Jeff Burt

One of the most common ways that enterprises will be able to use drones will be to inspect and analyze remote or hard-to-reach structures or systems. AT&T and Intel, in separate demonstrations, put such capabilities on display. At the carrier’s Shape Conference in San Francisco, AT&T officials are showing how the company is using drones […]

The Obama administration is launching a $400 million initiative to drive research into advanced wireless technologies that officials say will bring 100 times the speed of current 4G LTE networks, a move that comes a day after federal regulators voted to open more U.S. airwaves to 5G wireless networks and applications. The $400 million Advanced […]

AT&T officials are following through on a promise to release the management and automation platform for the company’s software-centric network initiative to the open-source community. Through the move, the carrier is enabling service providers and cloud developers access to its Enhance Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP) platform in hopes of accelerating innovation in networks […]

Officials with Glue Networks want to make it easier for organizations to orchestrate and automate their existing network infrastructures, which tend to be multivendor and are becoming increasingly complex. The company has upgraded its Gluware to give network engineers a tool to automate their brownfield physical and virtual network architectures that are built using technologies […]

Private equity firms reportedly are looking into Intel’s security business amid rumors that the chip maker is considering selling off the unit. According to a report by Bloomberg, such firms as Thoma Bravo, Permira and Vista Equity Partners are among those doing research in case Intel decides to sell the security business, which is primarily […]

Meetings Are More Productive Than Many Think, ShoreTel Survey Finds Company meetings generally are viewed as a time-waster—or are they? Here we dissect a ShoreTel report that shows workers’ true feelings about meetings. Yes, We Have Meetings Three-quarters of all survey respondents—76 percent—said they spend an hour or less each weekday in meetings. Gen X […]

Plexxi is upgrading its network fabric to give organizations that are looking to embrace converged infrastructures better control and visibility into their networks. Traditional data center featured physically separated networks for different workloads like virtualization, big data analytics and storage, which are placed in different compute hardware, according to Plexxi officials. It’s a system that’s […]

A networking testing lab at the University of New Hampshire is creating a consortium that will give vendors a place to test the interoperability of their network virtualization controllers and apps with switches and measure how they conform with industry standards and how they perform in benchmark tests. Starting Aug. 1, the University of New […]

AT&T is giving developers the connectivity, hardware and application tools they need to accelerate their work in the Internet of things. The carrier is rolling out its all-in-one IoT Starter Kit, a collection of technologies that officials said will make it easier for developers to more quickly spin out IoT offerings. AT&T worked with Cisco […]

A former executive with chip maker Advanced Micro Devices will assume the job of taking over the channel operations after Dell completes its $62 billion acquisition of storage vendor EMC. John Byrne, who has been at Dell for the past year in sales and channel roles after spending more than eight years with AMD, will […]

Cisco Systems is enlisting partners in its efforts to grow the use of chat bots on its Spark collaboration platform, an area in the enterprise communications space that is gaining more attention from such top-tier vendors as Microsoft and Facebook. Cisco is teaming up with Gupshup, which builds bot platforms, and natural language technology vendor […]

Cisco Systems executives are using the company’s user conference this week to put an emphasis on the need for greater network security as organizations make their way to becoming digital businesses. On the first day of the Cisco Live 2016 event in Las Vegas, CEO Chuck Robbins and other officials stressed that the rapidly changing […]