Jeff Burt

The continued shift of video conferencing to software and smaller and lower-cost systems is continuing to take its toll on a video communications equipment market that is in decline, according to IDC analysts. The analysts found that in the second quarter, worldwide revenues for video conferencing equipment fell 10.7 percent over the same period in […]

Vidyo is partnering with Google to improve the quality of video within browsers armed with WebRTC capabilities. Per the agreement, Vidyo will create a Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension for Google’s open-source VP9 codec, which will be used in the larger WebRTC project. “We will now combine the power of WebRTC with the benefits of […]

The worldwide server market continues to be battered by various market forces such as virtualization, consolidation and aggressive pricing, forcing systems makers to scramble to stake claims in such burgeoning areas as hyperscale environments and converged solutions. Some OEMs—particularly Cisco Systems and Dell—are benefitting from efforts to get out in front of certain trends, seeing […]

VMware is working with Mitel and Vidyo to bring integrated unified communications and video conferencing into its VMware View virtual desktop infrastructure offering. The three companies are demonstrating the joint solution this week at the VMworld 2013 show in San Francisco. The offering integrates Mitel’s virtualized Unified Communicator Advanced client software and Vidyo’s VidyConferencing solution […]

VMware Teams Up With HP, Dell, Juniper, Others on NSX Platform By Jeffrey Burt NSX Combines VMware and Nicira Technology VMware created NSX by bringing together its own vCloud Network and Security technology with Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform. The technology will enable organizations to do with network virtualization what they have done with server virtualization—treat […]

Mitel is partnering with Black Box to offer cloud-based unified communications capabilities to businesses in the United States. Under the agreement announced Aug. 26, Black Box, through its network services, will market, sell and support Mitel’s cloud-based MiCloud collaboration suite. The move represents an expanded partnership between the unified communications (UC) vendor and Black Box, […]

VMware, with its new NSX network virtualization platform and the growing list of industry partners, is ramping up what is promising to be a highly contentious competition with Cisco Systems in the software-defined networking world. NSX, introduced Aug. 26 on the first day of the VMworld 2013 show in San Francisco, marries VMware’s network virtualization […]

Many government agency IT administrators, under pressure to make their infrastructures more efficient and to drive down operating and capital expenses, see software-defined networks as a possible solution to some of their problems, according to a recent survey released by Juniper Networks. However, the lack of knowledge about SDN—which has been getting the lion’s share […]

Hewlett-Packard and VMware are partnering to offer organizations a federated networking solution that will give them unified automation and management of their physical and virtual data center networks, providing greater agility and flexibility as they embrace cloud computing and mobility. The federated solution, which was introduced Aug. 26 at the VMworld 2013 show in San […]

Dell is rolling out a new network switch designed for cloud data center environments that are highly virtualized and run such workloads as big data and virtual desktop infrastructures. In addition, the company’s S6000 offers double the density, greater energy efficiency and the ability to bridge the communications gap between physical hardware and virtual machines, […]

VMware officials are unveiling a host of offerings aimed at giving organizations the necessary tools to create software-defined data centers for their cloud computing deployments. On the first day of the VMworld 2013 show in San Francisco Aug. 26, company officials introduced new virtualization software offerings for the infrastructure layer, as well as software solutions […]

HP’s Road Back to Profitability Fraught With Challenges By Jeffrey Burt PCs Continue to Be a Problem The rapid decline in the worldwide PC market took a lot of tech vendors by surprise, including HP, which is now the world’s second-largest PC vendor after being overtaken by Lenovo. The Personal Systems Group saw revenue in […]