Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems officials have been warning about the explosive growth of Internet traffic that will hit over the next few years, as more people use more connected devices that will generate massive amounts of data. In the company’s latest Visual Networking Index report, Cisco officials are projecting that global Internet traffic will triple between 2012 […]

Vidyo and Zoom Video Communications are unveiling the next versions of their respective video conferencing solutions. At the InfoComm 2013 show in Orlando, Fla., June 12, Vidyo officials announced VidyoConferencing 3.0, which they said offers a newly designed integrated desktop and a remote-control application for mobile devices running Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems, […]

Former executives from Cisco Systems and Tandberg are launching a company that offers video conferencing as a software-based service that runs on a variety of hardware, mobile devices and virtualization platforms. Pexip officials officially announced the 40-person company and its solution, Infinity, June 12 at the InfoComm 2013 show in Orlando, Fla. The idea behind […]

Dell Bidders Looking at Possible Replacements for Michael Dell by Jeffrey Burt Michael Dell Wants to Take His Namesake Company Private In February, CEO Michael Dell announced a plan to buy his company in conjunction with Silver Lake Partners for $24.4 billion and take it private. He has argued that the plan gives the company […]

Advanced Micro Devices is flexing its muscles a bit with the release of the industry’s first commercial 5GHz CPU, unveiling the eight-core FX-9590. AMD, which sees the gaming industry as a growth opportunity, rolled out the FX-9590 and FX-9370—at 4.7GHz—June 11 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. The two new CPUs are […]

Calxeda, which makes server chips based on the ARM architecture, is continuing to expand the partners it’s working with to get its offerings into the data center. The company on June 11 announced a partnership with Inktank, the company that distributes the highly scalable, open-source Ceph distributed storage system. The two vendors are working to […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out new and enhanced servers aimed at smaller businesses, including the latest model in its line of ProLiant MicroServers. HP officials unveiled the new systems June 11, saying they are simpler to deploy and manage as well as easier to afford, which is important to small businesses that don’t have the IT […]

Cisco Systems is bringing its TelePresence video conferencing technology to iRobot’s Ava 500 collaboration robot. Cisco and iRobot have signed a joint marketing agreement and are working together to bring Ava 500 to market, according to officials with both companies. In addition, they will show off the robot during the InfoComm 2013 Conference and Expo […]

Dell investors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management are floating some names as possible CEO replacements for Michael Dell in case they are successful in derailing his efforts to buy out his namesake company and take it private. According to a report in Reuters, the short list of names looks familiar to a rumored list […]

Intel officials have spent most of their time when talking about the “Haswell” processor microarchitecture focusing on what it will mean in the PC and mobile device markets. At the Computex 2013 show in Taiwan, much of the focus around the release of Haswell was on the fourth-generation Core chips for PCs, and the systems […]

Intel, AMD, ARM Unveil New Chips, Designs at Computex by Jeffrey Burt Intel Launches the Core Haswell Chips for New Form Factors Intel officials have been touting Haswell for months, talking about its improved performance, graphics and power efficiency. The SoCs not only will power traditional notebooks, but also new form factors such as Ultrabooks, […]

Big Switch Networks, a key player in the burgeoning software-defined network market, is essentially leaving the open-source OpenDaylight Project it helped found only two months ago. In a June 5 post on Big Switch’s blog, CEO Guido Appenzeller said the project’s decision to create to merge the software-defined network (SDN) controller technologies from Big Switch […]