Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems officials are enhancing the capabilities within the vendor’s IOS XR networking operating system to enable service providers and cloud operators to more easily deliver applications to customers and drive down the cost of their networks. The improvements to the network OS are designed to make networks more programmable and to enable service providers […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is working with Intel to develop products that will be able to collect, store and analyze the massive amounts of data being generated by the growing numbers of devices and systems that make up the Internet of things. The partnership will include HPE’s array of Internet of things (IoT) capabilities and Intel’s […]

ARM Reached From IoT to the Data Center at TechCon 2015 ARM wants to extend the reach of its silicon designs into new markets. At its TechCon 2015 show, the talk focused on subjects like servers, security and IoT. Delivering the Message ARM CTO Mike Muller, left, and CEO Simon Segars touted the company’s efforts […]

ThinkingPhones, continuing its aggressive acquisition strategy as a way to add capabilities to its cloud-based unified communications offerings, is bolstering its video conferencing expertise through the purchase of Fuze. ThinkingPhones announced the acquisition of Fuze Nov. 16, saying the company’s cloud-based video conferencing technology will fit well with ThinkingPhones’ unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) solutions, and will enable […]

Supercomputers armed with the next generation of Intel’s many-core Xeon Phi processor will begin appearing next year, though some hardware makers currently are running pre-production versions of the chip in systems as they gear up for supercomputer deployments. At the same time, Intel officials at the SC 15 supercomputer show in Austin, Texas, on Nov. […]

Cisco Systems and Ericsson may want to be partners in the rapidly shifting networking space, but neither is interested in Cisco buying Ericsson. A story in a Swedish daily publication, Dagens Industri, that came out days after the announcement indicated that during the year-plus that the two vendors had been in negotiations, Cisco officials also […]

China is the story coming out of the latest version of the twice-yearly Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, not only keeping hold of the No. 1 spot on the list for the sixth consecutive time, but also tripling the number of systems on the list overall. There isn’t much change at the top […]

IBM is partnering with Xilinx to expand the use of programmable chips to its Power systems as the tech vendor looks to gain more share of the server chip market from Intel. The two companies will collaborate on a wide range of efforts that are focused on using Xilinx field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in Power […]

The high-performance computing space is becoming a key market for ARM, which is looking to expand the reach of the company’s low-power silicon designs beyond smartphones and tablets. Over the past couple of years, ARM and its chip-making partners have been making strides in a market that has been dominated by the likes of Intel […]

Blue Jeans Network this week rolled out the latest version of its cloud-based video conferencing service that includes an improved unified user interface for better desktop and WebRTC support for Google Chrome. Blue Jeans 3.0 also includes improved support for a range of collaboration tools, including Slack and Canvas, which company officials said will complement […]

Samsung Electronics later this year will begin mass producing its latest Exynos smartphone processor that will be the first in the vendor’s lineup to feature a custom core of its own design, a move that is in line with other ARM-based chip makers like Qualcomm and Apple. Samsung officials this week announced the 64-bit Exynos […]

Michael Dell is having none of this “post-PC” talk. The Dell founder and CEO, who began making PCs in the 1980s in his university dorm room, has been a champion of the form factor for decades—and has become a billionaire thanks to it—even over the past several years as the number of PC shipments worldwide […]