Jeff Burt

Hyperscale service providers will drive growth in spending in the global cloud IT infrastructure market this year, which is expected to show an increase of 16.2 percent from 2015, according to analysts with market research firm IDC. In a report this month, analysts said spending on IT infrastructure—including servers, enterprise storage products and Ethernet switches—for […]

When Linus Torvalds thinks about his favorite chip architecture, he thinks about the x86 processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. What Torvalds doesn’t think about is the ARM architecture, a point he made this month during a talk at the annual conference hosted by Linaro—an organization that is dedicated to developing a Linux ecosystem […]

The AllSeen Alliance, one of the early industry consortiums aimed at creating open interoperability standards for the internet of things, is being absorbed by another group with similar ambitions, the Open Connectivity Foundation. Officials with both organizations announced Oct. 10 that the two groups are merging and that the larger consortium will keep the Open […]

NXP Semiconductors is getting a lot of attention these days. Late last month, reports surfaced that Qualcomm, the top mobile chip vendor in the world, was in talks to buy the semiconductor maker for as much as $30 billion, a move that would essentially put Qualcomm behind Intel as the second largest processor company. A […]

Juniper Networks is rolling out an array of new and enhanced security capabilities that are designed to give organizations tools to better protect their networks against the increasingly complex threats to their infrastructures. The new security improvements unveiled by company officials this week at the vendor’s NXTWORK 2016 user conference include a new Policy Enforcer […]

Avaya is introducing a new platform that lets enterprises and midsize businesses deploy and manage their wired and wireless networks through the cloud. At the IP Expo show in London this week, Avaya officials unveiled the Avaya Cloud Networking Platform, which gives customers a centralized resource to more easily manage and gain visibility into their […]

Riskiest Celebrity Names to Click On: Who Made the List? When you search on celebrities’ names and click, consider the security risks. Amy Schumer and Justin Bieber top Intel Security’s list of most dangerous names to click on. Amy Schumer Takes the No. 1 Spot According to Intel’s numbers, consumers have a 16.11 percent chance […]

Unify wants to make deployment and management of business communications easier for midsize companies with the latest edition of its OpenScape Enterprise Express offering. The company is rolling out OpenScape Enterprise Express v9, which officials said is an all-in-one solution that integrates a broad array of Unify collaboration capabilities and is designed to scale better […]

Many Americans Dismayed by Advent of Self-Driving Cars Even though there are a lot of advantages to autonomous vehicles, many Americans don’t want to give up control of their cars, according to a Kelley Blue Book survey. The Question of Safety vs. Control Fifty-one percent of those surveyed said they would rather have full control […]

Viptela is turning to the channel to get its software-defined WAN technology out to more customers. The company—one of a growing number of vendors looking to grab a share of an SD-WAN market that IDC analysts predict will hit $6 billion by 2020—on Oct. 6 launched its vForce Global Partner Program, which offers partners a […]

Lenovo reportedly may buy Fujitsu’s PC business, a move that would further expand Lenovo’s lead position in the struggling global PC market while enabling Fujitsu to get the money-losing unit off its books. Fujitsu officials, in a statement to The Wall Street Journal, said they “are considering various options for the PC unit, including a […]

Intel is turning to the cloud to make its consumer security capabilities more effective. The chip maker’s security group this week unveiled enhancements to its McAfee AntiVirus Plus, Internet Security, Total Protection and LifeSafe software suite that aim to protect the growing number and variety of connected devices consumers are using as the internet of […]