Jeff Burt

Unisys officials in June rolled out a public cloud offering that they said addressed the key concern for businesses looking at the new computing model: security. Now Unisys is looking to offer the benefits of its Secure Cloud Solution to enterprises interested in creating an internal cloud environment. Unisys on Nov. 2 is announcing its […]

Crescendo Networks is rolling out a new application delivery controller as well as an appliance that enables users to receive alerts via Twitter. Crescendo’s AppBeat SC Service Controller gives users multiple ways to monitor their AppBeat application delivery controllers and receive alerts when problems arise around their application delivery and networking environments. Along with Twitter, […]

CA is ramping up its virtualization management offerings with new and enhanced products aimed at easing the tasks of implementing and securing virtualized environments. The new offerings, announced Oct. 26, touch on everything from management and compliance to automation and energy efficiency. “There’s a tremendous amount of focus around how do you manage a virtualized […]

At a time when Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are talking about six and eight cores on a chip, five-year-old Tilera is unveiling plans for a 100-core processor. Tilera, which over the past two years has rolled out chips with 36 and 64 processing cores, on Oct. 26 is announcing its third-generation processor family, which […]

Motorola, Grid Net and GE Energy Services are among a number of partnering companies tapped to develop a WiMax-based smart metering program in Australia. The program, which aims to bring smart meters to almost 700,000 homes and businesses in the state of Victoria, will be the first WiMax-based 4G smart grid solution, according to the […]

The networking space continues to be one of the industry’s most active sectors. On the same day that Juniper Networks announced better-than-expected quarterly finances and CEO Kevin Johnson said the company probably will not join in on the shopping spree of others in the space, Extreme Networks unveiled a reorganization plan that included CEO Mark […]

A group that is looking to unionize IBM’s U.S. workers is using the arrest Oct. 16 of hardware chief Robert Moffat on insider trading charges to ask federal regulators to investigate all company executives. Alliance@IBM, which comprises current and former IBM employees, has been highly critical of the company’s labor practices, including layoff policies, the […]

Hewlett-Packard and Nvidia are providing key technologies to a project aimed at designing an experimental high-performance computing system. The two technology vendors are part of a project being overseen by the Georgia Institute of Technology, which announced Oct. 21 that it had received a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation’s […]

Riverbed Technology is growing the reach of its WAN optimization capabilities, bringing support for Apple Mac users and XenApp from Citrix Systems into its RiOS product. RiOS is the software that runs Riverbed’s Steelhead WAN optimization appliances, and the company rolled out version 6.0 of the software Oct. 19. WAN optimization is used to accelerate […]

Sun Microsystems officials are touting the performance of the Solaris operating system when run on servers powered by Intel’s upcoming “Nehalem EX” processors. In a recent white paper, Sun officials said the tight collaboration with Intel over the past two years has resulted in a Solaris 10 OS that can take advantage of such features […]

ARM, whose dominance as a designer of chips used in smartphones and other small devices is being challenged by Intel, is rolling out a new small, energy-efficient design. The new Cortex-A5 MPCore processor will be cheaper, faster and more energy efficient than its predecessors, all key attributes as ARM officials look to deal with rising […]

Video and other visual applications continue to drive the traffic crossing service provider networks, according to a study by Cisco Systems. In results stemming from Cisco’s VNI (Visual Networking Index) Usage study released Oct. 21, Cisco officials said more than a third of the average global broadband connection supports video, social networking and collaboration applications […]