Jeff Burt

Michael Dell and other Dell executives were vocal during the three days of Dell World 2014 this week about the critical role of the PC in the company’s larger initiative to grow the company’s capabilities as an enterprise IT solutions and services provider. In order to be an end-to-end solutions vendor, a company needs both […]

Juniper Networks is looking to make it easier for carriers and enterprises to more rapidly embrace network-functions virtualization through the introduction of a virtualized version of its MX Series 3D edge router. Juniper’s vMX 3D Universal Edge Router is software that offers the same capabilities of its hardware relative but can run on x86-based servers, […]

Mitel officials reportedly will consider upping the price of its bid for fellow unified communications vendor ShoreTel, whose board of directors late last month rejected an initial $540 million offer, calling it “inadequate” and “opportunistic.” In a report in Bloomberg News, Mitel CEO Richard McBee also said that should ShoreTel executives decline to accept the […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell officials are giving attendees at the Dell World 2014 show here a look at future innovations around PCs, such as a “smart desk” that includes multi-touch LCD screens, a digital touch-enabled workspace and a stylus. The company unveiled the concept Nov. 5 amid a range of other efforts in the PC business—including a […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Before coming to Dell two years ago, Don Ferguson over the three previous decades held high-profile positions with such top-tier tech vendors as CA, Microsoft and IBM, including playing a key role in the development of WebSphere for Big Blue. Speaking to a small group of journalists at the Dell World 2014 show here […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell is leveraging the high-end server features found in its latest-generation PowerEdge servers in a new, highly dense converged infrastructure that is designed to offer customers the flexibility needed to manage the fast-changing workloads driven by such trends as mobility, big data, cloud computing and the Internet of things. Dell officials announced the PowerEdge […]

A nonprofit group led by some of the earliest developers of software-defined networking next month will make available an open operating system for the industry, the latest effort to bring the open-source model into the software-defined networking (SDN) world. The Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab), created by researchers from Stanford and the University of California Berkeley […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Michael Dell could not have picked a better time to take his namesake company private. During a bruising eight-month campaign last year that was fiercely contested by activist investor Carl Icahn, Dell argued that by taking the company private in a $25 billion deal, he and other Dell executives could accelerate the effort to […]

Aruba Networks wants to make it easier for businesses to reach customers through their mobile devices when they’re in the building. Aruba officials on Nov. 4 unveiled the company’s Aruba Mobile Engagement solution that leverages WiFi networks and location services based on Aruba Beacons. The solution enables businesses to push notifications customized to individual customers […]

DreamHost, which has developed an OpenStack-based cloud computing platform, is spinning out the network virtualization technology used in that platform into a new company called Akanda. The startup announced its debut Nov.3 at the OpenStack Paris Summit 2014. DreamHost officials have been using the networking platform internally for almost two years in their DreamCompute cloud […]

The Internet of things promises to be a boon for many tech vendors; IDC analysts have said revenues tied to the IoT could hit $7.1 trillion by 2020. Those vendors that sell semiconductor products around processing, communications and sensors will benefit significantly over the next year, due in large part to innovation in the automotive […]

Midokura, a 4-year-old startup in the highly competitive network virtualization space, is open sourcing its MidoNet solution in an effort to further accelerate the adoption and development of the networking technologies within the OpenStack cloud orchestration platform. Midokura officials on Nov. 3 at the OpenStack Summit in Paris announced the company’s plans to make MidoNet—the […]