Jeff Burt

The OpenDaylight Project almost eight months ago unveiled Hydrogen, the first software release in its efforts to build an open-source platform to help drive the adoption of software-defined networking and network-functions virtualization. Hydrogen came 10 months after the industry consortium was launched by such vendors as Cisco Systems and IBM, and the goal of the […]

A wide range of technology vendors and telecommunications companies—from Intel, IBM and Cisco Systems to AT&T, China Mobile and Ericsson—are creating a consortium aimed at developing an open-source reference platform to fuel the adoption of network-functions virtualization. The Open Platform for NFV Project (OPNFV), under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, will leverage what’s been […]

Advanced Micro Devices is at the JavaOne 2014 conference demonstrating Hadoop running on a server powered by an ARM-based chip. At the conference Sept. 30, AMD officials will show off a server powered by the vendor’s Opteron A1100-Series “Seattle” chip—which is based on ARM’s Cortex-A57 server platform—running Apache Hadoop, the Java-based open-source platform for big […]

Christopher Young, who spent the last three years heading up Cisco Systems’ security business, will now lead Intel’s security efforts. The giant chip maker announced Sept. 29 that Young will be the company’s senior vice president and general manager of Intel Security, reporting to President Renee James. Young had been a senior vice president of […]

Cisco Systems officials are seeing growing momentum behind the company’s Intercloud initiative—including with more than 30 new companies joining in on the effort—and the networking giant is planning to invest another $1 billion to accelerate that growth. At the same time, Cisco is rolling out new products and services for the Intercloud, which company executives […]

Lenovo on Oct. 1 will become the world’s third-largest server vendor, and will begin efforts to overtake Hewlett-Packard and Dell for the top spot, according to officials. Lenovo and IBM executives on Sept. 29 announced that, in two days, they will close the $2.1 billion deal in which Lenovo will buy IBM’s x86 server business. […]

Hewlett-Packard is unveiling two ARM-based servers as part of its Moonshot family of highly energy-efficient systems, a move that finally brings to market what the industry has been anticipating for years. HP officials on Sept. 29 announced that the company has begun shipping the new systems—including the 64-bit ProLiant m400, which is powered by Applied […]

Intel, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Others Put Power of IoT in Developers’ Hands by Jeffrey Burt Here Comes Intel’s Edison Platform During IDF, Krzanich showed off Edison, a development platform for building smart systems that leverages Intel’s Atom and Quark chips as well as integrated dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth. Products based on Edison, which will sell for […]

Officials with Amazon Web Services have begun patching a significant number of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers to deal with a bug in the Xen hypervisor, a process that will force the giant cloud services provider to reboot up to 10 percent of the systems. AWS began sending letters out to customers on Sept. […]

Cisco Systems has a new leader for its security business, naming 14-year company veteran David Goeckeler to replace Chris Young, who has left Cisco after three years. Goeckeler most recently served as vice president of product and platform engineering for Cisco’s Security Business Group for the past two years, according to Pankaj Patel, executive vice […]

Intel is investing $1.5 billion in Chinese chip maker Tsinghua Unigroup, the latest move in its effort to expand its reach in the competitive mobile processor market and a way to grow its presence in the increasingly important Chinese market. The investment, which will give Intel a 20 percent stake in the state-owned venture that […]

Hewlett-Packard officials, who first talked about its plans for an online store for software-defined networking apps about a year ago, will officially launch its SDN App Store next month. The SDN App Store will kick off Oct. 1 with eight applications—two developed by HP and six others by partners—and officials expect more apps to become […]