Jeff Burt

Intel is getting some help in its years-long effort to appeal a $1.4 billion fine levied in 2009 by European antitrust regulators. The chip maker has appealed the fine up through the European Union judicial system despite a series of setbacks, eventually reaching the European Union (EU) Court of Justice (ECJ). In an opinion this […]

Avaya is taking its multiple unified communications and conferencing products and putting them onto a single collaboration platform. The move to consolidate the vendor’s various communications applications and interfaces—including the Scopia video conferencing technology inherited when Avaya bought Radvision four years ago and its Aura audio and web conferencing capabilities—onto a single platform called Avaya […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell EMC is pulling together parts from both companies to create a new broad portfolio of endpoint security and management offerings that officials say will be increasingly important as employees become more mobile and more mobile devices are brought into the corporate environment. The new Dell Endpoint Data Security and Management Portfolio, introduced Oct. […]

AUSTIN, Texas—During the 11 months between the time Dell executives announced that the company was buying data storage vendor EMC for more than $60 billion and when the deal closed in September, the two tech vendors had to operate as independent companies. However, officials with both spent those months laying the groundwork for how they […]

Intel saw a lot of growth in most of its business segments in the third quarter, but the outlook for its data center unit and the company’s overall business caught the attention of many analysts. Officials with the chip maker released the company’s most recent quarterly financial numbers Oct. 18, which included revenue hitting a […]

ARM officials took a step forward in their effort to build the software ecosystem around its efforts in the data center when Canonical announced that its Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph offerings are now commercially available on servers powered by ARM’s 64-bit chip architecture. Officials with both companies made the announcement Oct. 17, giving ARM more […]

Lenovo, the world’s top PC vendor, is taking the next step in its effort to grow its presence in the competitive data center space by partnering with all-flash storage vendor Nimble Storage in developing a converged infrastructure offering. The alliance between the two tech vendors is part of a larger push by Lenovo to offer […]

Qualcomm is taking its licensing dispute with Chinese smartphone maker Meizu beyond the borders of China. The mobile chip maker this summer filed more than a dozen complaints against Meizu with intellectual property courts in China in hopes of pressing the device maker to agree to terms of a patent licensing agreement that the two […]

Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of 10-nanometer chips that will be used in devices starting next year, with reports saying that the upcoming Galaxy 8 smartphone could be one of those devices. Samsung officials announced the mass production of the tiny 10nm FinFET system-on-a-chip (SoC) Oct. 17, adding that the company is the first […]

Sprint is the latest carrier to unveil plans to offer software-defined WAN services, partnering with VeloCloud on an effort that will launch early next year. Officials with the telecommunications giant said Sprint will get customer trials for the SD-WAN services under way later this year as the company moves to help organizations migrate their businesses […]