Jeff Burt

The next version of the Bluetooth wireless connectivity standard will be faster, have an increased range and feature greater broadcast messaging capacity, all of which will be a boon to the Internet of things. Officials with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) said Bluetooth 5, which will come later this year or in early 2017 […]

Ericsson officials want to begin to ease the eventual migration to 5G networking even though standards for the next-generation broadband technology aren’t expected until 2020. The company on June 16 introduced its 5G Plug-Ins, which are software that officials say are designed to bring 5G technology concepts—such as Massive MIMO (multiple input/multiple output), which combines […]

Avaya is making its network operating system available on third-party industry-standard hardware, making the company the latest vendor in the expanding open networking space. The company is aiming the move at managed service providers, cloud service providers, systems integrators and data center hosting companies, enabling them the put their brand on Avaya’s network OS and […]

Chip maker Cavium is bolstering its capabilities in the data center, cloud and storage spaces with its planned acquisition of networking equipment maker QLogic, a move that will expand its customer base and bring it into greater competition with such vendors as Intel and Broadcom. Officials with Cavium, which has garnered a lot of attention […]

NEW YORK—Cisco Systems has aggressively expanded its IT solutions capabilities over the past several years, building on its expertise in network switches and routers to extend its reach into all parts of the data center. The tech vendor has rolled out products including the Unified Computing System (UCS) for IT infrastructure and the Application Centric […]

From the time Dell executives announced in October 2015 the company’s $67 billion bid to buy storage vendor EMC, a lot of attention was paid to how the deal would impact the future of VMware, the key company in EMC’s federated business model. There was worry that Dell would throttle VMware’s independence or raid its […]

Cisco Systems is throwing $10 million behind a new effort to increase the number of skilled cyber-security experts in the market. The giant networking vendor is introducing a $10 million scholarship program, while at the same time enhancing its security certification portfolio, all with the goal of bringing more talent into the cyber-security pool and […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials continue to give consumer PC users and gamers a look at what they can expect with the company’s upcoming graphics cards based on its new Polaris architecture. At the Computex 2016 show last month, the vendor previewed the Radeon RX 480 GPU, a high-end chip that officials said will deliver premium […]

Brocade is teaming with Harris Corp. in a strategic partnership that will lead to cyber-security products designed to enable organizations to protect key assets. The solutions developed by the two companies will include Harris’ cyber-security technologies integrated with Brocade software-defined networking (SDN) products. The vendors announced the alliance June 14 at the Federal Forum 2016 […]

Cisco Systems and Apple officials are beginning to build out the strategy they outlined almost a year ago when the two companies announced a partnership designed to drive Apple mobile devices deeper into the enterprise. At Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) this week, company officials laid out new features of the company’s upcoming iOS 10 […]

Nokia, with its acquisitions of Alcatel-Lucent and Whithings completed, is expanding its efforts in the Internet of things with a new platform that officials say can handle all management aspects for more than 80,000 models of devices. According to Nokia officials, the company’s new Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things (IMPACT), which was announced […]

VMware is adding to its arsenal of software-defined infrastructure capabilities with the planned acquisition of Arkin Net, whose software makes it easier for enterprises to manage their environments across domains of both physical and virtual compute, networking and storage resources. VMware officials on June 13 announced the plan to acquire Arkin Net, which is one […]