Jeff Burt

Intel is pushing deeper into the cognitive computing space with its acquisition of Saffron Technology, a company whose products are designed to mimic the human brain in how it learns and processes information. Such technology has multiple applications for the giant chip maker, though in announcing the deal, Intel officials focused on not only what […]

Cisco Systems is adding to its growing portfolio of security products with the acquisition of Lancope, whose technology will help businesses protect their assets in an increasingly connected and mobile world, according to officials with the giant networking vendor. Cisco announced the $452.5 million deal Oct. 27, with executives saying the company’s StealthWatch system will […]

Oracle and Intel are teaming up to take on IBM in the data center. On the opening night of the OpenWorld 2015 show Oct. 25 in San Francisco, executives with both tech giants announced a program designed to entice businesses to move their Oracle Database environments off IBM’s Power systems and onto Oracle Engineered Systems […]

BroadSoft officials are looking to grow the company’s presence in the increasingly competitive cloud collaboration space with a new initiative that they say will make unified communications simpler and workers more productive. The company on Oct. 26 introduced Project Tempo, an effort based on BroadSoft’s UC-One platform that will integrate real-time communications and collaboration tools […]

Flex Logix Technologies, a semiconductor startup whose technology enables chip makers to put programmable capabilities directly onto the processor, is getting $7.4 million in its latest round of funding. Company executives announced Oct. 26 that the funding was led by Eclipse Ventures, with founding investors Lux Capital and the Tate Family Trust also pitching in. […]

Cisco Systems is bolstering its capabilities in the Internet of things with the acquisition of ParStream, whose analytics database technologies enable organizations to more easily store and parse large amounts of data at the network’s edge. Cisco officials expect the number of connected devices that will make up the Internet of things (IoT) to jump […]

ShoreTel’s two-year effort to create a common platform for its premises- and cloud-based unified communications offerings has been done over three phases, according to CEO Don Joos. The first two—the foundation and migration phases—entailed the bulk of the heavy lifting, from the software coding to the work with employees and channel partners to get them […]

At Dell World, Vendor Keeps Eyes on the Present and Future In addition to looking to the future, Dell World focused on the present with new offerings–from hyperconverged data center systems to business PCs and servers. At the Center of It All During his keynote, Michael Dell told attendees that EMC will give his company […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell’s announcement that it intends to buy storage giant EMC for $67 billion raised a lot of questions about the company’s plans for the future, questions that some officials said can’t be answered this early in the process of what promises to be a significant integration effort. However, one message that executives made clear […]

Hewlett-Packard has given up competing against the likes of Amazon Web Services, announcing that it will shut down its Helion public cloud early next year and focus its efforts on helping customers with their hybrid cloud ambitions. In a post on the company blog Oct. 21, Bill Hilf, senior vice president and general manager of […]

EMC and VMware are creating a new jointly-owned hybrid cloud company that will be based on the Virtustream business that EMC acquired earlier this year and will incorporate other technologies from both of the parent companies. EMC and VMware officials announced the new company—which will carry the Virtustream brand—Oct. 20 during the releases of their […]

AUSTIN, Texas—The Internet of things is going to be about more than billions of connected devices loaded with sensors, according to Dell CEO Michael Dell. It’s going to be about the massive amounts of data that those devices and sensors collect, and the ability of businesses to make sense of that data to rapidly gain […]