Jeff Burt

Verizon is expanding its software-defined networking capabilities through a partnership with Viptela that will offer end users an SD-WAN service hosted on the carrier’s own cloud. The new SD-WAN managed service will give Verizon customers even more choice when deciding what services they want, how much bandwidth their workloads need and how they can access […]

Unify, the unified communications technology company that now is a business unit within IT vendor Atos, has a new CEO. Jon Pritchard, who had been executive vice president of channels at Unify, is now taking over the unified communications (UC) business, replacing Dean Douglas after more than two years as CEO. Atos officials announced the […]

Intel officials at the upcoming Embedded World 2016 show will roll out a broad array of hardware and software that will make it easier for developers to create new products for the Internet of things. The chip maker will unveil new developer kits, software tools and modules that will reduce the complexity around creating Internet […]

Dell officials are preparing to unveil a highly flexible rack-level infrastructure offering that is designed to help carriers and cloud service providers address the rapidly changing demands from the rapid growth of data and emerging trends like the Internet of things and 5G networking. At the 2016 Mobile World Congress show later this month, Dell […]

Juniper Networks and Affirmed Networks are pooling their resources to create a reference architecture to help service providers more easily transition to virtualized mobile architectures that will help them better respond to the rapid growth in the number of connected devices and competitors. The two companies on Feb. 17 said they are partnering to jointly […]

Dell officials are pushing back at recent reports that the company is hitting a bump in its efforts to finance its $67 billion acquisition of EMC and its federated companies. In a letter to employees, Rory Read, Dell’s chief integration officer and the lead executive in the merger efforts, said the financing for the acquisition […]

Cisco Systems officials are looking to extend the company’s reach in the highly competitive cloud computing space through a partnership with cloud software maker Pivotal, one of several vendors that make up data storage giant EMC’s federation of companies. The agreement calls for Cisco and Pivotal to resell each other’s cloud computing technologies, with the […]

Brocade wants to help mobile operators get ahead of the migration to 5G networks. The company on Feb. 16 unveiled new offerings designed to help mobile network operators begin transforming their infrastructures to handle the rapidly growing traffic that is coming from such emerging services as the Internet of things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) computing, high-definition […]

Open Networking Foundation officials are hoping to accelerate the adoption of network virtualization by including support for the OpenDaylight SDN controller in the latest release of its open-source Atrium software distribution. The organization on Feb. 16 released Atrium 2016/A, a collection of integrated, open-source components that together comprise an SDN software stack that vendors can […]

Japanese PC makers Vaio, Toshiba and Fujitsu reportedly are a month away from merging their computer businesses and creating a larger entity that they hope will be better suited to compete in a market that is contracting worldwide and is dominated by the likes of Lenovo, HP Inc. and Dell. Reports of a possible merger […]

In the fast-growing world of software-defined networking, there is room for both large and small vendors, at least for now. According to a recent survey by QuinStreet Enterprise of 466 IT professionals, most larger enterprises, when adopting network virtualization technologies, are turning to established networking vendors, which is good news for the likes of Cisco […]

Advanced Micro Devices is betting on its upcoming “Zen” core architecture to put it back in play in the data center and in PCs against larger rival Intel. Company officials introduced Zen in May 2015, outlining an architecture that will support simultaneous multi-threading (SMT)—a technology similar to Intel’s Hyper-Threading—and DDR4 memory, and will feature a […]