Jeff Burt

Broadcom is rolling out a software platform that will enable developers to create applications for networking switches that are powered by the company’s silicon. Broadcom introduced its Open Network Switch Library (OpenNSL) March 10 at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose, Calif. The APIs that are included in the open development platform […]

Vapor IO officials believe they can build a better data center. The startup came out of stealth mode this week with a data center design that moves away from the traditional hot aisle-cold aisle model found in traditional facilities, and is part of a larger push in the industry to move more of the data […]

Dell and several other tech vendors want to make running the network operating system on any switch as easy as it is for applications to run on any x86-based server. Dell Networking officials on March 10 submitted a Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) to the Open Compute Project (OCP) for review. The network API is the […]

Over the past three years, Facebook has saved $2 billion in infrastructure costs and enough energy to power almost 80,000 homes due to the work of the Open Compute Project and its own internal engineers to create highly-efficient data center systems, according to officials. The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an effort Facebook officials kicked […]

Dell is giving organizations an easier way to ensure that the growing numbers of endpoints being used by their employees are protected against malware and other threats. Company officials on March 10 rolled out the Dell Data Protection/Endpoint Security Suite (DDP/ESS), a single offering that can be used with commercial systems from Dell or other […]

Hewlett-Packard last year announced a partnership with contract manufacturer Foxconn to build open, low-cost servers for cloud environments that would enable the tech giant to push back at the encroachment of white-box makers in the data center. HP on March 10 unveiled the first fruits of the Foxconn partnership, announcing a new family of basic, […]

Intel is launching its first system-on-a-chip for the Xeon server family, a move targeting an expanding base of cloud and network service providers as well as the growing challenge presented by ARM and its chip partners in the data center. Intel officials first talked about the low-power 14-nanometer Xeon D processors last year, and in […]

Vidyo is bringing its cloud-based video conferencing capabilities to smart eyewear. Company officials on March 9 announced a new solution that enables VidyoWorks high-definition collaboration software on smart glasses. Vidyo is making VidyoWorks mobile client APIs available to developers creating applications for smart glasses who want to embed real-time video, audio and content collaboration in […]

Alcatel-Lucent wants to make it easier for network operators to leverage both cellular and WiFi technologies to increase bandwidth and improve the user experience. At Mobile World Congress 2015 (MWC) this week, Alcatel-Lucent officials unveiled the company’s Wireless Unified Networks initiative that essentially brings together stand-alone WiFi and cellular networks into a unified single network, […]

For much of its history, the Mobile World Congress show has been a showcase of the latest mobile devices, a place where systems makers could unveil their latest smartphones and tablets to an audience anxious to try them out. However, the rapid adoption of those devices by a fast- growing number of users worldwide—combined with […]

Cisco Systems officials are continuing on their push to make the tech vendor a one-stop shop for organizations that are looking for ways to make sense of the tsunami of data that is coming their way. The company has been building up its big data capabilities, most recently with the rollout in December 2014 of […]

IBM looked to its own back yard as the place to run scale-out servers based on OpenPower processors. The giant tech vendor’s SoftLayer cloud division will add bare-metal servers running the processors to the list of cloud-based services it offers to end users, according to officials. At the same time, it will give the OpenPower […]