Jeff Burt

NEC and its software subsidiary, Netcracker Technology, are rolling out platforms and services that officials with the companies said will help service providers more easily adopt and deploy network virtualization technologies. The two vendors on May 9 unveiled their Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice (AVP) offering, which includes collaboration and management software, applications to help […]

When Ed Meyercord took over as president and CEO of Extreme Networks last year, he inherited a company with its share of challenges. The networking vendor two weeks earlier had once again missed its projected quarterly financial numbers; revenue had declined 16 percent year over year; Extreme lost $23.5 million; and it was seeing weakness […]

Brian Krzanich has been a huge proponent of drone technology during his three-year tenure as Intel’s CEO. During that time, Krzanich has appeared on stage at a number of shows with drones—powered by Intel chips and featuring the company’s RealSense 3D camera technology—buzzing around him, invested in drone companies (Yuneec, PrecisionHawk and Airware), bought a […]

Qualcomm has patched a security flaw that put Android smartphones powered by the chip maker’s products at risk of data theft, but millions of the devices could remain at risk. Security researchers with Mandiant’s Red Team discovered the vulnerability earlier this year, and Qualcomm developed a fix for it and sent it to device makers […]

Huawei Technologies is the latest tech vendor to join the push for cloud-based network management offerings to make it easier to plan, deploy, monitor and scale both wired and wireless networks. At the Interop 2016 show in Las Vegas, Huawei officials said the company’s Cloud Managed Network platform is now available for testing by managed […]

Lenovo, the world’s largest PC vendor and a significant player in the server space, reportedly is creating a $500 million fund to invest in startups in such emerging markets as artificial intelligence, robotics and cloud computing. Citing statements May 4 by He Zhiqiang, a senior vice president with the Chinese company, Reuters reported that the […]

IoT to Have Growing Impact on Businesses, Industries, Survey Finds A QuinStreet Enterprise survey shows that many business professionals believe IoT will play a significant role in their industries over the next five years. IoT Will Be Important to Businesses Forty-nine percent of respondents said the IoT will be critical or important to their companies’ […]

Extreme Networks is rolling out a cloud-based management platform that officials say enables users to more quickly adapt to changing application needs and to manage both network switches and wireless access points. The company’s ExtremeCloud offering delivers zero-touch provisioning and simple management capabilities that is designed to enable network administrators to address not only the […]

Viptela officials want to bring SD-WAN capabilities that larger enterprises are beginning to embrace to smaller businesses, home offices and other sites. At the Interop 2016 show in Las Vegas May 4, Vitelpa unveiled the vEdge-100, a compact device for companies that don’t need more than 100M bps of throughput and want to support such […]

After almost two years of litigation, Nvidia and Samsung have settled their legal dispute over patents in the United States. The two companies announced earlier this week that all the pending litigation in U.S. courts, with the U.S. Patent Office and with the International Trade Commission (ITC) has ended. The settlement comes almost three months […]

Carly Fiorina’s job as CEO of Hewlett-Packard lasted almost six years before the company’s board of directors showed her the door in 2005. Her position as Sen. Ted Cruz’s vice presidential pick lasted about a week. Cruz, the conservative Republican firebrand from Texas, on April 27 introduced Fiorina as his running mate in what many […]

Unify is aggressively expanding its channel efforts as it looks to gain ground in the unified communications space. At the company’s annual partner conference this week, Unify officials announced efforts to make the process of onboarding new partners easier and to enable those companies to start selling Unify products more quickly. In addition, the company […]