Jeff Burt

ShoreTel officials are forming a committee to explore various options for the business communications company, which could include everything from selling all or parts of the company to joint ventures and partnerships. The company’s board of directors has formed a strategic advisory committee that will advise the full board on the various options while ShoreTel […]

BlackBerry CEO John Chen over the past several months has made software licensing a key part of his efforts to drive revenue in the struggling mobile device maker, saying he wants to better monetize the company’s more than 38,000 patents. Now BlackBerry is suing Avaya, claiming the networking and communications technology provider has infringed on […]

Protecting the Corporate Network, Apps From the Rio Olympics Companies typically experience network performance due to employees streaming high-profile events. With the Olympics upon us, here are ways to alleviate strains on the network this time around. Plenty of Livestreaming Opportunities During the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, there were 8.2 billion page views and 628 […]

Dell is expanding its long-time partnership with enterprise software maker SAP with the launch of an innovation lab designed to give businesses the tools they need to assess, develop and test workloads for SAP’s HANA in-memory analytics offering. Dell Services’ SAP HANA lab will enable customers to put as much as 30 terabytes of data […]

Intel officials, who have targeted the internet of things and wearable devices as key growth areas, are recalling its Basis Peak smartwatches due to overheating issues that they say could cause a user’s skin to burn or blister. The chip maker issued the voluntary recall Aug. 3 after almost two months of trying unsuccessfully to […]

Intel officials continue to push the chip maker away from the contracting PC space while putting more attention on areas such as the data center, cloud, connectivity and the internet of things (IoT). In a filing this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), company officials reiterated the strategy that they call the “Virtuous […]

The first half of year has not been easy for supercomputer maker Cray. The company not only has been working in a high-end supercomputing market that is seeing a slowdown in demand, but also has been dealing with issues integrating new technologies—in particular chips from Intel and graphics technology from Nvidia—that could impact the delivery […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman once ran as a Republican for the California gubernatorial seat, served on the campaigns of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and N.J. Gov. Chris Christie and has used her considerable wealth to back other Republican candidates as well. Now Whitman says she will not only vote for Democratic candidate […]

Service providers and telecommunications companies have a new tool they can use in their efforts to transform their networks into highly scalable, agile and affordable infrastructures similar to those run by cloud providers. The Linux Foundation and the Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) recently spun out what had been a use case within the ON.Lab’s ONOS […]

HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Cisco, Nutanix Headline Crowded Hyperconverged Field Hyperconverged data center systems are the newest rage in the converged market space. Here’s a look at some of the top players in the market. HPE Focuses on the Midmarket Hewlett Packard Enterprise in March launched the Hyper Converged 380, which is built on the company’s […]