Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard is being sued by the state of Michigan for $49 million for not completing a project to replace an aging computer system in offices around the state. Despite having 10 years to complete the project, HP has not delivered a computing system to replace the mainframe-based solution that was built in the 1960s and […]

Intel is continuing to ramp up its efforts in the China market, with the latest move being $67 million in investments in eight Chinese tech companies that touch on such markets as robotics, cloud computing, big data and the Internet of things. Officials with the world’s largest chip maker said the investments are part of […]

Power efficiency is a key metric for Advanced Micro Devices engineers when they’re designing the company’s processors, and that is best illustrated by the vendor’s stated goal of improving the energy efficiency of its mobile platform by 25 times between 2014 and 2020. AMD’s new “Carrizo” accelerated processing unit (APU) is a key step in […]

Advanced Micro Devices, which is making an aggressive push in both high-end PCs and the data center in an effort to gain market share from larger rival Intel, will now have to do so without the services of its top chip architect. Jim Keller, who as chief architect has a driving force behind the development […]

Juniper Networks and Aerohive Networks are jointly developing a wired and wireless networking solution aimed at distributed enterprises that are wrestling with such trends as the consumerization of IT, cloud computing and the Internet of things (IoT) and the need for a secure and scalable network from the edge to the data center. The two […]

Lifesize Communications, which over the past year has been aggressively building out its cloud-based video conferencing capabilities, is now offering a WebRTC-powered app aimed at customers using Google’s Chrome browser. The company, a division of Logitech, announced the Lifesize Cloud Web App Sept. 16, with officials saying it gives Chrome users full access to the […]

Juniper Networks is opening its OpenLab incubation facility to software developers and startups looking to create solutions for virtualized networks. The company has been running the OpenLab facility in New Jersey since 2012 to give customers, partners and researchers a place to leverage Juniper’s hardware, software and interfaces to create integrated networking services and software. […]

The brutal string of job cuts over the past several years at Hewlett-Packard will continue after the company splits in two in November. At a meeting with analysts in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 15, HP executives said that once the tech vendor breaks apart, the two companies that come out of the split—Hewlett Packard Enterprise […]

Salesforce wants to use its massive cloud computing capabilities to make it easier for businesses to gain useful, real-time information from the massive amounts of data being generated by the devices that make up the Internet of things. At the company’s Dreamforce 2015 event in San Francisco Sept. 15, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff unveiled the […]

Qualcomm officials are bringing a lot of fast connectivity to its upcoming next-generation Snapdragon chip. At the company’s 3G/LTE Summit in Hong Kong, the company announced that the Snapdragon 820 will include an integrated X12 LTE modem for connectivity that will offer download speeds of up to 600Mb/s and upload speeds of up to 150Mb/s […]

U.S. Workers Not Protecting Data Despite Threats A Citrix study finds that U.S. workers are aware of threats to security and data. However, many fail to take basic security steps to protect their data. A Sense of Inevitability Eighty-four percent of respondents feel their personal information is more vulnerable now than it was a year […]

Brocade is expanding its network virtualization portfolio with the latest version of its software-defined network controller, which is based on the new open-source Lithium release from the OpenDaylight Project. Brocade SDN Controller 2.0 offers a range of new features to help organizations more easily scale and manage their data center infrastructure. At the same time, […]