Jeff Burt

Revenue in the worldwide video conferencing equipment market continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2012, though there are growing reasons for optimism that things could improve in 2013, according to IDC analysts. The video conferencing space has shown a steady decline in revenue for several quarters, thanks in large part to the slowing […]

Intel is releasing its own distribution of Apache Hadoop, a move that not only helps push forward its software ambitions, but also will make it a significant player in the booming area of big data and help fuel sales of its Xeon server processors. During a Webcast press conference Feb. 26, Boyd Davis, vice president […]

Dell Latitude 10 Dell’s enhanced Latitude 10 tablet offers a range of security features, including Trusted Platform Module 1.2 hardware, Microsoft’s BitLocker Drive Encryption, and support for Computrace software, which will enable IT staffs to track and recover lost or stolen tablets. Fingerprint Scan Also new on the enhanced Latitude 10 is a fingerprint scan […]

Intel came into the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last month taking another big swing at the booming mobile device space, showing off low-power Atom chip platforms and outlining plans for making inroads in the value smartphone space in emerging markets. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona, Spain, this week, Intel executives […]

BOSTON — Dell is introducing the newest edition of its Windows 8-based tablet, a business-focused system with enhanced security and management capabilities aimed at verticals such as health care, education and government agencies. Dell announced the 10.1-inch Latitude 10 enhanced security configuration Feb. 25 after coming to several cities last week—including Boston—to talk about the […]

Cisco Systems officials at the Mobile World Congress event this week will be demonstrating new intelligent software and small cell hardware designed to make it easier for carriers to expand the connections of their wireless networks. At the show, which kicks off Feb. 25 in Barcelona, Spain, Cisco officials will show off their new Quantum […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are looking to expand their converged infrastructure offerings with new blade server, networking and storage offerings to deal with such data center trends as cloud, big data, mobility and bring-your-own-device (BYOD). HP unveiled the new products Feb. 19 during its annual Global Partner Conference, two days before rival VCE—a partnership between Cisco Systems, […]

Dell is beginning to show gains in its efforts to move away from a contracting PC market and become more of an enterprise solutions provider, a transformation that Dell executives hope to accelerate with their $24.4 billion plan to take the company private. The world’s third-largest PC maker saw revenues fall 11 percent in the […]

Tilera officials are continuing to grow the number of cores they’re putting on their processors as they push to eventually offer as many as 100 or more. The company took another step in that direction Feb. 19, when officials unveiled a 72-core processor, the Tile-Gx72. The new system-on-a-chip (SoC) is being aimed at such environments […]

Cisco Systems officials are kicking off a campaign aimed at highlighting what they say are significant shortcomings in rival Microsoft’s enterprise collaboration efforts. Cisco’s initiative—launched Feb. 18, on the eve of Microsoft’s Lync Conference 2013 in San Diego, Calif.—includes a survey conducted by the networking giant that officials say illustrates the differences in approach to […]

Intel officials are changing some of the goals they have for the next generation of their high-end Itanium platform, a move brought on by declining demand in the Unix server market and changing requirements of OEMs using Itanium, which essentially means Hewlett-Packard. Intel issued a brief, one-paragraph notice on its Website Jan. 31 announcing that […]

Extreme Networks officials are pushing the company’s software-defined networking efforts in the latest version of its ExtremeXOS network operating system, which they said is now shipping. The company’s ExtremeXOS v15.3 platform not only supports the SDN product portfolio released late last year by Big Switch Networks—support that Extreme officials said in November was coming—but also […]