Jeff Burt

In the world of online video piracy, the streaming of live events is increasingly becoming among the most difficult challenges. Where once streaming was low resolution and delivered through websites that were rife with malware and advertising, they now offer a better user experience—high-definition resolution on multiple screens and multiple devices and with a broad […]

Lenovo is arming new desktop and notebook PCs with Advanced Micro Devices’ latest chips aimed at business systems. At the Canalys Channels Forum in China, AMD officials showed off two new Lenovo commercial notebooks and a desktop PC powered by the chip maker’s 7th Generation Pro accelerated processing units (APUs), formerly code-named “Bristol Ridge Pro” […]

Chip rivals Intel and ARM are making deeper pushes into the increasingly competitive internet of things arena. At the IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 25, Intel officials unveiled the latest iteration of its low-power Atom processors, the E3900 series (pictured), which is aimed at IoT applications and comes with greater levels of […]

Pexip officials are enabling organizations to scale their enterprise collaboration capabilities even when demand spikes to outpace capacity. With the latest release of Pexip Infinity V13 collaboration software platform, businesses can burst to Amazon Web Services when the number of users on their conferencing systems reach the maximum capacity. Pexip officials said this is a […]

Virtustream, the cloud computing company that now is part of the larger post-EMC-deal Dell Technologies, has been on something of a wild ride over the past 18 months or so. The company, which was founded in 2009 as a cloud infrastructure provider for the big, complex mission-critical business applications that run in almost every organization […]

Cumulus Networks is launching an online marketplace that features products created by third parties that are built on the vendor’s Linux-based networking operating system. The Cumulus Networks Solutions Marketplace is a central repository for a broad range of offerings and makes it easier for network and cloud engineers to standardize their system architectures by helping […]

The focus of last week’s Dell EMC World 2016 show was largely on enterprise IT, which shouldn’t come as a surprise given the newly combined company’s strengths in such areas as servers, data storage, virtualization and the cloud. But officials with Dell Technologies made sure to stress that despite the continued shrinking global market, PCs […]

Two key players in the open-standards efforts around network virtualization will merge next year, bringing some consolidation to an area where over the past several years there has been a proliferation of standards groups. Officials with the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) this week announced that the two organizations will become […]

Combined Dell EMC Shows Off Its Enterprise IT Prowess Now the world’s largest vendor of enterprise IT solutions with the broadest portfolio, Dell EMC showcased some of its products and technologies. The Transformation “Let the Transformation Begin” was the theme for the show, and it had multiple meanings, referring not only to the transformation of […]

Qualcomm is driving deeper into the internet of things and 5G connectivity. At the mobile chip maker’s 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong this week, Qualcomm officials unveiled plans to expand its reach in the camera space by developing hardware and software designed for video and imaging devices beyond the cameras found in mobile devices. The […]