Jeff Burt

Nvidia officials are continuing to roll out new offerings in what is becoming a high-profile month of May for the graphics technology vendor. The company earlier this month introduced its GeForce GTX 1080, a powerful and highly efficient GPU based on Nvidia’s new Pascal architecture for tasks such as gaming and virtual reality (VR), which […]

IBM officials for more than a year have turned to Nvidia’s GPU accelerators to boost the system in its cloud computing environment. The massive tech vendor last year brought Nvidia’s Tesla K80 and Tesla K10 GPUs into the IBM Cloud to make it easier and faster to run such complex high-performance computing (HPC) workloads as […]

Mitel’s $1.96 billion bid for video conferencing vendor Polycom has received the approval of regulators in the United States, with the Federal Trade Commission deciding to terminate the waiting period under an antitrust act. The early termination of the waiting period in the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act removed an obstacle to the proposed merger, which […]

8×8, Vonage Top IHS’ List of Top UCaaS Providers in North America Unified communications as a service is taking hold in the workplace as a more cost-efficient and feature-rich alternative to the traditional PBX. Three Times a Charm for 8×8 8×8 has topped IHS’ list for three years in a row, and for three reasons, […]

Cisco Systems officials are seeing the benefits of their yearslong effort to expand the company’s business beyond core network switches and routers. The company May 18 reported its switch and router units continued to see revenue declines in its most recent financial quarter, a situation that several years ago would have significantly dragged down Cisco’s […]

ARM is expanding its ambitions in such areas as connected cars, robotics and the Internet of things with the $350 million acquisition of Apical, a small UK company that develops embedded computer vision products. Apical’s technology enables systems to interpret their surroundings based on images and act accordingly based on that information, an important capability […]

The newly minted Hitachi Insight Group is launching a new smart city offering designed to make data from public and private providers more easily accessible to city leaders, businesses and residents in order to give them the tools to make their communities more sustainable and prosperous. Company officials on May 18 introduced the City Data […]

Cisco Systems wants to make sure network administrators are prepared to handle the changes being brought about by such trends as the digitization of businesses, the cloud and the Internet of things. The world’s top networking vendor is updating its CCNA Routing and Switching certification for associate-level network engineers to address the fundamentals of programmable […]

Broadcom continues to remake itself months after being acquired by Avago Technologies. Since the $37 billion deal closed in February, Broadcom has since been renamed Broadcom Ltd. and officials have begun reshaping the company. Broadcom is selling off its Internet of things (IoT) portfolio and its wireless infrastructure backhaul business while continuing to expand its […]

GigaSpaces Technologies and Metaswitch are launching an on-demand lab to help network engineers become better informed about deploying and managing network-functions virtualization environments. The companies want to give users a cheaper and easier way to learn about network-functions virtualization (NFV) by offering on-demand access to a fully configured lab. GigaSpaces officials first announced the NFV […]

MetTel, which offers managed communications services, is making the move into the fast-growing software-defined WAN space with a solution aimed at enterprise and midmarket customers. Company officials unveiled the new offering May 17, saying that software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is becoming one of the top communications services requested, especially among organizations in the retail, health care, […]

Corsa Technology wants to bring software-defined networking to the edge of the network. The company this month introduced the DP2000 series switching and routing platform that officials said delivers 10G and 100G networking, on-demand services and network tuning and is aimed at metro networks and the WAN. Through the new open and programmable platform, network […]