Jeff Burt

Intel is adding to its networking efforts by buying LSI’s Axxia networking business from Avago Technologies for $650 million. The deal, announced Aug. 13, comes three month after Avago, which makes analog semiconductor devices, completed its acquisition LSI for $6.6 billion. Avago bought LSI to boost its presence in the storage chip space and is […]

Cisco Systems will cut 6,000 jobs and pour the money saved into growth areas as the networking giant continues its transformation into an IT solutions provider in a rapidly changing industry. Cisco CEO John Chambers, in a conference call with analysts and journalists Aug. 13 to talk about the company’s recent quarterly financial numbers, said […]

Intel is developing a big data analytics platform that will leverage wearable devices, an Intel-based cloud architecture and Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to help in the research around Parkinson’s disease. Intel and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) on Aug. 13 announced a multi-phase program that will collect data from smart wrist devices […]

ShoreTel has been expanding its unified communications capabilities into the mobile arena since it bought Agito Networks in 2010. The company is now giving its ShoreTel Mobility offering a major update, including extending the video conferencing capabilities available in its desktop solutions to mobile devices. ShoreTel Mobility 8 leverages the ShoreTel Mobility Client, which enables […]

Juniper Networks is rolling out a new line of Ethernet switches aimed at helping enterprises deal with the increasing demand for better and faster access to cloud services and applications such as unified communications and virtual desktop infrastructures. Juniper’s new EX4600 switches, announced Aug. 13, are open and scalable, and offer high performance in a […]

Michael Dell announced on Twitter in July that his namesake company would let customers buy Dell products using Bitcoins, making the tech vendor one of the largest businesses to accept the digital currency. A month later, the Dell CEO said on Twitter that the company had received an order for PowerEdge servers worth more than […]

Lenovo is introducing a new line of workstations that are designed not only to give users more power and flexibility in their systems, but also make them easier to use and keep cool. At the SIGGRAPH 2014 show Aug. 12 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Lenovo officials unveiled the latest additions to its ThinkStation P Series […]

Nvidia officials, eight months after launching its 32-bit Tegra K1 mobile chip, is giving details about the upcoming version that will include a custom-designed ARM-based CPU and bring PC capabilities to such mobile devices as tablets. At the Hot Chips 2014 conference this week in San Jose, Calif., Nvidia officials said the 64-bit Tegra K1 […]

Google and NEC are part of a larger group of tech and communications companies that is spending $300 million to run an underwater high-speed Internet cable between the United States and Japan. The Trans-Pacific cable will have landing points in the United States in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. There will be […]

Riverbed Technology is updating its network planning portfolio with three new capabilities that company officials said will make it easier for network administrators to troubleshoot their infrastructures and increase availability. The vendor on Aug. 11 announced upgrades to its SteelCentral Network Planning and Configuration Management (NPCM) lineup, unveiling SteelCentral NetAuditor, NetPlanner and NetCollector. The new […]

HILLSBORO, Oregon—Intel executive Rani Borker paced in the front of the room sporting a small button pinned to her that read “I Love My Llama.” While Borker, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Product Development Group, spoke, the 15 or so journalists and analysts seated in front of her passed around Llama Mountain, a […]

Growing industry trends such as mobile and cloud computing, video and bring your own device are putting increasing pressure on Internet service providers to provide more bandwidth to handle the workloads. Many ISPs are responding by trying to replicate what Google is doing via its Google Fiber initiative. However, startup Mimosa Networks is looking to […]