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VMware SDN Executive Casado Leaves for VC Firm

Martin Casado, the software-defined network pioneer who joined VMware when the virtualization company bought his startup almost four years ago, is leaving the virtualization...

UC Vendor Unify Has a New CEO

Unify, the unified communications technology company that now is a business unit within IT vendor Atos, has a new CEO.Jon Pritchard, who had been...

Juniper, Affirmed to Help Service Providers Become More Mobile

Juniper Networks and Affirmed Networks are pooling their resources to create a reference architecture to help service providers more easily transition to virtualized mobile...

Brocade Unveils New Offerings for Mobile Network Operators

Brocade wants to help mobile operators get ahead of the migration to 5G networks.The company on Feb. 16 unveiled new offerings designed to help...

Nvidia Wins Patent Trial Brought by Samsung

Nvidia got some good news this week when a federal jury ruled that the graphics chip maker did not infringe on a Samsung Electronics...

BroadSoft Buys Cloud Contact Center Vendor Transera

BroadSoft is bolstering its cloud communications business with the acquisition of Transera, which makes cloud-based contact center software for large enterprises and smaller businesses.BroadSoft...

Google Reportedly Ready to Support Qualcomm Server Chips

Google officials reportedly are getting ready to throw their support behind Qualcomm's efforts to bring ARM-based 64-bit processors to data center servers.Citing unnamed sources,...

Ex-AMD, Apple CPU Architect Keller Heads to Tesla

The key architect behind some of the more successful processors for Advanced Micro Devices and Apple will now head up the self-driving automobile efforts...

Michael Dell: ‘I Am Not Running for President’

With the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primaries almost upon us, it shouldn't have been too surprising that politics found its way into a...

Ex-Polycom CEO to Pay $450,000 Fine in SEC Case

The former CEO of video conferencing technology vendor Polycom reportedly will pay a $450,000 fine to settle a lawsuit brought by federal regulators that...