Jeff Burt

Dell Software officials want to help businesses determine how their myriad unified communications systems are being used and find ways to make it easier for employees to adopt the technology. Dell’s new Unified Communications Command Suite (UCCS) gives organizations a single portfolio of products that they can use to gain greater visibility into their unified […]

Qualcomm, the world’s top mobile chip maker, is ready to get into the crowded ARM-based server chip business. At the company’s annual analyst day Nov. 19 in New York, CEO Steve Mollenkopf said company engineers have been working on the technology “for some time. Now we are going to have a big product that goes […]

The ZigBee Alliance, which for about a decade has offered a low-power wireless standard for a broad range of systems, is bringing all those technologies together under a single standard that officials say will offer interoperability for the billions of devices that will make up the Internet of things. The alliance, which includes an array […]

SGI is rolling out new hardware and software additions to its supercomputing portfolio that officials say will help push the industry toward exascale computing. SGI officials unveiled its new products—including two new supercomputers and high-performance computing (HPC) management software—as the SC14 supercomputing show was under way in New Orleans. The federal government and HPC space […]

Extreme Networks, which in June unveiled a software-defined networking platform based on such open standards as OpenDaylight Project’s controller code, is broadening its capabilities with a new networking switch and adding new members to its partner program. The new products—the Summit X670-G2 top-of-rack switch and Purview Application Sensor—both comply with software-defined networking (SDN) standards put […]

Cisco Systems, a day after unveiling a mobile app for collaboration and a new TelePresence room system, is now turning its attention back to giving midmarket companies the tools to improve their communications capabilities. On the second day of the company’s Collaboration Summit 2014 in Los Angeles, Cisco officials introduced the Business Edition 6000S, a […]

Intel officials are pushing forward with the company’s Xeon Phi co-processor timetablet, preparing for the rollout next year of its second-generation Knights Landing product and beginning to talk about Knights Hill, which will follow. At the SC14 supercomputing show in New Orleans, the chip maker also is opening up about its plans around Omni-Path, the […]

Supercomputer maker Cray will evaluate using ARM-based chips in its systems, an effort driven in part by an R&D contract from the Department of Energy. Cray officials made the announcement at the SC14 supercomputing show in New Orleans, saying that the ARM architecture is one of several the company will evaluate as it looks to […]

Intel’s fashionable MICA smart bracelet will be available in time for Christmas. The giant chip maker for several months has been touting the MICA (My Intelligent Communication Accessory) bracelet as an example of what it can do in the fast-growing wearable device market and how such products can be designed to look good as well […]

For the past few years, Intel executives every three months have had to go before financial analysts and journalists and talk about a mobile chip business in which they’ve invested billions with little to show in return. Now, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the giant chip maker will combine its mobile […]

Hewlett-Packard and Dell are pushing accelerators for their newest high-performance computing systems that not only will give customers greater performance and power efficiency, but also will enable them to better optimize the systems for their workloads. At the SC14 supercomputing show in New Orleans Nov. 17, HP officials announced new server trays for the company’s […]

Cisco Systems is continuing to revamp its collaboration portfolio with a new high-end TelePresence system that officials say brings with it a better experience and improved cost efficiencies and a new mobile app that enables greater conferencing capabilities from any device. At the same time, Cisco officials also are partnering with Box to integrate the […]