Jeff Burt

Google is kicking off a project designed to make it easier for people to get around the Internet of things as the number of connected smart devices rapidly increases. By 2020, the number of connected devices worldwide could hit 26 billion (according to Gartner analysts) to 50 billion (say Cisco Systems officials). Given such massive […]

Juniper Networks launched its Junos Pulse mobile security business in 2010, but its future was thrown into doubt in February as soon as new CEO Shaygan Kheradpir rolled out his plan to grow the tech vendor’s bottom line, a strategy that included slashing costs, shedding some products, and focusing on networks and the cloud. Kheradpir’s […]

Cisco Systems, Acer and MediaTek are among the more than two dozen tech vendors and system makers that are joining the Open Interconnect Consortium, a group launched in July with the goal of creating an open specification for interoperability in the Internet of things. The new companies on Oct. 2 joined founding members Dell, Intel, […]

VMware, the server virtualization pioneer that made a major push into the burgeoning software-defined network market two years ago when it bought startup Nicira for $1.26 billion, reportedly is bringing on a couple of big names to expand it networking efforts. The company in September hired Dominick Delfino, who had spent the past 14 years […]

Blue Jeans Network is making it easier for people with disabilities to use its cloud-based video conferencing solution. The company is adding features to its video conferencing services to enable people with a range of disabilities—from blindness and low vision to deafness, hearing loss, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech issues, learning disabilities and photosensitivity—to gain […]

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to extend its ambitions around ARM-based processors beyond servers and into the networking world. At ARM’s TechCon 2014 this week in Santa Clara, Calif., AMD officials are showed off a network-functions virtualization (NFV) solution that is being powered by the vendor’s ARM-based 64-bit Embedded R-Series system-on-a-chip, code-named “Hierofalcon.” The demonstration […]

Pica8, which has developed a networking operating system that officials say is designed to make it easier for organizations to embrace software-defined networking, raised $12.5 million in its latest round of Series B funding. The new funding, announced Oct. 1, brings the total amount raised by the startup to more than $20 million, and Pica8 […]

ARM, whose chip designs are found in a broad range of smartphones, tablets, embedded devices and now servers, is flexing its software muscles with a new platform and operating system for the Internet of things. The company is leveraging the work it has done over the past several years with the mbed hardware and software […]

Alcatel-Lucent has completed the sale of 85 percent of its enterprise networking and communications business to Chinese investment company China Huaxin, the latest move by the company under its year-old Shift Plan to shed asset, cut costs and refocus on more profitable markets. Under terms of the $255 million deal, China Huaxin will hold 85 […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and other top executives saw their pay cut during the company’s latest fiscal year, the result of the giant networking vendor missing key financial targets. That said, none of the executives is in danger of going broke. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Sept. 30, […]

Rackspace, like cloud competitor Amazon Web Services, was forced to reboot some of its servers after patching them to fix a security flaw in some versions of the XenServer hypervisor. The cloud provider had to patch an untold number of servers in its global data centers over the weekend and then reboot them, which caused […]

Cray is rolling out the latest generation of its XC supercomputers, which are powered by Intel’s newest Xeon E5 processors and offer twice the performance over the previous systems. The XC40 also comes with Cray’s new DataWarp I/O acceleration technology, which connects solid-state drives (SSDs) directly to the compute nodes in the supercomputer, reducing the […]