Jeff Burt

Activist investor Elliott Management reportedly is continuing to push its agenda at Juniper Networks. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Juniper executives are considering adding new directors to its board to address a demand from Elliott officials, who have recommended several new director candidates. Juniper has begun evaluating the proposed candidates, though […]

Earlier this year, there was an event at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government that was held in conjunction with the upcoming release of the movie “The Monuments Men.” The talk included a live audience, but also was streamed to others remotely via Blue Jeans Network’s video conferencing technology. Actor Matt Damon, one of the […]

Pertino already enabled users with devices running Google Android, Linux and a range of Microsoft operating systems to leverage its cloud-based network-as-a-service platform. Now the company is expanding that support to Apple device users. Using Pertino’s new iOSConnect mobile app, employees with Apple iPads or iPhones can now securely access corporate data and applications that […]

Qualcomm is investing $40 million in Chinese tech vendors that develop products in the mobile, wireless and Internet of things arenas. The money, drawn from a $150 million fund aimed at the Chinese market that was announced in July, will go to four companies and a Chinese capital venture fund that invests in semiconductor-related entities. […]

Cisco Systems executives have said that the company will provide the foundational technologies—from networking gear to data center servers and storage—for the tens of billions of devices that will make up the Internet of things. However, the full value of the Internet of things (IoT)—or what Cisco calls the Internet of everything, when including processors, […]

Dell is expanding its open networking initiative by adding network virtualization vendor Midokura to its growing list of partners. Dell will offer Midokura’s Enterprise MidoNet network virtualization overlay solution on both its networking hardware lineup and its x86 servers, a move that company officials said will enable enterprises and service providers to more easily build […]

Qualcomm, the world’s largest mobile chip maker, will cut about 600 jobs, a move that reportedly has more to do with shifting business priorities and less with ongoing issues in China and investigations into business practices in the United States and Europe. Qualcomm has confirmed to media outlets that about 300 of the impacted jobs […]

Arista Networks is pushing back at the lawsuit filed last week by Cisco Systems accusing the smaller networking vendor of violating copyrights on a range of Cisco products and patents. In a post on the company’s blog, Arista President and CEO Jayshree Ullal implied that Cisco is a relic of the last generation in networking […]

Cisco Systems, Brocade and Ciena are the latest networking vendors to join AT&T’s effort to create the carrier’s next-generation cloud-based network that leverages software-defined networking and network-functions virtualization. AT&T named the new members to its supplier program Dec. 10, adding it to a list that already includes Alcatel-Lucent, Fujitsu, Juniper Networks, Ericsson and Affirmed Networks. […]

BOSTON—Shawn Price spent five months heading up software giant SAP’s cloud efforts until he left the company in an executive reshuffling, only to reappear in October as the lead executive for cloud computing rival Oracle. Two months later, the former CEO of SuccessFactors was a key figure here Dec. 9 at the company’s Cloud World […]

For Cisco Systems and other vendors looking to become enterprise IT solution and service providers, security needs to be a key part of the overall portfolio. Cisco for the past several years has been building its security capabilities through both in-house development and acquisitions. The latest acquisition is security advisory firm Neohapsis. Cisco officials announced […]

Lenovo is recalling more than 500,000 AC power cords due to the risk of fire and burn hazards. According to the recall notice issued Dec. 9 by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the power cords—sold with Lenovo laptops between February 2011 and June 2012—can overheat. The recall impacts about 500,000 units in the United […]