Jeff Burt

Talari Networks is launching a partner program designed to encourage other tech vendors to build products for the company’s software-defined WAN portfolio and to help drive customer adoption. Talari officials on May 26 unveiled the Talari Unite Technology Alliance program, which will provide tech partners with such resources as free virtual appliance and software licenses, […]

Since buying Meraki almost four years ago, Cisco Systems officials have expanded the reach of the technology beyond its cloud-based WiFi management roots. The giant networking vendor has grown the reach of Meraki’s software to include the ability to manage networks, IT infrastructure, security systems and mobile devices using the same cloud-based solutions and single-pane-of-glass […]

Samsung Electronics is working with SK Telecom to create what officials with both companies say will be the first nationwide commercial network dedicated to the Internet of things and using the LoRaWAN networking standard. The network will launch in the South Korean of Daegu in June and will become available throughout the country sometime in […]

Viptela has raised another $75 million in funding, the latest proof point of the expected rapid growth of the burgeoning software-defined WAN space. Officials with Viptela, one of almost two-dozen vendors in the market, announced May 25 that the latest round of funding was led by Redline Capital, with help from new investor Northgate Capital […]

Dell is broadening its portfolio of Wyse thin clients and software to bring greater performance, security and collaboration capabilities to virtual desktop environments. The announcements made May 24 come a week after Dell’s Cloud Client Computing group unveiled two new security offerings designed to provide advanced threat prevention (ATP) from endpoints to the data center […]

Cray officials are using the company’s deep expertise in supercomputing to help enterprises address the challenges of big data analytics. The systems vendor on May 24 announced the Urika-GX, a supercomputing system that comes preloaded with open enterprise analytics software like Hortonworks Data Platform, which includes Hadoop and Apache Spark, and the OpenStack management suite. […]

Lenovo and Nutanix are looking to bring the benefits of hyperconverged infrastructures to smaller businesses. The companies are expanding on a partnership started last year to unveil products that offer the efficiencies and ease of use and acquisition of the tightly integrated infrastructures while also addressing the particular needs of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) […]

Mitel’s plan to buy video conferencing vendor Polycom for $1.96 billion just got a little more complicated. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) May 23, Polycom officials said the company has received a revised offer from an unnamed private equity firm that could be “superior” to Mitel’s bid. In the Form […]

Longtime partners Mobileye and STMicroelectronics are working on the next generation of Mobileye’s chip that officials with both companies say will be used as the central processor for self-driving cars, a move that will increase their competition with the likes of Nvidia and NXP Semiconductors in the fast-growing market. The same week that NXP unveiled […]

IBM, ARM and Advanced Micro Devices are among the tech vendors teaming up to create a single data center interconnect fabric that will enable chips and accelerators from different vendors to communicate without the need for complex programming. The new Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX) will make servers more efficient and better able to […]