Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard executives are pulling together myriad internal teams that will be needed over the next several months as the giant tech vendor splits into two separate companies. Speaking with analysts and journalists Nov. 26 about HP’s latest quarterly financial numbers, CEO Meg Whitman gave more details about the work under way to break apart a […]

The Lenovo at the end of November is a markedly different one than the one at the beginning of the year. It was in January that Lenovo executives announced within days of each other that the company was going to buy IBM’s x86 server business and Google’s Motorola Mobility handset unit in deals totaling about […]

The trends in worldwide shipments of PCs and tablets are continuing to change, according to IDC analysts. In a report Nov. 25, the market research firms said the decline in shipments of PCs will continue to slow, hitting a 2.7 percent drop this year. It’s still a decline—continuing a streak that began in 2011—but the […]

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is looking to give smaller companies the same type of communication capabilities as their larger brethren. The company—which recently was spun out of parent company Alcatel-Lucent—is rolling out its enhanced OpenTouch Suite for SMB, a lineup of communications solutions that is designed to give small and midsize businesses the tools they need to […]

Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies is building a lab that officials said will help fuel the development and adoption by telecommunications companies of network-functions virtualization and software-defined networking technologies. Huawei officials announced the construction of the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Open Lab Nov. 24, saying the center will help ensure that solutions and carrier-grade infrastructures […]

Immigration policy in the United States is an important issue in the tech industry, where companies rely on foreign skilled workers to help create the software, systems and devices that are helping to fuel business and the economy. President Obama is predictably getting pushback from the Republican Party for the executive decision he announced Nov. […]

The ongoing patent dispute between Nvidia and Samsung is continuing to ramp up, with the device maker asking federal regulators to block the sale of Nvidia’s graphics chips in the United States. Samsung officials—whose patent infringement lawsuit against Nvidia was filed earlier this month, two months after the GPU maker filed its own lawsuit and […]

Cisco Systems officials spent much of the week quickly ramping up the company’s collaboration abilities, unveiling everything from a new mobile app designed to make it easier in these days of greater worker mobility for workers to meet to a new room-based TelePresence system that is powerful yet energy-efficient. Another move Cisco made was partnering […]

IBM, Cray Dominate List of Top 10 Fastest Supercomputers by Jeffrey Burt Still the Reigning King China’s Tianhe-2 system has been at the top of the list since it first became No. 1 in June 2013. The system, powered by Intel Xeon chips and Xeon Phi coprocessors, has a max performance of 33.86 petaflops and […]

Advanced Micro Devices next year will launch an integrated chip called Carrizo that will replace the current Kaveri offerings as the chip maker looks to gain greater footing in the PC space, which is dominated by larger rival Intel. AMD official unveiled Carrizo and another x86 system-on-a-chip (SoC), “Carrizo-L,” during the company’s Future of Compute […]

Hewlett-Packard reportedly has the executive teams in place that will help the massive tech vendor through the complex process of breaking into two separate companies. Bloomberg News, citing an internal memo it had read, reported that Chris Hsu, senior vice president of operational performance, will be the lead executive in getting Hewlett-Packard Enterprise up and […]

Chinese tech giant ZTE is joining the Open Platform for NFV project, the two-month-old industry consortium developing an open-source carrier-grade reference platform for the growing network-functions virtualization space. ZTE is joining such Platinum members like AT&T, Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and AT&T in the effort to drive adoption of NFV among service providers and enterprises. […]