Jeff Burt

The Thread Group, one of a number of industry consortiums that has launched over the past several years with plans to drive standardization into the internet of things for connected homes, is now planning to extend its reach into the commercial sector. Thread Group officials this week said they are targeting the commercial buildings and […]

Intel Security two years ago introduced McAfee DXL, a technology designed to enable instant communication between disparate security technologies from multiple vendors, and that is a key part of a larger solutions- and platform-based approach by the company to combating a broad range of cyber-attacks. Now the company is broadening the reach of DXL—Data Exchange […]

Cisco Systems officials are rolling out the latest addition to the company’s Unified Computing System portfolio, a storage-optimized system that they say offers enterprises an alternative to public clouds for storing the massive amounts of data they’re accumulating. The company unveiled the new UCS S-Series offering Nov. 2 at its Cisco Partner Summit in San […]

Chip maker Broadcom is bulking up its capabilities in networking and storage with the $5.9 billion acquisition of networking equipment maker Brocade in a deal that comes two days after speculation about a possible acquisition first surfaced. Executives for both companies announced the deal Nov. 2, saying that bringing Brocade into the fold will give […]

Facebook and several other tech vendors, including Intel, Nokia and SK Telecom, earlier this year launched an effort to bring the open hardware principles of the company’s Open Compute Project to the telecommunications industry. Now the social media giant and the more than 300 members of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) are beginning to unveil […]

Samsung will spend more than $1 billion to boost chip production at its facilities in Austin, Texas, part of a larger strategy to spend almost $24 billion in capital expenditures following the company’s problems with its Galaxy Note7 smartphones. The money for the 19-year-old Texas facility will be used over the next eight months to […]

Networking technology provider Brocade Communications could be the next tech vendor to be sold in what’s becoming a busy season in the industry for acquisitions. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg reported that officials with Brocade—which offers everything from wired and wireless networking products to software-defined network (SDN) and network analytics technologies—are in advanced talks to sell […]

ARM is rolling out two chip cores that address the demand for greater immersive and interactive visual capabilities—including virtual and augmented reality—in their mobile devices. The company, which designs low-power chip architectures and then licenses those designs to such chip makers as Qualcomm and Samsung, on Oct. 31 unveiled the Mali-V61 video processing unit (VPU) […]

BroadSoft is building out its cloud communications portfolio by acquiring VoIP Logic, a company that delivers cloud services based on BroadSoft’s BroadWorks to service providers in the United States. Officials with BroadSoft said that VoIP Logic’s cloud-based wholesale business model will be added to their BroadCloud managed services lineup and will enable service providers to […]

CenturyLink is buying Level 3 Communications for $34 billion, a move that officials with both companies said will create a significantly larger player in the global telecommunications space. Bringing Level 3 into the fold will enable CenturyLink to expand its fiber optics and data services capabilities to enterprises and extend its reach with small businesses […]