Jeff Burt

Riverbed Technology, whose SteelCentral platform already monitors the performance of back-end infrastructures and networks, will soon expand those capabilities to end-user devices. The company is buying Aternity, whose products monitor the performance of applications on physical and mobile end-user devices and will be added to the SteelCentral portfolio. The result will be the ability of […]

Oracle is bolstering its aggressive cloud efforts by spending $9.3 billion to acquire NetSuite, among the first companies to begin selling enterprise software via subscriptions. The deal, which was announced July 28 and is expected to close this month, will bring a broad array of complementary cloud applications into the fold, according to Oracle co-CEO […]

Qualcomm, the world’s largest supplier of processors for smartphones and other mobile devices, reportedly will pay $19.5 million to settle a dispute with current and former female employees who claim the company discriminated against women in terms of pay and promotions. In addition, as part of the settlement, Qualcomm officials also agreed to change its […]

Dialpad officials are on a mission to enable businesspeople to break away from their traditional desk phones for good. The 5-year-old company, founded primarily by people who used to work on Google Voice and which is a member of the Google for Work program, offers businesses a portfolio of cloud-only collaboration tools such as voice, […]

LogMeIn is buying Citrix Systems’ GoTo online collaboration portfolio in a $1.8 billion deal that will create a larger company to compete with top-tier rivals in the market, including Cisco Systems and Microsoft. The combined business will have more than $1 billion in revenue, almost 3,000 employees and more than 2 million customers worldwide, and […]

A10 Networks is accelerating its push into the cloud-based applications services market with the recent acquisition of Appcito, which sold application delivery services via the cloud. Appcito, which A10 bought in June but is only talking about now, has become the larger company’s cloud unit, which officials said will help A10 differentiate from such competitors […]

The Pokemon Go mobile game phenomenon continues to gain steam, with app analytics firm Sensor Tower saying that the game has been downloaded 75 million times since its release July 6. The app is not only wildly popular across the globe, but also is putting tremendous pressure on networks as millions of users download the […]

Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices are ramping up the competition in the professional graphics market with new GPUs and other technologies aimed at workstation users running such workloads as virtual reality and high-end gaming. The graphics card vendors introduced their new offerings this week at the SIGGRAPH Conference in Anaheim, Calif., with officials pointing to […]

Verizon and AT&T are launching programs to offer business customers virtualized network services that can be deployed and managed easily in their data centers. The two carriers, both of which are pursuing initiatives to transform their own networking infrastructures by leveraging such technologies as software-defined networking (SDN) and network-functions virtualization, announced their network services efforts […]

The booming hyperconverged infrastructure space has a new company in the mix now that startups Gridstore and DCHQ have merged to create HyperGrid, a vendor that officials say is offering a hyperconverged infrastructure-as-a-service. HyperGrid officials announced the Gridstore-DCHQ deal July 25, though no financial details were announced. The company is looking to combine Gridstore’s hyperconverged […]

Ericsson fired CEO Hans Vestberg after the latest quarterly financial numbers showed the Swedish telecommunications equipment provider was continuing to struggle in a rapidly changing market that includes rising competitors such as Huawei Technologies and Nokia. The ousting of Vestberg July 25 came a week after Ericsson announced that revenue in the second quarter fell […]

The decision by British voters last month to have England leave the European Union will drive down tech markets not only in the United Kingdom but throughout much of Europe, and the fallout will be felt for at least the next couple of years, according to analysts with Forrester Research. In addition, the Brexit vote […]