Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices has tapped an executive from networking vendor Extreme Networks to head up its server businesses. The announcement June 21 of Suresh Gopalakrishnan as corporate vice president and general manager of AMD€™s server business is the latest move in a series of executive changes CEO Rory Read has made since taking over the […]

Extreme Networks and Hewlett-Packard are looking to make it easier for enterprises and SMBs to deal with the growing numbers of increasingly mobile workers who want to use their own devices for work. Extreme officials on June 18 announced new wireless LAN access points to complement the company€™s Intelligent Mobile Edge (IME) solution announced in […]

Mitel is looking to make collaboration easier and more spontaneous with a high-definition audio and video appliance that company officials said can be set up quickly and is easy to use. Mitel€™s new UC360 Collaboration Point helps fill the gap between the large and expensive room-based immersive video collaboration systems aimed at large groups of […]

Intel’s $375 million purchase of almost 1,700 wireless patents from InterDigital subsidiaries is the latest move by the giant chip maker to expand the capabilities of its upcoming processors, particularly in the mobile arena. Officials with Intel and InterDigital announced the patents deal June 18, which brings money to InterDigital and gives Intel a host […]

Cisco Systems executives are bringing their disparate Web collaboration solutions under the WebEx umbrella, and expanding the capabilities of its enterprise social networking offering formerly known as Cisco Quad. The networking vendor is using the WebEx name to bring together the myriad collaboration offerings it provides, including the Quad social networking solution and Callway, Cisco€™s […]

ShoreTel is bringing its unified communications applications to the mobile world, leveraging the capabilities it gained in acquisitions of Agito Networks in 2010 and M5 Networks earlier this year. ShoreTel executives for the past couple of years have been pushing to extend the company€™s unified communications (UC) solutions into the mobile space and into the […]

The Longer, the Better The more characters that are in a password, the more difficult it is to crack. Most experts suggest passwords of at least eight characters, with recommendations that they be longer. Mix It Up Include everything in the password, from letters and numbers to punctuation and symbols. The greater the variety, the […]

Hewlett-Packard is moving ahead with Intel in developing extremely low-power servers as part of its Project Moonshot initiative, opting initially for the chip maker€™s Atom-based Centerton platform rather than ARM processor technology. Project Moonshot was first introduced in November 2011, with most of the headlines centering on HP€™s partnership with Calxeda to eventually incorporate the […]

IBM€™s Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is now the world€™s fastest system, marking the return of a U.S. supercomputer to the top of the speed charts after three years. According to the latest Top500 list of the world€™s fastest systems, IBM€™s supercomputer, named Sequoia and armed with more than 1.57 million […]

Citrix, which in April bought Podio to expand its cloud-based collaboration capabilities, is now extending the reach of the online collaboration platform. Officials with Citrix Online€™s Podio unit announced June 18 that Podio is now integrated with YouSendIt, adding another file sharing and storage service to its lineup of cloud-based file-sharing apps that it supports. […]

Intel executives are shedding more light on their efforts in the high-performance computing (HPC) space, and their desire to reach exascale computing by 2018, which currently centers on the company€™s newest Xeon chips, an expanded interconnect push and new branding around Intel€™s upcoming many integrated core (MIC) architecture. Intel is two years into its MIC […]

Sequoia Put U.S. Back on Top IBM’s Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hit a performance of 16.32 petaflops, putting the United States back on top of the Top 500 for the first time in almost three years. Sequoia, which is powered by more than 1.5 Power processing cores, also is the […]