Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to grow an already strong position in an emerging virtual reality market that is quickly becoming crowded. At the 2016 Game Developer Conference March 14, AMD officials outlined the multiple paths the chip maker is taking in the virtual reality (VR) market and new efforts that are underway. Getting the […]

Dominic Orr for much of last week had to battle a nasty head cold, but it didn’t appear to slow him down. Throughout Aruba Networks’ three-day Atmosphere 2016 user conference in Las Vegas, Orr—the company’s president—was seemingly everywhere, pacing the stage in front of 2,500 attendees during his keynote address, standing with Hewlett Packard Enterprise […]

The contracting global PC market is expected to stabilize after this year, but IDC analysts are warning that the range of issues facing the space will keep PC makers from being able to significantly boost the volume of shipments after four years of declines. Competing products—such as detachable tablets and phablets—as well as continuing worldwide […]

Qualcomm officials want to make it easier for developers to create virtual reality games and applications using the chip maker’s Snapdragon platforms. The company starting in the second quarter will offer a VR software development kit (SDK) that will give programmers the tools they need to more quickly build VR software with the Snapdragon 820 […]

Proponents for use of ARM-based chips in data center servers are hoping moves made this week will accelerate the adoption of such systems. At an event it sponsored this week, Linaro rolled out a cloud that programmers can use to more easily design, develop and test applications built for platforms based on the 64-bit ARMv-8 […]

Microsoft wants to expand the reach of its video conferencing technology, and it’s teaming up with long-time partner Polycom and Logitech to make it happen. At the Enterprise Connect 2016 show this week, Microsoft officials announced a couple of initiatives designed to bring the software vendor’s Skype Meeting technology to the 97 percent of meeting […]

Dell Survey Uncovers Challenges to Providing UC to Remote Workers More and more businesses are looking to provide a unified communications experience to remote workers, but there are hurdles to overcome. While More Workers Are on the Move … More employees are working remotely than before, and the trend is only going up. Eighty-three percent […]

Hyperscale data centers continue to be the key drivers of growth in the global server market and the increasing influence of smaller system makers in the space, according to analysts with Gartner and IDC. Hyperscale companies like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Google run massive data centers that have insatiable appetites for servers and other data […]

Avaya is moving deeper into the cloud with a new communications platform that not only offers customers ways to more easily collaborate but also enables developers to quickly develop collaboration applications. In addition, the company has expanded and rebranded its DevConnect development platform for building unified communications (UC)-enabled apps and is launching an online store […]

Lenovo and Juniper Networks are the latest entrants into what is a fast-growing and increasingly competitive market for hyperconverged and other emerging data center infrastructure solutions. Officials with the two companies on March 9 announced a partnership in which they will take advantage of Lenovo’s strengths in x86 servers and Juniper’s expertise in next-generation networking […]

Intel is taking another step into the realm of 3D video with the planned acquisition of Replay Technologies, a five-year-old Israeli company that the chip maker has been working with since 2013 to bring its immersive and interactive video capabilities to the Intel Architecture. Intel announced early March 9 that it had signed an agreement […]

LAS VEGAS—Aruba Networks officials for several years have been talking about the changing workplace and the role of the wireless network in enabling workers who increasingly are looking for a more open, mobile, flexible and highly collaborative environment in which they are not tied to desks. Offering the tools to help drive this evolving digital […]