Jeff Burt

Modern Meetings: Fast, Online and Happening at Any Time by Jeffrey Burt Most Meetings Last Less Than an Hour Though they may feel like they go on forever, an average business meeting lasts 45 minutes, and has 4.3 participants. Women Are Attending More Meetings According to Blue Jeans’ survey, women attend 11 percent more meetings […]

Justin Rattner, Intel’s CTO and director of Intel Labs, is stepping down from the positions in compliance with company bylaws that block employees from serving as corporate officers after they turn 65. Rattner, who has been with Intel since 1973 after stints with Hewlett-Packard and Xerox, will return to Intel after taking an immediate personal […]

Avaya is creating a new consulting service designed to guide businesses interested in moving their communications efforts to the cloud. The company’s Cloud Transformation Services will help enterprises map out and deploy a cloud-based unified communications (UC) strategy that best meets their business objectives, according to Avaya officials. The consulting services also will help service […]

Imagination Technologies last year bought MIPS Technologies’ chip business with an eye toward the booming mobile device market, and now company officials are beginning to shed light on what will be the first products from that acquisition. The company, best known for its graphics core technology that is found in a range of mobile chips, […]

Cray and SGI both announced deals that are bringing their computing solutions to institutions conducting research into such areas as weather prediction and earthquakes. Cray officials on June 26 said that the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) will use two Cray XC30 supercomputers and the company’s Sonexion storage technology in its next operational […]

Broadcom officials are introducing its latest StrataXGS chip that will enable wireless carriers to better address the capacity and management challenges caused by the rapid growth in mobile and video Internet traffic, the number of connected mobile devices and changes in the mobile backhaul network. The company’s StrataXGS BCM56450 switch, armed with an integrated traffic […]

Android, ARM Break Intel, AMD Reliance on Wintel to Power PCs, Servers by Jeffrey Burt Intel Embraces Google’s Android OS Intel was late to recognize the tectonic shift that smartphones and tablets would cause among PCs. However, the giant chip maker has spent the past few years catching up, and in 2010 it started talking […]

Cisco Systems officials are unveiling a data center architecture that they say will focus on the new kinds of applications coming from the cloud and mobile worlds and deliver to businesses the tools to make their infrastructures simpler, more scalable and more cost-effective. Announced June 26 at the company’s Cisco Live 2013 conference in Orlando, […]

Mitel Communications is bringing video capabilities to its unified communications offerings by integrating Vidyo’s software-based video and telepresence solutions across its entire line of collaboration products. Mitel also is making Vidyo’s solutions part of its cloud-based communications offering, MiCloud. The integration of Vidyo’s technology, announced June 25, fills a critical gap in Mitel’s unified communications […]

Cisco Systems is one of several U.S.-based tech companies that Chinese media reports are claiming are being used to help the U.S. government spy on China in the wake of details about government surveillance programs leaked by former intelligence consultant Edward Snowden. According to reports, Chinese media are claiming that Cisco, Microsoft, Apple, Google and […]

Cisco CEO John Chambers is continuing to push the message that the Internet of Everything is the next big transition for businesses, and that his company is uniquely positioned to help organizations take advantage of it. In his keynote address June 25 at the Cisco Live 2013 show in Orlando, Fla., Chambers noted that over […]

Cisco Systems officials are refreshing the company’s campus and edge switches and routers, bringing greater programmability to the appliances as the company looks to continue pushing forward with its Cisco Open Network Environment initiative. The new and enhanced switches and routers, announced June 24 at the Cisco Live 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla., are part […]