Jeff Burt

Sonus Networks officials are enhancing the company’s Session Border Controllers to make it easier for businesses to address the continuing issue of video in unified communications environments Video collaboration in the enterprise is still hindered by a range of challenges, from interoperability between different platforms to the growing number and variety of devices that are […]

Intel executives last month began to lay out the company’s strategy around the Internet of Things, including growing its new family of Quark chips and extending the capabilities in some of its Atom products. Now, the giant chip maker is creating a new business unit specifically aimed at the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT […]

NEW YORK—Cisco Systems is continuing its efforts to set the tone in a networking market that is undergoing significant change due to the growth of software-defined networking and the evolving demands from such trends as cloud computing, big data and mobility. At an event here Nov. 6, Cisco executives, including CEO John Chambers, unveiled the […]

Supercomputer maker Cray is expanding its storage capabilities with the introduction of a tiered archiving solution that offers organizations the ability to easily migrate data across four storage tiers. Cray will offer its Tiered Adaptive Storage (TAS) solution to its wide range of high-performance computing (HPC) customers, but officials said the tiered archiving offering also […]

Acer continues to be battered by competition from Apple and Samsung in the hotly contested mobile device space and is preparing to undergo its latest restructuring effort that will include cutting 7 percent of its workforce, ditching products and finding a new CEO. On the same day that Acer officials released quarterly financial numbers that […]

F5 Networks wants to make it easier for organizations to provision and deploy application services at a time when trends such as cloud computing, mobility, virtualization and software-defined everything continue to take hold in the data center. F5 officials are unveiling the company’s new architectural vision—F5 Synthesis—for what they’re calling software-defined application services, or SDAS. […]

Arista Networks is rolling out a new family of switches for software-defined networks that officials are calling better alternatives to rival Cisco Systems’ Catalyst 6500 products. The company is introducing its Arista 7000X Series, which officials said will help organizations collapse their two-tier leaf-and-spine designs into a single tier that they are calling a “Spline” […]

Amazon Web Services is offering new instances to its public cloud that will leverage Nvidia’s graphics technology and will be aimed at workloads that need high levels of parallel processing capabilities, such as video creation, visualization and streaming graphics-intensive applications. The new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G2 instances will use Nvidia’s Grid GPUs, which […]

At the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong this week, the Cisco is introducing accelerator packs designed to make it easier for organizations to deploy their OpenStack cloud infrastructures on Cisco’s UCS, which offers a tightly bundled package of Cisco server and networking technology with virtualization and storage capabilities from such partners as EMC and VMware. […]

Hewlett-Packard officials, who already have built x86-based blade systems for the company’s high-end Integrity Superdome systems that traditionally have run on Intel’s Itanium platform, will now port the NonStop systems to x86 as well. The move, announced Nov. 4, is part of HP’s larger Project Odyssey, a two-year-old effort designed to bring mission-critical capabilities to […]

The software-defined networking market will balloon over the next few years, according to analysts with the Dell’Oro Group. In a recent report, Dell’Oro analysts said they expect the SDN market to grow sixfold over the next five years, with Ethernet switches and network security appliances making up the bulk of the space. They will account […]

Cisco Systems officials caused a stir in the video conferencing market when they announced the company was essentially open sourcing its H.264 video codec implementation in hopes of making it the standard for WebRTC. H.264 is the most widely used codec in the real-time communications on the Internet, but using it also requires paying a […]