Jeff Burt

Nokia, with its acquisitions of Alcatel-Lucent and Whithings completed, is expanding its efforts in the Internet of things with a new platform that officials say can handle all management aspects for more than 80,000 models of devices. According to Nokia officials, the company’s new Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things (IMPACT), which was announced […]

VMware is adding to its arsenal of software-defined infrastructure capabilities with the planned acquisition of Arkin Net, whose software makes it easier for enterprises to manage their environments across domains of both physical and virtual compute, networking and storage resources. VMware officials on June 13 announced the plan to acquire Arkin Net, which is one […]

Logitech officials a year ago launched the company’s partner program as part of a larger effort to grow its capabilities in the competitive video collaboration space. Now the vendor this month announced 15 new members to the program, including Intel, FreeConferenceCall.com and Fuze. The new members add to the original partners that joined the Logitech […]

Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is fast becoming a key voice in the effort by some in the Republican Party to push back against presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. Whitman, a GOP mega-donor and a player in national politics for the party, reportedly compared Trump to Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini […]

Intel reportedly may find itself in Apple’s upcoming iPhone, which would be a significant win for a company that has found itself mostly on the outside looking in on the mobile device market. Reports have been circulating for a couple of years that Apple was looking at Intel as a second modem supplier to Qualcomm, […]

Avaya is putting a focus on the issue of customer experience with the introduction of Oceana, which is designed to help enterprises more easily include customer needs and desires in their business plans. Announced this week at the International Avaya Users Group (IAUG) Engage conference, Oceana is a customer engagement platform that makes it easier […]

RingCentral officials are turning their attention to the conference room. The company, which previously focused its cloud-based communications solutions on endpoints such as mobile devices and desktops, now is making the move into the conference room via an application to deploy and manage room-based collaboration sessions. The vendor this week released RingCentral Rooms, a visual […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will begin bundling Docker’s container technology in its various server portfolios as part of a broad partnership between the two companies. At the tech vendor’s Discover 2016 show this week in Las Vegas, HPE officials unveiled the work the company will do with Docker, from engineering and services to sales, marketing and […]

An internal technology that was developed by Intel engineers to help them better collaborate hit the market last year, and it’s putting the chip maker into an unusual market for it. Intel introduced the Unite technology a year ago during the Computex 2015 show, and now the company is adding a new range of features […]

Intel Launches Latest High-End Xeon E7 Chips, and Server OEMs Sign On Intel has unveiled the new Intel Xeon E7 “Broadwell-EX” server processor family, offering more capacity and higher performance than its predecessors. Feeling the Power According to Intel officials, an eight-socket Xeon E7-8890 v4 delivers up to 40 percent better performance than an IBM […]