Jeff Burt

Trends like the Internet of things and mobile computing are putting increasing pressure on networks to keep up with rapidly changing demands. That in turn is putting a strain on IT professionals who are responsible for growing these networks to meet the demands. Cisco Systems is offering a way to ease the burden with its […]

Broadcom is rolling out new networking switch silicon aimed at highly scalable data centers, such as those run by cloud giants like Google and Facebook or operating in high-performance computing environments. Broadcom’s new StrataXGS Tomahawk Switch Series brings high capacity—as much as 3.2 terabits per second—and 25/50 Gigabit Ethernet to the data center, which company […]

ARM is taking another step into the increasingly competitive Internet of things market, introducing its latest Cortex-M processor that officials say offers twice the compute and digital signal processing capabilities of its predecessor. ARM’s new 32-bit Cortex-M7 “Pelican” chip design is aimed at high-end embedded systems that can span from network edge routers and industrial […]

MediaTek is the latest component maker that is looking to offer its technology to help developers of any skill level create hardware and software for wearable devices and the Internet of things. MediaTek on Sept. 22 introduced MediaTek Labs and LinkIt Development Platform aimed at the do-it-yourself (DIY)—or maker—space, a growing space of developers interested […]

Pertino is expanding its cloud-based network-as-a-service solution by offering big data analytics capabilities to its platform, adding new network service applications to its app store and extending its reach through the launch of a formal partner program. The new capabilities and partner program, announced Sept. 22, come after Pertino first launched its solution in February […]

Brocade in November will launch a software-defined networking controller based on the OpenDaylight Foundation’s upcoming “Helium” release and which will represent the vendor’s latest move to grow its Vyatta platform. Brocade officials announced the company’s Vyatta Controller Sept. 22, calling it a foundational technology for its software-defined networking (SDN) and network-functions virtualization (NFV) platform. It […]

Toshiba is shifting the focus of its PC business from the consumer segment to commercial systems, a move that officials said will ensure that more than half of the company’s revenues by 2016 will come from its business-to-business products but cost the jobs of more than 900 people in the PC business. Toshiba officials said […]

Advanced Micro Devices executives during the Computex show in June simultaneously launched the Pro A-Series brand and new “Kaveri”-based chips for notebooks aimed at consumers as well as businesses. Combined, the announcements highlighted an aggressive push into the commercial PC chip space by AMD, a company that traditionally has had a significantly larger presence in […]

Apple’s introduction this month of its Watch will help fuel what Gartner analysts say will be growing interest in the wearable computing device toward the end of this year and into 2015. In a report Sept. 17, the analysts noted that nine of the top 10 smartphone makers are moving into the wearables market—compared with […]

AT&T is introducing a new service that will enable businesses to manage their network services via an online portal in almost real time, part of the telecommunications giant’s larger cloud networking initiative. The rollout of the Network on Demand service is the first for AT&T’s User Defined Network Cloud (UDNC) strategy, which the company first […]

NEC is leveraging Intel’s new mainstream Xeon E5-2660 v3 “Grantley” processors to power four new models of its Express5800 Series servers. The new systems, announced Sept. 17, come in rack, modular and blade form factors, and also now share a common design with NEC’s Storage Series with systems released in September and onward. In addition, […]

Cisco Systems is buying Memoir Systems to bring faster and more affordable memory technologies to the ASICs the networking vendor uses in its switches. According to Cisco, Memoir licenses its IP and offers tools that can speed up memory access by as much as 10 times while reducing the amount of space in the switch […]