Jeff Burt

HP Inc. is expanding the capabilities in its Sprout all-in-one immersive computing system to make it more suited for the education and professional markets. The company on Jan. 19 introduced Sprout Pro, which comes with new applications and security features that are designed to improve performance and protect data, according to officials. The new offering […]

Businesses Making Move to Hybrid Clouds, Security Remains Key A new study by F5 Networks finds that businesses are moving toward hybrid clouds and that there is still a lot of concern when it comes to security. Application Services Are Critical in Today’s World F5 asked respondents about 24 different cloud application services in areas […]

Riverbed Technology in October 2015 unveiled what officials called “Project Tiger,” an initiative by the newly private company to make a push into the burgeoning software-defined WAN space. The vendor on Jan. 19 took a significant step in that direction when officials announced that it was buying Ocedo, a company based in Germany that offers […]

Lifesize officials have spent the past two years essentially reinventing the company’s business model, an effort that has seen the video and Web conferencing vendor transform from a seller of systems to a cloud-based collaboration provider. The transformation wasn’t easy and wasn’t without pain. Lifesize, as a division of publicly-traded Logitech, saw its financial numbers […]

Polycom is taking its RealPresence collaboration technology to the cloud. Company officials this week unveiled RealPresence Clariti, a new offering that essentially offers all the collaboration infrastructure and capabilities of RealPresence—from audio and video bridging to call control, device management, software clients, analytics, scheduling and firewall traversing—as software that can be deployed in the cloud. […]

The cloud-based unified communications market will grow rapidly over the next several years, particularly among small and midsize companies, according to a survey released this week by BroadSoft. The vendor, which provides unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) offerings, surveyed 129 service providers and industry leaders during its BroadSoft Connections user show in October 2015 to get a […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to help communications service providers manage their services across hybrid network infrastructures. The company this week unveiled HPE Service Director, an expansion of the vendor’s NFV Director management and orchestration capabilities that brings greater automation and openness to service providers’ mixed physical and virtual networks, according to company officials. Communications service […]

Intel executives are beginning to see some positive results from their efforts to expand into growth areas and reduce dependence on the contracting global PC market. But the continued decline in system sales and macroeconomic issues in regions like China are conspiring to get the company off to what CEO Brian Krzanich is calling a […]

Samsung got Qualcomm’s 2015 off on a bad note last year when the company rejected Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 processor for its new Galaxy S6 smartphone, reportedly over heat issues. Now Samsung’s chip manufacturing business will be building Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 820 chip. Samsung Electronics officials on Jan. 14 announced the second generation of its 14-nanometer […]

The burgeoning software defined-WAN space continues to gain steam as businesses look for more efficient and cost-effective ways to move the rapidly growing amount of Web traffic between their remote sites, their data centers and the cloud. This week, Cisco Systems was among the investors that helped SD-WAN startup VeloCloud Networks raise $27 million in […]

Advanced Micro Devices is giving its resurgent data center ambitions a boost with the official launch of the vendor’s long-awaited ARM-based chip aimed at servers, storage devices and networking equipment. The company had been producing the Opteron A1100 systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) for a couple of months, but on Jan. 14, executives announced that that processor family […]

An EMC executive is pushing back at the idea that the company’s acquisition by Dell will reduce innovation or distract the company from R&D efforts. In a post on the company blog, CTO John Roese said the combined company will build on EMC’s legacy of innovation through investments in R&D, acquisitions and startups, and that […]