Jeff Burt

Officials with startup Flex Logix Technologies believe they have a developed a way of making a better FPGA. Field-programmable gate arrays are chips that can be reprogrammed to run a wide array of applications, giving hardware and software makers greater flexibility in the workloads that run in systems. Essentially, the chip can be configured to […]

Cisco Systems has seen strong adoption over the past year of its Application Centric Infrastructure technology, the vendor’s answer to the growing network virtualization movement. In the last financial quarter, Cisco saw the number of customers for the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and the foundational Nexus 9000 switches increase to more than 1,700, and revenues […]

Fujitsu will migrate all of its internal systems to a new OpenStack-based cloud platform in an initiative that not only will save the giant tech vendor hundreds of millions of dollars over the next five years but also will give it the expertise needed to become a larger player in the global cloud market. Fujitsu […]

The Open Networking Foundation, one of several industry consortiums looking to drive commercial adoption of software-defined networking through open-source efforts, is creating a development community around the effort as well as a code repository. The organization announced the creation of Open Source SDN and its Website Feb. 18, with officials saying the move was made […]

Big Switch Networks officials are looking to rapidly expand the reach of its software-define d networking portfolio by making it easier for administrators to test the products and for partners to sell the technology to end users. Big Switch on Feb. 19 launched BSN Labs, a Web portal through which network administrators and architects can […]

Hewlett-Packard is the latest networking vendor to offer open switches that can run operating systems from other vendors. HP is joining the likes of Dell and Juniper Networks in the trend toward network disaggregation, where organizations can buy hardware from one vendor and software from another, a break from traditional networking where companies like Cisco […]

Engineers with Freescale and Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs are working together to develop a programmable universal access device that can be used for any combination of wireless and wireline connections. The project is part of an expansion of a years-long working relationship between the two companies that is entering its third phase, according to Tareq Bustami, […]

Juniper Networks is rolling out new networking routers and features in its Junos Space network management software to help out mobile service providers that are under pressure to supply more bandwidth and more quickly spin out new services to customers. Juniper officials on Feb. 18 unveiled the new ACX500 and ACX5000 routers, which offer such […]

Just months after closing the $2.1 billion deal for IBM’s x86 server business, Lenovo is developing a prototype server powered by ARM-based processors, becoming the third top-tier server maker to explore systems that use the low-power architecture. Lenovo, now the world’s third-largest server vendor, is working with the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), a […]

Unisys is making it easier for organizations leveraging the vendor’s Forward integrated computing platform to provision and manage their business-critical workloads across cloud and on-premises data center environments. Among the enhancements Unisys officials are making to its Forward platform are the ability to integrate the vendor’s Choreographer cloud management software, which enables the automated provisioning […]

Oracle Continues to Grow Hardware Business 5 Years After Sun Deal by Jeffrey Burt No Change at the Top After buying Sun, Ellison held onto John Fowler, who had headed up Sun’s hardware business. Fowler is now Oracle’s executive vice president of systems, responsible for everything from SPARC- and x86-based servers to networking and storage […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers has a message for those concerned that software-defined networking poses a threat to his company’s future: Don’t worry about it. During the last financial quarter, Cisco saw sales of its network switches grow 11 percent over the same period a year earlier. More specifically, revenues for its Nexus 3000 and […]