Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices, in a surprise move, announced Oct. 8 that Rory Read, who had been CEO for three year, is stepping down and being replaced by Lisa Su, until now the company’s chief operating officer. In a conference call, Read said the leadership change was part of a succession plan he and the chip […]

Symantec may be the next major tech vendor to split in two, in the wake of similar moves by Hewlett-Packard and eBay. Citing unnamed people with knowledge of the matter, Bloomberg News reported Oct. 8 that Symantec officials are considering breaking the company in two, with one company focused on security and the other on […]

Edward Coleman, hired six years ago during the worst of the recession to help Unisys stem a series of financial losses, will leave the tech vendor Dec. 1. Unisys officials announced Oct. 6 that Coleman is resigning after board directors felt that a change in leadership was required. The company, which has been modernizing its […]

The AllSeen Alliance, one of several industry consortiums developing open standards for the Internet of things, is turning its attention to lights in homes and businesses. AllSeen, which launched 10 months ago, is putting together the Connected Lighting Working Group, which will develop an open framework that will enable smart light bulbs to communicate with […]

Dell and Lenovo, which in the past had been the target of Hewlett-Packard’s efforts to lure away customers during times of high-profile transitions, are taking aim at their rival in the wake of HP’s Oct. 6 announcement that it was splitting into two companies. When CEO Michael Dell announced in February 2013 that he intended […]

A startup called Highfive is looking to carve out a space in a highly competitive video conferencing market that includes large stalwarts like Cisco Systems and Polycom and a range of smaller vendors like Blue Jeans Network and Vidyo. Highfive on Oct. 7 introduced its first product, a device armed with a camera and microphones […]

AT&T is leveraging Blue Jeans Network’s cloud-based video conferencing technology as a service to its business customers. The two companies announced the partnership Oct. 7, with officials for both noting that through the AT&T Video Meetings with Blue Jeans service, business customers will be able to host video conferences on a broad range of devices, […]

VCE, the child of the partnership between VMware, Cisco Systems and EMC, is rolling out an all-flash version of its Vblock integrated infrastructure solution that is aimed at such new applications as big data, mobile computing, analytics and the cloud. VCE’s Vblock System 540 was one of several new and enhanced converged systems the company […]

Cisco Systems officials are saying that the company’s revamped WebEx platform will clean up the “confusing mess” that collaboration technology has become. The enhanced WebEx offering, which was introduced Oct. 6 and enables audio, video and Web conferencing in a single solution, removes a lot of the time-consuming and headache-inducing aspects of collaboration technologies now […]

Hewlett-Packard, the tech giant that has seen its share of struggles over the past few years, with the contraction in the global PC market and the rapid changes in the data center driven by such trends as mobile computing and the cloud, will look significantly different a year from now. HP executives on Oct. 6 […]

Hewlett-Packard executives are considering splitting the tech giant in two, with one company focusing on the PC and printer businesses and the other on corporate offerings including services, networking services. The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the plan, reported Oct. 5 that company officials could announce their intentions as early as Oct. 6. […]

For Unify CEO Dean Douglas, the last 10 months have been busy, and October looks to be more of the same. The former head of technology distributor Westcon Group was named Unify CEO in December 2013, replacing Hamid Akhavan only two months after the company changed its name from Siemens Enterprise Communications in a high-profile […]