Jeff Burt

When Verizon began laying the groundwork several years ago for its new public cloud, company IT executives set several goals for the environment. They wanted consistent performance, high security and availability, and they didn’t want customers to have to modify their applications in order to run them in the cloud. They wanted few moving parts […]

Oracle’s proposed $1.5 billion acquisition of Responsys will give the enterprise application maker more capabilities around cloud-based sales and marketing software as it competes with the likes of Salesforce.com, SAP, Microsoft and Adobe. The move, announced Dec. 20, will bolster Oracle’s strength in the business-to-customer (B2C) part of the space, and comes a year after […]

Anturis is upgrading its namesake Antruis infrastructure monitoring system, about a week after announcing a $2 million round of financing. Anturis’ software is aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and Internet service providers, and is designed to bridge the gap between enterprise-class monitoring and troubleshooting solutions that are out of the price range of […]

Deactivating Old Mobile Devices: 8 Best Practices in a BYOD World by Jeffrey Burt Give Your Company’s IT Department a Heads-Up If you’re planning to use your new tablet or smartphone for business within your company’s BYOD program, notify your firm’s IT department that you will be swapping devices. Transfer Any Corporate Data From Your […]

Software-defined networking continues to get a lot of attention from organizations, vendors and the media, but it could take a while for technology to see widespread deployment, according to a new study looking at trends in the data center. At the same time, for those businesses that are looking to deploy software-defined networking (SDN) in […]

Acer, the embattled PC maker less than a month after overhauling its top executive positions, wants to remake itself as a PC vendor that also offers cloud software and services. The company is looking to leverage the cloud computing capabilities it already has—inherited through such deals as the $320 million acquisition of cloud specialist iGware […]

Calxeda, one of the leaders in developing ARM-based chips for low-power servers, is shutting down after a hoped-for round of funding fell through. Officials with Calxeda, which had been working with such top-tier server OEMs as Hewlett-Packard and Dell in bringing systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) based on the ARM architecture to servers, had thought they had financing […]

Cisco Systems is teaming up with VMware and Citrix Systems to offer service providers and enterprises a cloud-based desktop-as-a-service solution, which will complement Cisco’s existing on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure offering. The new Cisco Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering will be based on the networking giant’s Unified Computing System (UCS) converged data center solution and […]

Intel is making another move to get its technology out in front of businesses and consumers by signing up as the preferred technology partner at the San Francisco 49ers new stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., just a few miles away from the chip maker’s headquarters. The deal with the NFL team means that Intel will […]

Vidyo is touting another partnership for its software-based video conferencing technology, with officials announcing that social media vendor Rounds will integrate Vidyo’s VidyoWorks into its platform. The integration of VidyoWorks will give Rounds officials high-definition video conferencing capabilities that they can offer users of their social media platform. The move will bring a heightened real-time […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, in the middle of a multiyear effort to remake the giant tech vendor, is getting a significant pay raise. When Whitman took over as president and CEO in September 2011, she said she would take an annual salary of $1. Granted, stock options and bonuses helped boost what she took home […]

Microsoft officials believe software-defined networking will have a significant impact on unified communications, including the company’s own Lync platform. Unified communications (UC) deployments are rife with network elements, such as routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and application delivery controllers, according to Jamie Stark, senior product marketing manager for Lync at Microsoft. All these need to […]