Jeff Burt

Apple devices€”from iPhones to iPads to Macs€”are becoming more prominent in enterprises as employees bring them to work, fueling the burgeoning trend of the consumerization of IT. And that could cause security problems for businesses, according to researchers at security software maker Zscaler. The recent malware attacks over the past few weeks on Macs running […]

Avaya is enhancing its Identity Engines solution with new features designed to offer enterprises greater control and security of their networks while they address the growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend. The new capabilities in Identity Engines 8.0 are designed to make it easier for businesses to offer employees and guests secure access to corporate networks with […]

More than a third of IT professionals see having a cloud-ready network as the key infrastructure piece needed to begin migrating applications to the cloud, but almost 40 percent say they would rather have root canal or do their own taxes before dealing with the network challenges associated with private or public cloud deployments. The […]

Cisco Systems had a relatively strong third quarter, but most of the positives are being eclipsed by weak projections for the current financial period and worries about what those projections say about IT spending and the global economy. In numbers announced May 9, Cisco executives said the company saw sales grow 7 percent over the […]

NEW ORLEANS €” Though a relatively nascent market at 2 years old, tablets already are having a significant impact in the wireless space, from the amount of traffic they’re driving across carrier networks to the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend that is putting pressure of corporate IT staffs. No tablets have been more dominant than Apple€™s wildly […]

Mitel is unveiling an offering that will enable businesses to deploy a virtualized unified communications service in a private or hybrid cloud setting that is hosted by Mitel€™s service provider division, Mitel NetSolutions. Mitel€™s AnyWare IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) will let IT departments host Mitel€™s virtualized unified communications and collaboration (UCC) software in a virtual private data […]

Cisco CEO John Chambers, who last month called Huawei Technologies a more significant networking competitor than Hewlett-Packard, is saying that his company is in a good position to not only defend its massive footprint in the United States, but also to challenge Huawei in its native China. Speaking on a conference call with analyst and […]

Calxeda is cranking up the burgeoning competition between Intel and ARM Holdings with a demonstration this week of an ARM-based server running a Linux operating system. Calxeda, which last fall announced a partnership with Hewlett-Packard to develop very low-power systems running on ARM-based processors, on May 7 showed off the prototype server powered by its […]

NEW ORLEANS €” The United States is back in the leadership spot in the highly competitive wireless market, thanks in large part to the billions of dollars that the industry has poured into expanding wireless networks across the country, according to the heads of the top four largest carriers. However, that standing is not guaranteed, […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to make the network faster, more flexible. At the Interop 2012 show in Las Vegas, HP officials unveiled solutions designed to significantly speed up the time it takes to deploy cloud applications across both wired and wireless networks, a move that is particularly important in an era when employees are using their […]

Dell officials are unveiling a low-power microserver that incorporates upcoming Xeon processors based on Intel€™s new Ivy Bridge architecture. The company on May 8 said that several customers, including Morphlabs and Vibrant Media, already are using the PowerEdge C5220 microserver for a variety of Web 2.0 and cloud-based workloads, the sweet spot for the small […]

BlackBerry and NFC A BlackBerry Bold from Research In Motion lies atop a sheet of near-field communication (NFC) tags. The smartphone can read the information from the tags, in this case a telephone number. Samsung Galaxy S III The follow-on to the company’s highly successful Galaxy S II launched earlier this month in London, and […]