Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a host of new video collaboration technologies, unveiling its additions in the middle of a week that has seen more than its share of communications announcements from top-tier vendors. Cisco Systems, kicking off its Collaboration 2010 Summit Nov. 15, introduced its efforts to integrate its visual communications technologies with a new […]

Enterasys Networks executives in June unveiled a data center networking strategy that is designed to take on larger rivals like Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Brocade Communications, and started with improvements to its S-Series family of switches. Enterasys on Nov. 15 rolled out the next step in its data center strategy with the Enterasys Data Center […]

Cisco Systems is continuing to aggressively expand its video collaboration offerings, including making all its enteprise endpoints video-enabled. Cisco’s announcement, made Nov. 15 as the company kicked off its Collaboration 2010 Summit in Phoenix, was among a host of news the networking giant is making, with the bulk of them around the rapid growth of […]

Juniper Networks is adding key wireless capabilities to its networking lineup by acquiring Trapeze Networks. Juniper, a growing rival to Cisco Systems in the expanding networking space, announced Nov. 16 that it is buying Trapeze for $152 million from its parent company, Belden. The deal is expected to close before the end of the year. […]

Cisco Systems is using its broad product portfolio and extensive partner ecosystem to offer enteprises a complete desktop virtualization offering of collaboration, data center technologies and high-level connectivity capabilities. Cisco’s VXI (Virtualization Experience Infrastructure), introduced Nov. 15, integrates a wide range of Cisco technologies with desktop virtualization offerings from the likes of VMware, Citrix Systems, […]

Mark Papermaster, who spent 25 years with IBM before a tumultuous year-plus at Apple, is now in charge of the chips that go into Cisco Systems’ key data-center switches. Papermaster reportedly started work with Cisco Nov. 15, where he is vice president of the networking giant’s Silicon Switching Technology Group. In that role, he will […]

SGI is unveiling a hybrid system aimed at the high-performance computing space that leverages the power of CPUs and accelerators such as graphics chips from the likes of Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia. Introduced at the Supercomputer 2010 show in New Orleans Nov. 15, the Prism XL takes advantage of SGI’s new Stix architecture and […]

Cisco Systems saw revenues and profits jump significantly in its fiscal 2011 first quarter. The company saw gains in collaboration, video and the data center, all areas Cisco executives have targeted as important growth markets, and hired another 1,900 people during the three months that ended Oct. 30. However, despite the strong numbers in many […]

New and proposed chips from Advanced Micro Devices and Marvell illustrate the collision course the x86 architecture and ARM-designed processors are on. AMD officials, during the company’s annual analyst day Nov. 9, unveiled a roadmap showing off a host of processors they have planned for the next few years, such as the 20-core “Terramar” chip […]

There is a significant disconnect between IT departments and an increasingly mobile workforce that is bringing a host of new devices into the workplace and looking to leverage social media such as Facebook and Twitter in their jobs, according to Cisco Systems officials. Pointing to the second round of results from its Connected World Report, […]

Polycom officials, in their increasing competition with Cisco Systems in the unified communications space, are relying partners to expand the reach of their technology. Polycom on Nov. 8 announced that Samsung will embed Polycom’s standards-based video applications on to its upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet PC, a move officials said will benefit corporations and consumers alike. […]

IBM is offering an iPhone app designed to enable people to help keep an eye on the waterways around them. IBM Nov. 4 announced the Creek Watch iPhone app, which lets users quickly and easily gather data on the various rivers and streams they pass. They then would be able to take that data-including a […]