Jeff Burt

Intel executives on the last day in January lauded SeaMicro for its ability to develop low-power microservers that could leverage not only the chip maker€™s energy-efficient Atom chips, but also its more powerful Xeon processors. “It’s not an easy thing to go and do,” Jason Waxman, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center […]

Verisign researchers, looking at what happened in the world of security in 2011 to get a better feel for what to expect this year, are warning against cyber-attackers beginning to offer customers more services and leveraging the Zeus Trojan as an open-source kit. But it€™s not all bad. The Verisign researchers, in a report released […]

The Vatican Website apparently is the latest victim of the hacker group Anonymous, reportedly taken down March 7 in protest of everything from the Catholic Church’s doctrine and tenets to the sexual abuse of children by priests. The Vatican’s Website, at www.vatican.va, was down for a while March 7, though appeared to be back up […]

A day after the arrests of several alleged members of the hacker group LulzSec, others claiming to be members of the hacker collective Anonymous took over the home page of Panda Security’s PandaLabs Website in retaliation. They also took aim at Hector Xavier Monsegur, a New York City resident and alleged leader of the LulzSec […]

Extreme Networks is addressing the growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend with an initiative that includes new Ethernet switches, a new access point and identity management capabilities that touch both wired and wireless networks. Extreme€™s Intelligent Mobile Edge solution, introduced March 6, is designed to help IT administrators who find themselves in the position of having to […]

Several top members of the hacking group LulzSec, which during a 50-day spree last year targeted various U.S and British government sites and companies such as Sony with cyber-attacks, are now under arrest or have been charged following a sweep by law enforcement agencies March 6 in the United States and Europe. The five suspects […]

Advanced Micro Devices has shed the last stakes it had in Globalfoundries, the chip fabrication company that was created when AMD spun off its manufacturing business in 2009. The move, announced March 4, means that while AMD will continue to contract with Globalfoundries for manufacturing some of its chips, it can now more fully engage […]

Brocade is looking to make deploying and managing campus networks easier through its new Effortless Network initiative, which will be based on the company€™s upcoming HyperEdge technology. Brocade officials on March 6 also introduced two new campus LAN switches, filling out what the company can offer businesses with campus networks. The goal of the Effortless […]

Intel executives unveiled their much-anticipated family of Xeon E5-2600 processors for servers designed to handle the demands brought on by the rapid growth of such technologies as virtualization and cloud computing in the data center. At a Webcast event in San Francisco March 6, Dianne Bryant, vice president and general manager of Intel€™s Datacenter and […]

Email spam continues to be a major problem for many U.S. businesses, with almost half saying that they€™ve experienced data breaches due to employees clicking on malicious links and 70 percent saying that their anti-spam solutions are marginally effective at best, according to a survey released March 1 by security software company GFI Software. In […]

Advanced Micro Devices executives are laying out a roadmap for future chips that they say will be fundamentally different from larger rival Intel and leverage the work they’ve done integrating the graphics and CPUs onto a single piece of silicon. At the company’s annual Financial Analyst Day Feb. 2 in Sunnyvale, Calif., CEO Rory Read […]

ShoreTel continues to grow its unified communications capabilities through acquisition, announcing Feb. 1 its intention to buy M5 Networks for $146 million, a move that will enable ShoreTel to offer both cloud-based and on-premise solutions. M5 Networks, a 12-year-old company headquartered in New York City, offers a suite of hosted unified communications (UC) products, including […]