Jeff Burt

With Intel looking to expand its reach beyond its core PC and server businesses, officials at the giant chip maker are becoming less concerned about competition from traditional rival Advanced Micro Devices. Instead, they’re focusing more on ARM Holdings, whose chip designs are found in large numbers of mobile handheld devices-including smartphones-a business that Intel […]

Skype reportedly will be rolling out a new function that will let up to five people participate in a video call at the same time, a capability that will let it counter the video conferencing capabilities of such vendors as Cisco Systems and Polycom. In an interview with the Associated Press, Neil Stevens, general manager […]

Avaya is working with IBM to help improve communications capabilities in the health care field. Avaya officials announced May 4 that the company is integrating real-time, intelligent communications into health care applications through its own ACE (Agile Communication Environment) and IBM’s Health Integration Framework. Using Avaya’s ACE, which is an SOA (service-oriented architecture)-based application, health […]

Appro International and Super Micro Computer, or Supermicro, are unveiling new and enhanced servers that incorporate Nvidia’s Tesla 20 series graphics technology. These servers are the latest to bring traditional CPUs from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices together with GPU technologies to offer businesses and HPC (high-performance computing) environments greater compute density and energy efficiency. […]

Intel is investing $15 million in three technology companies whose businesses touch on health care, real estate and infrastructure services. Intel Capital, the investment arm of the giant chip maker, announced May 3 that it is investing in Caring.com, SmartZip Analytics and Virtustream. Caring.com is designed to help users navigate the issues surrounding care for […]

For more than four decades, Moore’s Law has held true, thanks in large part to Intel first continuing to crank up the speed of its processors, and more recently by rapidly growing the number of processing cores on a single chip. However, according to Bill Dally, Moore’s Law has reached its limit on traditional CPUs […]

The PC microprocessor business continues to show signs that it’s coming out of the slump caused by the worldwide recession, according to research firm IDC. Intel continued to rule the market, increasing its market share by .5 percent over rival Advanced Micro Devices, according to IDC numbers released April 29. Overall, chip unit shipments showed […]

Crescendo Networks is looking to enable data center administrators to scale their application delivery capabilities in an on-demand fashion, making it easier and more cost-efficient to handle the growing Web traffic. At the Interop show in Las Vegas, Crescendo officials on April 27 unveiled their new HyperScale technology, which will be an option on all […]

IT departments battered by the global recession last year are increasingly adopting a “virtualize first” mentality, according to research firm IDC. In a report April 28, IDC analysts said that 18.2 percent of all servers shipped in the fourth quarter of 2009 were virtualized, an increase from 15.2 percent in the same period in 2008. […]

Cisco Systems, Verizon Business and Novell are unveiling offerings designed to make cloud computing more secure. Cisco on April 28 announced security services based around e-mail and the Internet that are part of the company’s cloud protection push and its Secure Borderless Network architecture, which aims to give users secure access to their corporate resources […]

The promise of 40 Gigabit Ethernet networks was a key topic of discussion at the Interop 2010 show in Las Vegas, which wraps up April 29. Extreme Networks rolled out the VIM3-40G4X for its stackable switches. The uplink adds four 40GbE connections to its Summit X650 top-of-rack switches, and also is compatible with the Summit […]

LTE, or Long Term Evolution, is quickly gaining momentum as the industry moves toward 4G mobile networks, and spending on LTE equipment will outpace spending on WiMax by the end of 2011, according to research company IDC. In a report issued April 26, IDC analysts said more than 100 mobile operators-including nine of the top […]