Jeff Burt

Vidyo has raised another $15 million in funding, including $10 million from the corporate venture arm of health care company Kaiser Permanente, which has been a customer of the video conferencing vendor. The company announced the latest round of funding Dec. 14, with officials saying that Vidyo has now raised $163 million. The company, which […]

It’s Dell or no one now for EMC. Part of Dell’s $67 billion bid to buy the storage giant included a 60-day “go shop” provision that allowed EMC to entertain offers from other suitors and accept a better deal if one came up. However, that provision ran out Dec. 12, and now the work continues […]

Hitachi Ltd. in one form or another has been making Internet of things (IoT) devices for the past several years, according to Sara Gardner, CTO of the Social Innovation unit at the massive, multi-billion dollar conglomerate. The company casts it shadow on a wide and disparate range of verticals worldwide, from construction machinery and automotive […]

Pluribus Networks wants to make the complex task of running and managing physical and virtual networks as a single unit easier. The startup this week announced its Virtualization-Centric Fabric (VCF), an architecture for the software-defined networking (SDN) space that is part of the company’s Netvisor operating system that runs on open switches. VCF offers a […]

Dell is creating an umbrella organization that will house the business units that build customized and optimized infrastructure offerings for hyperscale companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon and the myriad organizations just below them, ranging from oil-and-gas firms to telecommunications service providers. Dell’s new Extreme Scale Infrastructure (ESI) organization, which was announced Dec. 10, will […]

App Performance Is Key to Business Performance: Riverbed Survey Application performance continues to be important, but the rapidly changing nature of business and technology poses new challenges. Performance Is Important Optimal application performance is critical to optimal business performance, according to 99 percent of the 900 executives surveyed. That said, 89 percent said poor app […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is adding to its lineup of hyper-converged data center offerings by introducing a lower-cost model aimed at midsize businesses and remote enterprise offices. The company’s new two-node Hyper Converged 250 will be available in early 2016, joining two other four-node solutions running VMware and Microsoft workloads. Like the larger two offerings, the […]

Facebook officials have said that the giant social networking company has saved more than $2 billion in data center expenses by using open technologies through the Open Compute Project it founded in 2011. They also have said the effort has helped accelerate the innovation of infrastructure resources, such as servers and networking appliances. Facebook now […]

Spending on the Internet of things will reach almost $1.3 trillion in 2019, almost double the $689.6 billion being spent this year, according to analysts with IDC. In all, IoT spending will increase 17 percent a year between 2015 and 2019, the market research firm found in its latest spending guide, released Dec. 10. Analyst […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is creating an online portal through which carriers can find virtual network functions from an array of partners that are pre-validated to run on their networks. HPE officials unveiled the OpenNFV Solution Portal Dec. 9, saying it gives communications service providers (CSPs) another tool to help them embrace network-functions virtualization (NFV) in […]

Verizon Enterprise Solutions is leveraging its deep partnership with Cisco Systems to roll out new cloud-based communications offerings that address the rise of an increasingly mobile and collaborative workforce. The service provider on Dec. 9 introduced new capabilities that are based on such Cisco technologies as Jabber, Collaborative Meeting Room and WebEx. They come as […]

Juniper Networks is making improvements to its lineup of edge routers to increase throughput performance and expand network automation for both service providers and enterprises. The company is introducing new line cards and software enhancements to its MX Series 3D universal edge routers that officials said will help triple the throughput, ease the migration to […]