Jeff Burt

Dell’s complex security strategy comes down to a relatively simple—if not easy-to-achieve—single goal: Be the top single vendor of end-to-end security offerings. It’s a strategy that’s driven Dell over the past several years to invest billions in buying security firms—including SecureWorks in 2011 and SonicWall, AppAssure and Quest in 2012—to help fill out its capabilities, […]

Dropbox officials early next year will start expanding the reach of their cloud-storage solution after reaching deals with Hewlett-Packard and Acer to have their technology preloaded on the OEMs’ PCs. The company announced this week that Dropbox already is coming preloaded on some newer tablets from the device makers, and that it will come preinstalled […]

Supercomputer maker Cray is on a roll. The company on Oct. 27 announced that it had won a $128 million contract to supply supercomputers to the Met Office, the United Kingdom’s national weather service. The systems will include multiple Cray XC40 as well as next-generation XC supercomputers, and the vendor’s Sonexian storage systems. In all, […]

Microsoft, which in January contributed the server design it uses to run its massive cloud and hyperscale data center environments to the Open Compute Project, is now releasing the second generation of the server specification. Officials with the software giant made the announcement Oct. 30 during a keynote address at the Open Compute Project (OCP) […]

Lenovo has completed its $2.91 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, making the Chinese systems maker the world’s third-largest smartphone vendor and building on the promise of its officials to become a major player in all areas of computing. Lenovo officials unveiled the closing of the deal Oct. 30, 10 months after announcing its intent to […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are giving the industry a look at the company’s initial foray into what they are calling the Blended Reality ecosystem, which includes a new computing platform due next month and a 3D printing effort that is still two years away. In New York City Oct. 29, HP unveiled the Sprout immersive computing platform, […]

Cisco Systems, Freescale and other tech vendors are creating an industry consortium aimed at driving the development of 2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet technologies to help enterprises deal with the rapidly growing amount of wireless traffic running over their networks. The founders of the NBASE-T Alliance—which also include semiconductor firms Aquantia and Xilinx—want to push […]

Forrest Norrod, the longtime Dell executive who until Oct. 1 oversaw that company’s server business, will now be charged with helping Advanced Micro Devices improve the fortunes of its server, embedded and semi-custom chips business. Norrod on Oct. 27 was named senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom (EESC) business […]

Unify officials are launching the vendor’s much anticipated unified communications platform formerly known as Project Ansible, a key product introduction for a company that has undergone more than its share of change and tumult while competing in a space that includes such giants as Cisco Systems and Microsoft. Unify CEO Dean Douglas and other executives […]

ShoreTel’s board of directors has again rejected rival Mitel’s acquisition attempt, calling the $540 million bid inadequate and opportunistic. Mitel officials earlier this month went public with their Oct. 20 letter from President and CEO Richard McBee to the ShoreTel directors, saying the offer would stay on the table until Nov. 20. However, ShoreTel announced […]

Lenovo, the world’s largest PC vendor that also is looking to expand its reach in servers and mobile devices, is taking steps into the small but fast-growing wearable device market, where it will compete with a broad array of established vendors and startups. On its Website, Lenovo is showing off a wrist device called the […]

When Sanford Russell looks at the virtual desktop space, he sees a wide-open market for Nvidia. For the past decade or so, as the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has rolled out, it was hindered by having to rely on CPUs, which offered the compute power the environments needed, but not the graphics abilities, according to […]