Jeff Burt

Don’t count Oracle founder Larry Ellison among the critics of Dell’s controversial $67 billion deal to buy data storage giant EMC and its assorted federated companies. Speaking with financial analysts last week about Oracle’s plans in such areas as cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS), Ellison fielded a question about the proposed merger, which was announced […]

As Advanced Micro Devices officials look to stabilize the chip maker and return it to sustainable profitability, graphics technology will play a key role in the effort. At a meeting with financial analysts earlier this year, CEO Lisa Su and other executives talked about advances they were making with its Radeon GPUs, from adding the […]

Global network traffic from data centers will triple between 2014 and 2019, and the cloud traffic that makes up an increasingly larger portion of that will continue to grow, quadrupling during the same time frame, according to Cisco Systems officials. In its fifth annual Global Cloud Index released this week, the networking giant said data […]

Cisco Forecasts Traffic in the Cloud Will Only Get Busier From 2014 to 2019, global data center traffic will almost triple, and cloud traffic is becoming an increasingly larger part of that, more than quadrupling, Cisco predicts. Traffic is Going One Way–Up According to Cisco’s numbers, global data center traffic will grow from 3.4 zettabytes […]

Startup Helium Systems is releasing a platform that officials say will give businesses an easier pathway into the booming Internet of things. The company, which launched in 2013, this week unveiled its Helium platform, which comes with sensors, a wireless network, a cloud for collecting the data from the sensors, and analytics and management software […]

Network virtualization vendor Midokura is rolling out the latest version of its enterprise-class software-defined networking offering that includes support of the latest release of the OpenStack cloud platform and the increasingly popular container technology. Midokura officials announced the release of the latest version of Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) this week during the OpenStack Summit in […]

Qualcomm is continuing to grow its capabilities in the Internet of things, most recently with the unveiling this week of a reference design and development platform for surveillance cameras that feature the chip maker’s Snapdragon architecture. Qualcomm’s efforts in the Internet of things (IoT) have touched on everything from smart lighting to consumer drones. Now […]

Tely believes the pathway into the enterprise initially will go through huddle rooms. The company, which launched in 2010 and had focused on video communications tools for consumers, is making its push into the enterprise with the rollout of the Tely 200, a video collaboration endpoint that can be used with a broad array of […]

Hewlett-Packard may be getting out of the public cloud business, but it’s not getting out of clouds altogether. Instead, the company will use the resources that had been spent on its Helion public cloud and put more effort into the work it is doing in helping businesses build private and hybrid cloud environments, according to […]

Verizon is making a significant push into the burgeoning Internet of things, (IoT) and already is seeing some good returns on the effort. During a conference call with analysts and journalists Oct. 20 to talk about the company’s latest quarterly numbers, Frank Shammo, executive vice president and CFO, noted that in the first nine months […]

Cisco Systems is continuing its buying spree with the announcement Oct. 28 that it is acquiring 1 Mainstream to boost its cloud video efforts. 1 Mainstream marks the third company in as many days this week that Cisco officials said they intend to acquire. On Oct. 26, the company announced it is buying ParStream, a […]

Few people expected Larry Ellison to keep Sun Microsystems’ hardware business when Oracle bought the company for $7.9 billion in 2010. The belief was that Ellison and Oracle executives were after Sun’s software and developer assets, such as Solaris and Java. There was no reason for a top-tier enterprise software maker like Oracle to get […]