Jeff Burt

Cumulus Networks co-founder and CEO JR Rivers says that the massive Web-scale businesses that have grown up with a cloud mindset see what his company is aiming for with its Linux-based networking operating system. “Whether they’re customers or not, they completely understand what we do, why we’re doing it, and it makes sense to them,” […]

BroadSoft is unveiling enhancements to its unified communications platform aimed at increasing end-user productivity on both the individual and group levels. The new features in the UC-One platform were announced Oct. 13 during the company’s three-day BroadSoft Connections 2014 user conference, where officials also unveiled an online development lab to fuel innovation around WebRTC, which […]

NEC is pushing to make it easier for businesses to embrace software-defined networking. Company officials on Oct. 13 announced that, as part of the launch of Version 6 of NEC’s ProgrammableFlow SDN Networking Suite, the company is offering a new pricing model for the portfolio’s SDN controller that is based on capacity and starts at […]

Pica8 kicked off a busy week in the increasingly competitive software-defined networking space, making moves that officials say will help fuel the adoption of Linux-based OSes on bare-metal switches. The company announced Oct. 6 that it was embracing the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE), which enables businesses to more easily load a network OS on […]

Count Riverbed Technology among the tech companies looking to restructure in the face of disappointing financial numbers. Executives with the company, which is looking to grow beyond its WAN optimization roots into more of an application performance infrastructure vendor, said Oct. 9 that it has begun a restructuring effort in hopes of cutting $20 million […]

For HP, Symantec, Others, Breaking Up Can Be Hard to Do by Jeffrey Burt HP Finally Makes the Move Within 12 months, HP will become HP Inc., which will sell PCs and printers, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, an IT solutions vendor. CEO Meg Whitman said the restructuring efforts of the past few years made the company […]

A key EMC investor is ramping up the pressure on the data storage vendor to shed its 80 percent stake in VMware in the wake of Hewlett-Packard’s announcement that it was breaking up the tech giant in hopes that two independent companies will be more successful in their respective markets. Two days after HP CEO […]

Juniper Networks officials, pointing to softer demand from service providers for the company’s products than expected, said third-quarter financial numbers will come in lower than originally forecast. The company said Oct. 9 that revenues will come in between $1.11 billion and $1.12 billion, below the networking vendor’s previous guidance of $1.15 billion to $1.2 billion. […]

Symantec is joining the growing ranks of large tech vendors that are breaking apart in hopes that creating two more narrowly focused companies will lead to greater success in their respective markets. Symantec executives on Oct. 9 confirmed reports this week that the company will split into two publicly-traded companies, one concentrating on security software […]

The WiFi Alliance is adding more capabilities to its Passpoint initiative, which is designed to make it easier for mobile device owners to move from one WiFi hotspot to another. The group launched Passpoint two years ago as a way to address growing user demand for better access to WiFi networks and to give businesses […]

The global PC market continues to improve as tablet sales flatten, and the largest vendors are seeing most of the benefits from the upswing. Third-quarter numbers from IDC and Gartner analysts Oct. 8 show that the sales declines that have haunted the worldwide PC market for the past three year are slowing significantly, due in […]

Dell officials say the company is seeing growing momentum behind its Open Networking initiative, a key part of the tech vendor’s larger ambitions to be a top-tier enterprise IT solutions and services provider. The company over the past several years has bought several companies—such as Force 10 Networks three years ago—in an effort to bolster […]