Jeff Burt

Snapdragon 820 Gives Qualcomm a Better Start to 2016 Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 is picking up steam. We look at new smartphones powered with the premium processor—as well as other handsets with competing chips. Snapdragon 820 Comes Fully Loaded Qualcomm’s high-end SoC includes not only the Kyro CPU, but also improved graphics technology, a digital signal […]

Cisco Systems officials want to help developers create apps for the company’s Spark communications platform. At the Enterprise Connect 2016 show in Orlando, Fla., March 8, Cisco announced a $150 million fund to invest in efforts by others to use Spark APIs to create custom apps and integration tools. Called the Cisco Spark Innovation Fund, […]

LAS VEGAS—Dominic Orr spent much of his time last year at Aruba Networks’ user conference assuring customers and partners that Hewlett-Packard’s planned acquisition would be good for the company but would not fundamentally change what they liked about Aruba. A year later, Orr—who was CEO of Aruba at the time, and now is president of […]

LAS VEGAS—Aruba Networks, a year after being acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is rolling out an array of integrated wired and wireless networking software and hardware that leverages the technology of both companies to address the growing trends of an increasingly mobile workforce, the Internet of things and cloud-based apps. On the first day of […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is bringing storage into its growing portfolio of open data center infrastructure systems and expanding its lineup of open networking switches. HPE officials on March 8 unveiled a storage server for its Cloudline family of systems and four new models of its Altoline 6900 open switches. In addition, the company announced a […]

Logitech officials continue to rapidly grow the company’s portfolio of video conferencing products that can be used in the enterprise and smaller businesses. The company for several years has been offering peripherals—including cameras and speakerphones—that can be used with PCs or tablets to create video conferencing environments for groups and rooms of various sizes. Customers […]

The industry consortium developing an open-source platform for network-functions virtualization is unveiling the second release of its software, which not only brings an array of new features and use cases but also is an indication of the growing maturity of the group. The Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) Project this week announced the second release […]

Vidyo is looking to separate itself in an increasingly competitive video conferencing space by offering its technology as a hosted service. The company has provided software-based video communications to customers for several years, but this week unveiled Hosted VidyoConferencing, a video conferencing-as-a-service (VCaaS) offering that is housed in Vidyo’s data center and accessed via the […]

Cisco Systems in recent years has been putting a lot of effort behind growing its software portfolio as it looks to become a larger player in such areas as cloud computing and software-defined infrastructures. However, officials with the networking giant aren’t abandoning Cisco’s hardware heritage, as illustrated by their decision to buy Leaba Semiconductor, a […]

Intel reportedly is developing a headset similar to Microsoft’s HoloLens that would leverage the chip maker’s RealSense 3D camera technology to offer augmented-reality capabilities. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed people briefed on the company’s plans, reported that Intel’s AR headset would rival those being developed not only by Microsoft but also by such companies […]

Cisco Systems, known for the past two decades as the world’s top vendor of networking hardware, is pushing a bulked up software portfolio as the technology platform that will help customers accelerate the digitization of their businesses. At the company’s Partner Summit 2016 event March 2, Cisco officials introduced the Digital Network Architecture (DNA), a […]

Cisco Systems is buying CliQr Technologies, a company whose orchestration platform is designed to help customers better manage the lifecycle of applications in the cloud. Cisco officials announced the company’s intent to buy CliQr for $260 million March 1, the first day of its Partner Summit 2016 event. CliQr’s CloudCenter platform provides customers with a […]