Jeff Burt

Printer and office supply vendor Ricoh is getting into the highly competitive unified communications market, and is getting help from video collaboration company Vidyo. Ricoh officials earlier this year announced their intention of getting into the UC field, and partnered with Vidyo in February on the video side of the equation. Ricoh on July 29 […]

Dell officials are touting the data center “microsite” they created for Microsoft’s Bing Maps business as an example of what can be done in building a high-performance environment that also is highly efficient. Dell, in conjunction with networking vendor Mellanox Technologies, created the microsite-a modular compartmentalized solution within a data center site created for a […]

The ongoing debt-ceiling debate in Washington, D.C., and the looming threat to the U.S. economy will negatively impact the global IT market at least over the next two years, according to a Forrester Research analyst. In a blog post July 28, Forrester analyst Andrew Bartels said the market research firm on July 26 was prepared […]

Advanced Micro Devices chipped away at rival Intel’s dominance in the global x86 processor space in the second quarter, seeing its market share jump to 19.4 percent on the strength of its Fusion chips, according to market research firm Mercury Research. AMD’s market share jumped from 17.8 percent in the second quarter of 2010 and […]

Dell is looking to enable businesses to better leverage outside air to cool their data centers by ensuring that select servers, storage and networking devices will work at a temperatures of up to 113 degrees for a few hours a day. Dell officials said July 28 that the infrastructure products have been tested and warranted […]

Hewlett-Packard is jumping on the OpenStack cloud computing bandwagon, a day after rival Dell unveiled a cloud computing solution based on the open-source software stack. In a blog post July 27, Emil Sayegh, vice president of cloud services for HP, said the company had joined the OpenStack project, which was kicked off a year ago […]

Hewlett-Packard’s disappointing financial picture over the last two quarters has more to do with the tech giant’s previous two CEOs than current chief Leo Apotheker, according to the chairman of the company’s board of directors. In an interview with Reuters July 26, Ray Lane, who came to the board about the same time Apotheker assumed […]

Tilera, which builds many-core processors to compete with x86-based chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, got a boost from Facebook when engineers from the social media giant said Tilera’s processors out-performed those of its larger rivals. The Facebook engineers released a white paper July 25 at the International Green Computing Conference in Orlando, Fla., […]

Dell is releasing a cloud-computing solution that leverages the open-source OpenStack cloud software platform and its own PowerEdge servers. Dell’s new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering-called the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution and announced July 26-is part of the vendor’s effort to push the adoption of open-source technology for cloud offerings. Along with the use […]

Qualcomm officials are looking to bring gesture recognitions capabilities to their Snapdragon mobile processors through the acquisition of assets from GestureTek. The deal, announced July 25, eventually will allow device makers that use the Snapdragon processors to offer greater gesture recognition capabilities in their products, including smartphones, according to Steve Mollenkopf, executive vice president and […]

Juniper Networks is hiring former longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia to head up its newly formed software division, an indication of the importance Juniper and other networking vendors place on the role of software in the market. Juniper on July 25 announced the decision to make Muglia executive vice president of its Software Solutions Division, […]

Alcatel-Lucent is using a combination of its own technologies and partnerships to make a push into the burgeoning video-collaboration space. The aim of the vendor’s Visual Collaboration suite, announced July 25, is to offer video-conferencing solutions that are simple to use and less costly than current products from larger rivals, while still offering the high-end […]