Jeff Burt

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Jeffrey Burt has been with eWEEK since 2000, covering an array of areas that includes servers, networking, PCs, processors, converged infrastructure, unified communications and the Internet of things.

Fuze Improves the UC User Experience

Fuze wants to make the experience business users have when using enterprise communications technology as easy and intuitive as what they get from their consumer products. The cloud-based unified communications (UC) vendor on Oct. 11 is unveiling a new user interface that combines voice, video and messaging into a single application to give customers an […]

Citrix Enhances Automation, Flexibility in SD-WAN Offering

Citrix Systems is building more automation and simplicity into its software-defined WAN offering while making the product more affordable. Company officials on Oct. 11 rolled out NetScaler 9.1, the latest version of the vendor’s SD-WAN technology that includes new appliance options for enterprise branch offices and cloud-based services that brings automation to the deployment process. […]

Hyperscale Environments Driving Cloud IT Infrastructure Market

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 […]

Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Chip Architecture Over ARM

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 […]

IoT Standards Groups OCF, AllSeen Alliance Merge

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 the Latest Target in a Consolidating Chip Industry

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 Bolsters Network Security Portfolio

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 Platform Offers Cloud-Based Wired, Wireless Network Support

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?

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 Bulks Up OpenScape UC Platform for Midsize Companies

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 […]