Jeff Burt

Alcatel-Lucent and Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica are expanding the work they’re doing together in testing network-functions virtualization technologies for service providers. Telefonica officials, who last year announced a project called Unica to virtualize its network infrastructure by using network-functions virtualization (NFV) technologies and cloud computing, already has tested Alcatel-Lucent’s Virtualized Service Router in its NFV […]

Dell will resell SGI’s scale-up appliance for SAP’s HANA in-memory computing technology, a move that will enable both companies to expand their potential customer bases in the enterprise market. Large enterprises increasingly are adopting SAP HANA and are demanding a single-node architecture that can scale to eight sockets or more, according to SGI officials. By […]

Dell isn’t taking any sides in the ongoing competition in the unified communications space between Cisco Systems and Microsoft. The latest version of Dell’s Unified Communications Command Suite diagnostic software not only adds analytics reporting for Microsoft’s Office 365 for Exchange Online, but also for Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager. Dell’s Unified Communications Command Suite 8.1, […]

Cisco Systems is continuing its investments in overseas markets by promising to spend $1 billion over the next three to five years in the United Kingdom. The money will go into a wide variety of areas, from startups in the Internet of everything to IoE technologies in such areas as financial, retail and health care […]

IBM has unveiled a 7-nanometer test chip, looking to get a jump on Intel as the processor industry looks to extend Moore’s Law while continuing to shrink the processors. Big Blue introduced the 7nm test node July 9, saying it is the result of five years of development work by an alliance of IBM Research, […]

The four-hour outage at the New York Stock Exchange July 8 coupled with problems earlier in the day at United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal brought renewed focus to businesses’ and consumers’ growing dependence on technology and the problems that arise when that technology goes awry. Investors already nervous over concerns about the Chinese […]

Nokia Networks wants to show that drones can be used to help telecommunications carriers test and analyze their networks. The vendor teamed up with Du, a telco service provider in the Middle East, in a proof-of-concept (PoC) that demonstrated that drones carrying smartphones that include network testing applications can be used to test the performance […]

Logitech is expanding the technologies it makes while taking the tech out of its logo. Officials with Logitech, which is best known for its broad array of PC peripherals for consumers and businesses, such as keyboards, mice, speakers and gaming, and more recently its video conferencing systems, said July 8 that the company is undergoing […]

At Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference 2015 in March, much of the focus for CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and other company executives was on the growing field of deep learning—the idea that machines can learn and improve over time based on their experiences. During the show, Nvidia officials unveiled an array of products and tools—from the latest […]

U.K. broadcaster BBC, more than 30 years after launching its first Micro computer aimed at helping kids learn the ins and outs of programming, is showing off the Micro Bit, a minicomputer that will be distributed to about a million school children in the country to teach them how to code and create hardware designs. […]

The already crowded field of industry groups developing standards for the Internet of things just got another member with the launch of the Wireless IoT Forum. The group, founded by Cisco Systems, BT, Accenture and others, wants to drive broad adoption of wireless wide-area networking (WAN) products for the IoT by developing a set of […]

Cisco Systems’ buying spree is continuing this week, with the networking giant spending $139 million to buy a company that offers cloud-based software to manage recurring customer contracts. Cisco officials announced the acquisition of MaintenanceNet July 7, with the closing of the deal coming later this year. Cisco and MaintenanceNet have worked together since 2009 […]