Jeff Burt

Ex-high tech CEOs Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, running primarily on their records at Hewlett-Packard and eBay, respectively, are a step closer to statewide office after winning GOP nominations in California June 8. Fiorina, who received endorsements from the likes of former Intel CEO Craig Barrett and ex-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin but was rejected by […]

Brocade entered into the converged data center fray against Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks June 9 with the introduction of Brocade One, a strategy designed to bring data center operations onto the network. The initiative is designed to cut costs and simplify data center operations, and includes a host of products and services that include […]

Cisco Systems is putting support for its interoperability protocol into its Tandberg TelePresence Server, the first step in its push to enable the telepresence products from Cisco and other vendors to work together. The TIP announcement was one of several Cisco made June 8 at the InfoComm 2010 show in Las Vegas. Cisco introduced TIP […]

Vidyo officials want to make it easier and cheaper for businesses to run multipoint video conferencing sessions. To that end, the company is offering free multipoint conferencing for room systems to VidyoConferencing customers, saving businesses the cost of having to invest in new video conferencing architecture when they want to expand the capability to other […]

Cisco Systems officials are getting ready to launch a collaboration platform that brings together social networking capabilities and enterprise-level applications and other features. Cisco officials are expected to further detail their Quad platform at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, which runs June 14-17. The company is looking to enable a businesses to use the […]

Polycom officials are continuing to position themselves as a lower-cost video conferencing alternative to Cisco Systems, announcing June 7 a telepresence solution that offers the same capabilities while using half the network bandwidth. Polycom announced its OTX (Open Telepresence Experience) 300, which brings full video collaboration capabilities-including 1080p video-using half the bandwidth of comparable systems […]

Citrix Online is the last of the major online collaboration vendors to not include video capabilities in its offerings. That could change over the next few quarters. The six-year-old company is working to bring video features to its portfolio of online collaboration offerings, including GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and GoToTraining, according to Bernardo de Albergaria, vice president […]

Michael Dell has revealed that at one time considered taking his namesake company private, though in the same interview he reiterated that he is committed to continuing to run the world’s third largest PC vendor. Dell made his comment June 3 during a Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. conference in New York. Sanford Bernstein analyst […]

Market research company Gartner is upping its revenue projections for the semiconductor industry based on strong demand for PCs, mobile phones and other consumer devices. In a report June 3, Gartner analysts said worldwide semiconductor revenue for 2010 should reach $290 billion, approximately a 27.1 percent increase over 2009, when revenues hit $228 billion. In […]

Intel engineers are taking what they learned with the now-shelved “Larrabee” graphics chip project and with their multicore single-chip cloud computing strategy to create a co-processor architecture aimed at the high-performance computing market. At the International Supercomputing 2010 show May 31, Intel officials introduced “Knights Corner,” the foundation for what they called the MIC (“Many […]

SGI has created a computing platform that takes advantage of graphics processing capabilities to get a petaflop of compute power into a single cabinet. SGI announced the hybrid computing platform June 1 at the International Supercomputing 2010 show in Hamburg, Germany. Like a growing number of server makers, SGI is taking advantage of the capabilities […]

Cisco Systems is predicting that global Internet traffic will more than quadruple by 2014, driven in large part by increases in video traffic and by people using the Web to communicate online. In its annual Visual Networking Index released June 2, Cisco said Internet traffic will grow to 767 exabytes by 2014. The growth will […]