Jeff Burt

Blue Jeans Network wants to make it easier for customers not only to talk with each other, but also executives and engineers at the video conferencing vendor. Blue Jeans has created an online forum that enables customers and other industry players to swap ideas, give feedback on products, suggest new features and offerings, get help […]

ARM and an open-source vendor consortium are looking to accelerate the adoption of 64-bit Android applications on upcoming mobile devices that will run an upcoming version of Google’s mobile operating system. ARM and Linaro, which is driving the development of open-source applications on ARM’s chip architecture, is rolling out a hardware development platform, code-named Juno, […]

Lenovo executives expect its $2.3 billion deal to buy IBM’s x86 server business to close by the end of the year despite national security concerns among U.S. regulators that reportedly have slowed the process. At a press conference July 2 in Hong Kong after the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanging reportedly said […]

Microsoft has thrown its considerable might behind the AllSeen Alliance, becoming the latest tech vendor to join the 6-month-old consortium that is working to build an open platform for the Internet of things. Microsoft on July 2 became the group’s 51st member, joining a range of other tech heavyweights and smaller vendors like Panasonic, Cisco […]

A group of tech companies that include networking vendors (Arista Networks and Mellanox Technologies), cloud companies (Microsoft and Google) and a component maker (Broadcom) has created an industry consortium to drive the development of 25 Gigabit Ethernet and 50 Gigabit Ethernet in large-scale data centers. The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium, announced July 1, has released […]

Amazon Web Services is launching a new set of small compute instances designed to offer organizations a low-cost level of capabilities for workloads that don’t require a lot of CPU power over a sustained time but may need to have quick access to more when demands arise. The new T2 compute instances, announced July 1, […]

Samsung is rolling out a smaller version of its Galaxy S5 smartphone, less than three months after the company launched its new flagship device. The new 4.5-inch Galaxy S5 mini continues Samsung’s tradition of offering a smaller, less expensive version of its flagship smartphone, and is illustrative of the company’s aggressive approach in a highly […]

The Russian government reportedly is pushing a program that would rid government systems of x86 processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, opting instead for a homegrown chip based on ARM’s 64-bit architecture. Russian news agencies like the Kommersant and Itar-Tass this month have run articles outlining the country’s Ministry of Industry plans, which will […]

Intel executives in July 2013 announced that the giant chip maker planned to release a system-on-a-chip version of its upcoming 14-nanometer Xeon “Broadwell” server processor, which will include such integrated features as fabric, I/O and accelerators. Intel already offers systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) in its low-power Atom platform for mobile devices, a market dominated by ARM-based SoCs […]

Enterprises understand what the Internet of things is and the benefits it can bring to their businesses, but many also say there are significant concerns over network capacity and security. In a survey commissioned by Infoblox, 90 percent of the 400 IT professionals interviewed said they are either planning or implementing various solutions to get […]

Cisco Systems has bought Assemblage, a collaboration company whose technology lets people collaborate through the browser on any device, a move that company officials said not only bolsters Cisco’s broad collaboration portfolio but also fits in with its efforts around the burgeoning Internet of things. Cisco announced the deal June 27, saying that Assemblage also […]

The market for converged data center solutions from the likes of Cisco Systems, Oracle, VCE and IBM continues to grow rapidly, with revenue jumping by 38.5 percent in the first three months of the year, according to IDC analysts. According to numbers the firm released June 26, first-quarter revenues worldwide for converged systems hit $1.95 […]