Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems executives continue to push the company’s transformation into an enterprise IT solutions and services provider while navigating the challenges of a rapidly changing tech industry. The company is extending its reach in the data center beyond its networking roots, but also must deal with trends and hurdles that threaten its businesses, from the […]

Startup Spark IO is expanding its portfolio of small, affordable solutions designed to help people more easily get onto the Internet of things with the unveiling of the Spark Photon, a development board that will let developers WiFi-enable their products. Spark IO already offers an open, cloud-based operating system—dubbed Spark OS—for connected devices, and the […]

Brocade two years ago introduced a new subscription model through which customers could get networking technology from the company on a pay-as-you-go basis, enabling businesses to pay for what they need and not have to spend a lot of money upfront. Now the vendor, through a partnership with Aruba Networks, is offering a broad range […]

Cisco Systems and Broadcom are launching separate initiatives to make it easier for channel partners to embrace their solutions for the burgeoning Internet of things market. Broadcom is increasing the number of its channel partners to help meet the growing demand, not only for the Internet of things (IoT) but also for Ethernet solutions. The […]

Plexxi, a startup that two years ago joined the increasingly competitive software-defined networking market, now has new leadership. Richard Napolitano, a former executive with storage giant EMC after stints with other vendors such as Sun Microsystems, was named CEO Nov. 10. Napolitano will replace founder David Husak, who will remain with the company as executive […]

SAP is rolling out a set of applications designed to enable businesses to take advantage of the massive amounts of data being collected by sensors, part of a larger push around the Internet of things the software vendor is making at its annual SAP TechEd event in Berlin. The new Internet of things (IoT) applications—which […]

Servers, PCs, Tablets on Display at Dell World 2014 by Jeffrey Burt Michael Dell Front and Center The CEO listens to John Swainson, president of software at Dell, answer a question regarding the Dell Cloud Marketplace at a press conference during the show’s first day. Running the Show Dell put the systems running the event […]

Juniper Networks, already under pressure to cut expenses and return more money to shareholders, is now undergoing its second leadership change in less than a year. The networking vendor announced Nov. 10 that Shaygan Kheradpir, who took over as CEO in January, resigned suddenly following a review by its board of directors of his conduct […]

Toshiba this month will begin sampling a new ARM-based application processor designed for wearable devices. Company officials announced the TZ1021MBG chip Nov. 10, the latest member of its TZ1000 family of ApP Lite application processors for wearable devices such as smartwatches, smart glasses, activity monitors and smart bracelets. The new product will be on display […]

Michael Dell said it didn’t take long to realize the value of markets beyond the United States. “We started the business in 1984,” Dell said during the Dell World 2014 show in Austin, Texas, last week. “In 1987, we were expanding outside of the U.S.” The CEO was talking to a group of five international […]

The organization behind the Raspberry Pi is releasing the latest iteration of the minicomputer that is smaller and even more affordable than the original. The Raspberry Pi Foundation on Nov. 10 unveiled the Model A+, a Linux-based computing board that includes many of the features of the Model A—which was introduced in 2012—including the BCM2835 […]

Mitel is increasing its bid for unified communications vendor ShoreTel to $574 million in hopes of bringing ShoreTel officials to the bargaining table. ShoreTel’s board of directors in late October rejected an unsolicited offer of $540 million for the company, saying the bid undervalued its company, which has seen revenue growth over the past several […]