Jeff Burt

Riverbed Technology wants to give enterprises and service providers greater visibility into the performance of their networks in virtualized environments. Riverbed officials are expanding the capabilities of its Cascade portfolio of network performance management products, including the unveiling of Cascade 10.0, which is designed to address performance management across all levels of a virtualized environment—including […]

BroadSoft is introducing a unified communications platform designed to reduce complexity and make it easier for service providers to offer new UC solutions more quickly to their customers. BroadSoft’s UC One platform gives service providers a single platform from which to design and introduce communications offerings to end users of all kinds, from small businesses […]

Vidyo is unveiling a host of new products that officials said will offer users a better video conferencing experience at a cost much lower than what’s offered by larger vendors, such as Cisco Systems and Polycom. At the Gartner Symposium and ITExpo 2012 in Orlando, Fla., this week, Vidyo officials are demonstrating a software-based Executive […]

Cisco Systems officials see network traffic in data centers continuing to skyrocket, and cloud computing workloads playing an increasingly large role in that growth. In its second annual Cisco Global Cloud Index, the networking giant said that worldwide data center traffic will quadruple by 2016, reaching a total of 6.6 zettabyes. In addition, the global […]

Advanced Micro Devices’ efforts to gain a foothold in the fast-growing tablet market got a boost, with Fujitsu incorporating AMD’s Z-60 chip in its new Stylistic Q572 tablet. AMD officials announced Oct. 22 that Fujitsu is using their accelerated processing unit (APU) in the 10.1-inch Windows tablet. The announcement came less than three weeks after […]

Advanced Micro Devices is making its latest push against Intel for the gamer and PC enthusiast customer segment, releasing the latest of its FX series of desktop processors that offer as many as eight cores, more speed than previous versions and the company’s new Piledriver architecture. AMD on Oct. 23 unveiled the first four “Vishera” […]

Brocade is bulking up its software-defined networking and cloud computing strategies at the expense of rival Cisco Systems. Brocade has hired David Meyer, a 15-year veteran at Cisco who had been a Distinguished Engineer with the networking giant focused on SDNs and the OpenFlow protocol, to head its service provider business as its chief technology […]

Microsoft is unveiling the new Skype app for Windows 8, four days ahead of the much-anticipated release of the new operating system. The software giant is tightly integrating the Skype communications technology into Windows 8, with officials saying Microsoft is making it a key feature in the operating system, putting it front-and-center when a user […]

Advanced Micro Devices is cutting another 15 percent of its workforce as its looks to slash costs and regain its footing in the face of a slowing PC market that is slamming most tech vendors that are tightly tied to the industry. The job cuts, speculated about for several days and finally announced Oct. 18, […]

Intel continues to get hit by the stalling PC market, and executives said it could be several months before the industry sees whether it gets a bounce out of the upcoming release of Microsoft’s Window’s 8 operating system. The giant chip maker in the third quarter once again felt the impact of the slowing sales […]

Cisco Systems is expanding the reach of its broad collaboration portfolio, extending some elements farther out into the cloud while enabling businesses to bring other cloud-based solutions on-premises. Cisco’s new and expanded solutions, announced Oct. 16 during the networking giant’s Collaboration Summit in Los Angeles, touch on numerous parts of its collaboration offerings, from TelePresence […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials, who last week said that third-quarter financial numbers were going to be significantly lower than expected, could announce as early as Oct. 18 that the company is cutting between 20 and 30 percent of its workforce, according to several reports. The layoffs would come less than a year after the chip […]