figure shows the impact of the acquisitions, which were part […]

Cisco Systems is looking to broaden the options for businesses that want to move to an open software-defined networking environment but are not yet ready for its entire Application Centric Infrastructure portfolio. The networking giant is bringing support for the BGP EVPN (Border Gateway Protocol – Ethernet Virtual Private Network) overlay protocol to its Nexus […]

EMC’s federation of companies are banding together to roll out new converged infrastructure systems for cloud and virtualized environments. VCE, a company founded by EMC, VMware and Cisco Systems, on Feb. 4 said it is expanding its lineup of integrated infrastructure solutions with the VCE Foundation for Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, which integrates VMware’s NSX […]

The Open Platform for NFV project, formed in September 2014 to help accelerate the adoption of network-functions virtualization, is adding a director and five new members. The organization, founded by the likes of Intel, IBM and Cisco Systems, now has 49 members with the addition of Enea, Korea Telecom, SK Telecom, Spirent Communications and Xilinx. […]