Jeff Burt

Viptela wants to make it easier for businesses to monitor their SD-WAN environments. The company is integrating SevOne’s Digital Infrastructure Management Platform with Viptela’s software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) offering, which will enable data center and network operators to get more visibility into the health of their networks. They will be able to use the SevOne dashboard […]

Vidyo is continuing to rack up partnerships as officials look to expand the reach of the company’s software-based video collaboration technology, with the most recent alliance coming with conferencing service provider West. The two companies announced March 23 that Vidyo’s VidyoWorks platform has been integrated into West’s InterCall unified communications (UC) product portfolio as well […]

Andy Grove Helped Make Intel the Dominant Chip Maker It Is Today Grove played a central role in the evolution of Intel, from getting the company to manufacture PC chips to helping forge the company’s close ties to Microsoft. First Stop: Fairchild After receiving his Ph.D., Grove was hired at Fairchild, where he eventually became […]

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich last year said that with 14-nanometer chips, the company was moving away from its “tick-tock” cadence for manufacturing processors by adding a third 14nm chip to its lineup, pushing back by a year the introduction of its first 10nm processor. Now the world’s largest chip maker seems to be formalizing the […]

Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins continues to remake the company less than a year after taking the reins from longtime chief executive John Chambers, most recently by reorganizing the vendors huge engineering unit. The 25,000-person engineering group will now be divided among four new areas that Robbins and other Cisco executives see as the most […]

In 1968, Intel founders Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce hired their first employee, a 32-year-old Hungarian immigrant who a decade earlier had escaped a homeland ravaged by the effects of World War II and the ensuing Communist rule to find a place for himself in the United States. The hiring of Andy Grove would help […]

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is rolling out a network-as-a-service offering that is designed to drive down costs and increase flexibility by enabling businesses to pay only for the networking resources that they use. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s (ALE) Network on Demand service will be run through the company’s broad lineup of channel partners and resellers, and will encompass such […]

A recent survey by mobile security technology vendor BullGuard highlighted not only how popular the Internet of things is becoming, but the security issues it raises. The survey of more than 6,000 residents in the UK found a disconnect between the growing number of people interested in buying Internet of things (IoT) devices and their […]

JR Rivers, who helped found Cumulus Networks six years ago, is stepping aside as CEO of the company to become Cumulus’ CTO. Rivers will be replaced as CEO by Josh Leslie, an 18-year veteran of the IT industry who has been with Cumulus for less than a year after stints with such companies as VMware, […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cisco Systems are continuing their tight competition in the cloud infrastructure market, according to analysts at Synergy Research Group. In a report out March 21, the market research firm said Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) still held a small lead over Cisco in the fourth quarter of 2015, but that Cisco narrowed […]

Security continues to be the top concern among businesses looking at cloud communications, with quality of service coming in second, according to a recent survey by 8×8 officials. 8×8, a unified communications-as-a-service (UCaas) provider, surveyed about 200 attendees—more than half were IT decision makers, while others included systems integrators, end users and equipment manufacturers—at the […]

One of the more interesting rivalries in the data storage industry took another turn this week when market leader EMC got a partial victory against fast-growing Pure Storage in a patent infringement lawsuit filed more than two years ago. A federal court jury found March 15 that Pure Storage violated an EMC patent related to […]