Jeff Burt

Polycom is building on its partnership with Microsoft by rolling out a new video conferencing room system for the software maker’s Lync unified communications platform. Polycom’s CX8000 offering expands the company’s portfolio of more than 40 offerings for Lync and further strengthens a partnership with Microsoft that has spanned more than 10 years and has […]

Reports that layoffs at Dell could hit as many as 15,000 employees are “wildly inaccurate,” according to a company spokesman. The tech Website The Register, citing unnamed sources within the newly private tech vendor, reported that Dell officials could begin the job-cutting process as early as this week, and that they could number as many […]

Dell, less than five months after becoming a private company again, reportedly is looking at significant job cuts as part of its efforts to move its focus away from PCs and more toward growing its enterprise IT solutions offerings. Citing unnamed sources within the company and internal emails, the tech site The Register said the […]

The Open Networking Foundation, which is one of several organizations pushing the adoption of software-defined networking, is making it easier for startups to join. The standards and technologies group, which has been around since 2011, already boasts a membership of almost 130 companies—including such big and diverse names as Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Google, […]

ShoreTel, which has been aggressively enabling organizations to use its unified communications solutions, either on premises or in the cloud, now is enabling customers to deploy them in a virtualized environment. The company is launching ShoreTel 14.2, which is designed to let companies deploy their unified communications (UC) solutions in the way that best suits […]

Genband is looking to offer a software-based unified communications solution that can be leveraged by enterprises that are dealing with trends toward greater worker mobility and cloud computing. The company is unveiling its Generation Enterprise unified communications (UC) framework that brings together its range of technologies around voice, video and collaboration capabilities—and its new WebRTC […]

Lenovo, With IBM and Motorola Deals, Caps Busy January by Jeffrey Burt Lenovo Becomes a Significant Server Player After IBM Deal Once the deal closes, Lenovo will go from being the sixth-largest server vendor in the world to number three, behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell. Making a Play in China As analysts have mentioned, Lenovo—with IBM’s […]

Acer and Asus reportedly are getting ready to jump into the growing wearable computing market later this year. Acer officials have been talking about getting into the space since last year, and Taiwan’s Central News Agency, citing an anonymous source within the company, is reporting this week that the PC maker has plans to enter […]

Much of the news coming out of the Open Compute Summit this week revolved around such high-profile names as Facebook, ARM, Advanced Micro Devices, Microsoft and Seagate. For example, ARM issued a platform standard for the servers that will run on its 64-bit chip designs, while AMD introduced its first ARM chip, the A1100 “Seattle” […]

Dell’s much-anticipated Project Ophelia—the Android-based pocket-sized device that can turn any display into a cloud-based computer—is now on the market. The newly privatized company announced the availability of Dell Wyse Cloud Connect, a small device that was introduced a year ago as a way of bringing virtual desktop and personal cloud services to any display […]

Intel’s AppUp app store, which the company first announced in 2010 in hopes of driving consumer interest in new form factors such as netbooks and Ultrabooks, will close in March as the chip maker shifts more of its focus to platform development and business technologies. In a brief statement on the app store’s Website, Intel […]

ARM and a number of chip-making partners, software vendors and server OEMs are rolling out a platform standard for servers running 64-bit chips based on the company’s designs, the latest move by the company as it looks to challenge Intel in the data center. ARM officials on Jan. 29 announced the ARM Server Base System […]