Jeff Burt

Intel is offering new software aimed at ensuring that workloads in OpenStack cloud environments get the appropriate levels of performance and that enterprises can trust the level of security around those workloads. At an event in San Francisco May 21, Intel officials unveiled the company’s Datacenter Manager: Service Assurance Administrator (IDM:SSA), an OpenStack plug-in designed […]

SDN in Early Stages While Video Conferencing Goes Mainstream by Jeffrey Burt SDN Adoption on the Way Up More than one in five organizations—22 percent—will have deployed SDN this year, and that will grow to one in three by the end of 2015. Still, 68 percent of respondents said they have no plans to implement […]

Startup Mimosa Networks is getting another $20 million in financing in its effort to bring fiber-speed wireless connectivity to rural areas and developing countries. The company, whose founders have backgrounds with such technology vendors as Polycom, PictureTel and 2Wire, has now raised $38 million since its founding in 2012, and will use the new Series […]

Broadcom officials are focusing on security with the latest addition to its family of chips aimed at wearable devices and the Internet of things. The company on May 21 introduced the BCM20737 system-on-a-chip (SoC) that will leverage Bluetooth, RSA encryption and decryption capabilities, and Apple’s iBeacon device detection technology to increase on-chip security and privacy […]

Cisco Systems plans to add to its cyber-security capabilities by buying ThreatGrid, a privately held New York-based company that offers malware analysis and threat intelligence that can run both on-premises or in the cloud. Cisco officials announced their intent May 21, the last day of the Cisco Live 2014 event in San Francisco. The move […]

Craig Malloy left video conferencing vendor LifeSize Communications, the company he founded in 2003, two years ago to lead a startup company that makes online training software. While CEO of Bloomfire, Malloy said the 30-employee company needed a way to collaborate remotely, even though it didn’t have the money for any infrastructure or an IT […]

It was 50 years ago May 20 that two scientists in the famous Bell Labs in New Jersey, while experimenting with an antenna, discovered the first evidence of the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. The discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation eventually brought Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson the Nobel Prize […]

Extreme Networks is rounding out its IdentiFi WiFi solution with the addition of 802.11ac outdoor wireless access points. Extreme officials on May 20 announced the 3865 wireless LAN access point (AP), which combined with the indoor AP released in March gives what company officials said is a scalable offering that can be leveraged in indoor […]

Cloud computing has been a focus of Cisco Systems for much of this year. In January, the networking giant introduced the idea of a global “intercloud,” a series of interconnected cloud environments linked by Cisco technology through which Cisco and others can deliver applications and services. Two months later, Cisco officials announced the company will […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out the second generation of its Embedded R-series chips, taking another step in its efforts to expand its reach in the increasingly important embedded systems market. AMD officials unveiled the new chip portfolio—code-named “Bald Eagle”—May 20. The high-end embedded family includes CPUs and accelerated processing units (APUs) that feature both […]

PCs armed with Intel’s upcoming energy-efficient “Broadwell” processors reportedly will be on the shelves by the holidays, according to CEO Brian Krzanich. However, Krzanich, attending the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif., May 17, told Reuters that while Broadwell will start shipping in time to appear in products for the entire holiday shopping season, it […]

SAP and Microsoft are expanding their partnership in the areas of cloud computing, mobile and data interoperability. The moves, announced May 19, are an extension of a partnership that is going on two decades, and touch upon the some of the key drivers in the evolving technology landscape. “For our customers, SAP and Microsoft are […]