Jeff Burt

FuzeBox, which offers cloud-based communications and collaboration services, is getting a new CEO, some new executives and another $26 million in funding. FuzeBox also is unveiling a new “freemium” service that is designed to ramp up adoption of the company’s offerings by enabling businesses to try out the service before deciding whether to subscribe. The […]

Hewlett-Packard is hitting the market with a spate of consumer notebooks and tablets that come with everything from gesture control technology from Leap Motion to Intel’s new Haswell Core and Atom Z3000 Bay Trail chips and two-in-one designs to Nvidia’s Tegra Note tablet platform. The giant tech vendor’s offerings, announced Sept. 19, also support a […]

8×8 is bringing its mobile unified communications technology to smartphones and tablets running Google’s Android operating system. The company on Sept. 19 announced version 4.0 of its Virtual Office mobile app, which adds such unified communications (UC) capabilities as video calling over 4G and WiFi networks, visual voicemail, and management of instant messaging/presence and fax […]

Network Instruments, which sells a range of products aimed at helping businesses better manage their networking environments, is getting into the competitive and mature network monitoring switch space. The company is rolling out the Matrix network monitoring switch that officials say not only will complement such Network Instruments’ products as its Gigastor network analyzer appliances […]

RightScale, which offers a range of cloud management capabilities, is expanding the cloud resources it can manage to the networking environment. The company on Sept. 18 launched Network Manager, designed to make it easier for businesses and partners to manage cloud networking resources and to more easily secure both public and private cloud networking. Network […]

Nvidia, which is pushing more into hardware design, as evidenced by the release of its Shield handheld gaming device, is unveiling a tablet platform powered by its Tegra 4 mobile chip and which will be sold by a range of partners. Nvidia on Sept. 18 unveiled the 7-inch reference architecture, which embodies Nvidia technology from […]

Brocade officials are adding more capabilities to the company’s VCS Fabric offering and VDX switch portfolio, including multitenancy, storage-aware networking and 100 Gigabit Ethernet performance. The enhancements to the network virtualization portfolio bolster what company officials have called key building blocks of Brocade’s On-Demand Data Center initiative, which aims to combine the best of virtual […]

Blue Jeans Network, the four-year-old company that offers cloud-based video conferencing technology, has raised another $50 million in financing, essentially doubling the funding it has received. Company officials announced Sept. 18 that the latest round of funding was led by Battery Ventures, and includes contributions from previous investors Accel Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Northwest […]

Hewlett-Packard and F5 Networks are bulking up their security capabilities for Web, mobile and BYOD environments. HP, as part of a series of security-related announcements Sept. 17, launched its TippingPoint next-generation firewall (NGFW), which is designed to offer high-performance network security with granular application visibility and control over mobile and Web apps. At the same […]

Supercomputer maker Cray is partnering with ScaleMP to create two new configurations of its CS300 compute cluster that will bring large memory and shared memory solutions to the portfolio. Cray will leverage ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation high-end virtualization technology in the new solutions—the CS300 LMS system and CS300 SMP—that will enable end users to take jobs […]

The man named in the shooting spree at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., Sept. 16 that left at least 12 people dead worked for a subcontractor of Hewlett-Packard. According to the tech giant, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis, who was killed by authorities during the rampage, was employed by a company call The Experts, a […]

The Internet of Things is getting a lot of attention from such silicon makers as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Cisco Systems. The vendors are looking to supply the chips that will help fuel a market that Cisco officials have said already has helped businesses reap more than $613 billion in profits this year alone, […]