Jeff Burt

The ongoing consumerization of IT€”including the burgeoning bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend€”is continuing to drive greater worker productivity and loyalty, but security remains a concern, according to a report from Dell and Intel. The survey, released July 25, reiterates the challenges presented to enterprises as employees become increasingly mobile and more likely to want to use their […]

Juniper Networks and Riverbed Technology are expanding their capabilities in WAN optimization and mobility in a partnership that promises to add to what is becoming a difficult week for rival Cisco Systems. Officials with both Juniper and Riverbed said the partnership, announced July 24, will improve the delivery of applications in both traditional data center […]

Growing demand for iPhones, iPads and other products is driving Apple to rapidly grow its dominance as the world€™s top semiconductor purchaser, enabling it to offer products at a better price and with greater reliability than its rivals. According to analysts at market research firm IHS iSuppli, Apple is not only spending more than anyone […]

Web exploit kits are getting more complex and harder to detect, and the cyber-criminals developing such toolkits as Blackhole and Phoenix are themselves becoming more sophisticated as they leverage a more traditional software business model, according to a security expert from Hewlett-Packard. In addition, these attackers are increasingly targeting Java in their efforts, finding that […]

Cisco Systems, less than a year after cutting 6,500 jobs in a push to save $1 billion in expenses, is eliminating another 1,300 positions as it looks to deal with the uncertain global economy and weak corporate IT spending. The networking giant announced the decision to reduce headcount by another 2 percent late July 23, […]

Cisco Systems€™ $5 billion purchase of video software developer NDS Group was approved by the European Commission, clearing the way for the networking company€™s largest acquisition since it bought telepresence vendor Tandberg in 2010 for $3.3 billion. The EC, the antitrust arm of the European Union, said in a statement issued July 24 that the […]

Vidyo, among the fastest-growing vendors in a highly competitive video conferencing market that includes the likes of Cisco Systems and Polycom, is rolling out a free service designed to address the gnarly issue of multi-vendor interoperability and€”hopefully€”add more fuel to Vidyo€™s rapid ascension. Vidyo is unveiling its VidyoWay video conferencing service, a free cloud-based interconnectivity […]

The iPhone is the cornerstone of Apple€™s juggernaut, by some accounts bringing in as much as 50 percent of the company€™s revenues on a quarterly basis. Given that, when iPhone sales taper off a bit, the ripple effect throughout the company€™s financial numbers can be significant. That happened last year, when anticipation over the upcoming […]

ARM took a key step in its growing competition with Intel by teaming up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to create low-power chips for mobile devices and servers that leverage 3D transistor technologies similar to Intel€™s Tri-Gate architecture. ARM and TSMC on July 23 announced an extension of their partnership that will include creating 64-bit ARM-designed […]

Riverbed Technology is adding an inbound quality-of-service (QoS) feature into the software that runs on the company€™s Steelhead WAN optimization appliances, a move that is needed as trends like video and cloud computing increase the amount of network traffic coming in from outside the enterprise. According to Riverbed officials, businesses no longer are only dealing […]

Google is buying software maker Sparrow to help build up its email capabilities. How the search giant will leverage its new technologies is unclear. Officials with the small company, which develops its namesake third-party email clients for Apple€™s Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, announced July 20 that Sparrow was being bought by Google, […]

Microsoft is continuing to see strength in its enterprise business, as illustrated by the solid results turned in by its Server and Tools division during the its fiscal fourth quarter. However, the software giant’s focus will continue to be on emerging trends in the enterprise, such as mobile, cloud and collaboration, as it looks to […]