Jeff Burt

As the Internet of things has grown, so has the debate about security around it. Much of the focus has been around the fact that with billions of new systems, devices and sensors connecting each year, the attack surface for hackers continues to widen. Add in a lack of security in many of these connected […]

Dell’s $67 billion bid for data storage giant EMC reportedly has hit a bump in its efforts to finance the massive deal. The company, which needs to raise $45 billion to finance the acquisition, is finding it more difficult than expected to raise the initial $10 billion, according to reports by Reuters and the New […]

Executives from EMC are continuing their efforts to reassure investors, customers, employees and the industry that Dell’s $67 billion bid to buy the storage giant and its various companies is in the best interests of everyone involved. Most recently, EMC CEO Joe Tucci and Bill Green, the company’s lead independent board member, took to the […]

Nvidia got some good news this week when a federal jury ruled that the graphics chip maker did not infringe on a Samsung Electronics patent, the latest step in a long-running legal dispute that began in 2014. The case, heard in a federal courthouse in Richmond, Va., centered on memory chips that Nvidia officials had […]

More Users, More Devices Mean Mobile Traffic Will Surge, Cisco Says Cisco Systems predicts an increase in the use of mobile device and mobile networks by 2020, and that more than 5 billion people will have mobile devices by then. The Amount of Traffic Is Only Going Up By 2020, data traffic running across mobile […]

Qualcomm officials are continuing their efforts to expand the reach of the company’s wireless chip technologies beyond consumer mobile devices and into emerging industries, such as connected cars, networking and the Internet of things. The company on Feb. 11 unveiled its latest efforts, introducing a broad array of new chips that can be used not […]

Cisco Systems officials were able to pull together a strong financial second quarter despite strong competition and a volatile global economic environment while at the same time continuing to rapidly evolve the company’s business model. Cisco on Feb. 10 announced that during the last fiscal quarter, revenue jumped 2 percent over the same period in […]

Cisco Systems is introducing new offerings into several switch products lines that officials say will help businesses keep up with the pace of change being fueled by such trends as the consumerization of IT and the rapidly growing Internet of things. The networking giant is growing its Aironet, Catalyst and ASR switch families to give […]

Vidyo officials are unveiling enhancements to the company’s software-based video conferencing platform that they say will make it easier and less expensive for enterprises to address such growing issues as an increasingly mobile workforce, around-the-clock customer demands and the need for greater security. The company on Feb. 10 announced upgrades to its VidyoWorks platform that […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is using high-speed interconnect technology from SGI in a new eight-socket server aimed at handling the growing high-volume Linux workloads that stem from the rise in mobile computing, data volumes and cloud computing. HPE officials this week unveiled the Integrity MC990 X server, an x86-based addition to the mission-critical system lineup that […]

Prysm over the past 10 years has made its name with displays used in collaboration settings that spanned everything from large-scale video walls to boardrooms to two-person “huddle rooms.” The company’s products were built on its Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology and based on the Prysm Application Suite that gave users control of the collaboration […]

ThinkingPhones in November 2015 bought Fuze in an effort to grow the video conferencing capabilities of its cloud-based unified communications offerings. Now ThinkingPhones is Fuze. ThinkingPhones executives on Feb. 9 announced that the company is changing its name to Fuze, which they say better reflects the rapidly expanding nature of the vendor’s portfolio. At the […]