Jeff Burt

Intel officials are seeing strong demand for business PCs, a trend that is driving their financial forecast for the quarter and the year higher. The company late June 12 reported that second-quarter revenues now will come in at about $13.7 billion, up from the $13 billion executives forecast in April. In addition, the officials said […]

Mobility, Non-PC Devices Will Define Internet’s Future by Jeffrey Burt 1.6 Zettabytes Is a Lot of Traffic Between 1984 and 2013, 1.3 zettabytes of IP traffic was generated, according to Cisco. That will be eclipsed in 2018 alone. For comparison’s sake, 1.6 zettabytes is equal to more than 1.5 trillion gigabytes. That Boils Down to […]

Since joining Advanced Micro Devices in 2012 as part of a new management team under new CEO Rory Read, Lisa Su has been among the highest profile executives at the chip vendor, leading its product strategy and business plans and taking the stage at most of the company’s events. In its latest restructuring, Su—who had […]

Symantec, Red Bend Software and Local Motors are among the newest members of the AllSeen Alliance, highlighting the open-source consortium’s growing efforts around security and a broader reach for the Internet of things. The addition of six new members and five more sponsored members brings the group’s membership to 50 since it launched in December […]

Intel lost its bid to have overturned a $1.4 billion fine levied five years ago by the European Union over anti-competitive practices. The General Court of the European Union on June 12 ruled that the European Commission—the antitrust arm of the EU—was correct in finding that Intel used its dominant position in the x86 space […]

Qualcomm officials want to make it easier for residents and small business owners to get improved wireless coverage in their homes and offices. The chip vendor on June 11 unveiled the FSM90xx system-on-a-chip (SoC) that will enable vendors that build wireless access points (APs) to use this small cell chip technology in their products to […]

Intel is working with San Jose, Calif., officials on a pilot program designed to use technology to help improve the operations of the Silicon Valley city and the lives of the people who live and work there. The smart city project, announced June 11, is part of the White House SmartAmerica Challenge program announced in […]

Oracle’s hardware focus usually is around its engineered servers that are based on the SPARC and Solaris technologies inherited when the company bought Sun Microsystems in 2010. However, Oracle officials also have kept building on the company’s x86 server business, and are now launching two new workload-specific systems. The new Sun Server X4-4 and X4-8 […]

Cisco Systems officials are saying that global Internet traffic will continue to climb fast between now and 2018, a trend that the giant networking vendor has found over the past nine years of the annual report it issues on the subject. But while the upward direction of traffic might be of no surprise, what is […]

Brocade over the past several years has been building out its networking capabilities through both in-house development and outside acquisitions, in particular its purchase of Foundry Networks in 2008 and software-defined networking specialist Vyatta in late 2012. The company also has been adding to its management team, hiring industry veterans with backgrounds in such areas […]

Lenovo’s server business isn’t standing still while the company works to complete its $2.3 billion deal to buy IBM’s x86 systems business. The company on June 10 unveiled the ThinkServer RS140, a 1U (1.75-inch) rack system aimed at small and midsize businesses and remote offices. The system is armed with a single Intel processor—options range […]

Genband is taking steps into the Network-Functions Virtualization space with a demonstration of its new NFV-enabled distributed session border controller at its Perspectives14 customer event in Orlando, Fla., June 10. The distributed session border controller (D-SBC) will enable network operators to bring signaling to the edge of the network, providing greater deployment flexibility in sharing […]