Jeff Burt

Unified communications, video collaboration and cloud computing were all key topics at the recently concluded three-day Enterprise Connect 2013 show in Orlando, Fla. Attendees heard from such keynote speakers as Kevin Kennedy, president and CEO of Avaya, who talked about how enterprises and end users can take advantage of the increasing connectedness in the business […]

Michael Dell’s already rocky road to take his namesake company private is getting more challenging, with reports that investment firm Blackstone Group is considering making its own bid to buy it. Blackstone reportedly is one of several organizations—others include PC rivals Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo—that have looked over Dell’s financial records as officials mull a bid […]

Cisco Systems, long known for its hardware offerings in everything from networking to communications, is rolling out a series of software offerings that officials believe will help drive business adoption of collaboration solutions. Cisco officials, at the Enterprise Connect 2013 conference in Orlando, Fla., unveiled software products that push forward the notion of any time, […]

ARM Holdings, which has emerged in recent years as a key rival to giant chip maker Intel, will soon have a new top executive running the company. Warren East, who as CEO has overseen ARM’s rise to prominence as its low-power processor designs have come to dominate the booming mobile device space, announced March 19 […]

Hewlett-Packard is offering networking gear designed to make it easier for businesses to deploy and manage their increasingly varied communications solutions. At the Enterprise Connect 2013 show in Orlando, Fla., March 19, HP officials are introducing multi-service routers (MSRs) aimed at giving organizations the network infrastructure they need to create highly collaborative environments that can […]

Juniper Networks officials are bringing the company’s Converged SuperCore networking architecture to a wider range of service providers. Two years after introducing the Converged SuperCore solution in the form of the PTX5000 router, Juniper is rolling out the PTX3000 Packet Transport Router, a core router that is significantly smaller for customers that want to deploy […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers always felt that he and his executives were doing a good job creating a positive working environment for women. Then he read “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” and spoke with the author of the newly published book, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. Now, Chambers said, […]

Riverbed Technology officials are looking to make it easier for businesses to fit the company’s application performance tools into their environments. Riverbed is offering IT professionals a set of developer tools and new product capabilities that will enable them to customize their infrastructures to meet their particular business demands and to give end users the […]

An Apple executive took a shot at Samsung and the next model of its Android-based smartphone, less than a day before the larger rival was set to release its Galaxy S IV device. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal late March 13, Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, played […]

BOSTON—IBM and officials with the city of Boston, Boston University and the commonwealth of Massachusetts used new projects that are getting under way as the cornerstone of a far-reaching conference on the issue of using technology to improve how cities and state agencies work. The conference on the Boston University (BU) campus here March 13 […]

Cisco Systems officials are introducing a router they say is built for a more mobile business world that is increasingly housing its applications in the cloud or centralizing them in the data center. In its new Integrated Services Router with Application Experience (ISR-AX), Cisco is integrating features that in the past had been outside the […]

Advanced Micro Devices is launching its next generation of computer chips that officials say will fuel great user experiences and interesting system designs from OEMs by offering new features while driving down power consumption. With the first of its new Elite A-Series accelerated processing units (APUs), AMD officials are pointing to capabilities that will help […]