Jeff Burt

The Open Networking Foundation in January, in an effort to encourage more small companies and startups to join the software-defined networking consortium, dropped its membership fee and created a new category for these businesses. According to the group, the move worked. In the past five months, 24 startups have joined the ONF, which is one […]

Unisys is getting ready to release a dozen new ClearPath high-end servers armed with a fabric architecture. These will be based on Intel’s Xeon server processors and will enable users to run legacy applications based on the vendor’s OS 2200 and MCP operating systems while also supporting Windows and Linux software. The new architecture and […]

Oracle reportedly is in the process of finalizing a deal to buy hospitality technology vendor Micros Systems for $5 billion, the latest move by the enterprise software giant to build out its cloud computing capabilities. Oracle and Micros are negotiating exclusively, though the deal could still fall through, according to anonymous sources quoted by Bloomberg […]

Cyan is adding a new application for its software-defined networking platform designed to help service providers more quickly spin out services from both their physical and virtual networks. Company officials on June 17 unveiled Planet Orchestrate, software for its Blue Planet carrier-grade SDN platform that brings together wide-area network (WAN) automation and management and SDN […]

Cisco Systems is continuing to build out its portfolio for cloud service providers with plans to buy Tail-f Systems, a small Swedish company whose software makes it easier for operators and enterprises to manage multivendor networks. Cisco officials announced the $175 million deal June 17 and said they expect the acquisition to close by the […]

Cisco Systems is extending the deadline for submissions for its Internet of things security contest, giving interested parties another two weeks. Cisco announced its IoT Security Grand Challenge at the RSA 2014 show in March, offering $300,000 in prize money to people who come up with the best security-related solutions and approaches for the Internet […]

Google is introducing new networking and storage capabilities to its global cloud platform that officials said will make it easier for organizations to move workloads between data centers and to scale and run their operations. The Web giant announced the new capabilities—HTTP load balancing and persistent flash storage—June 16, about a week before Google kicks […]

ThingWorx and its parent company, PTC, are the latest members of the 3-month-old Industrial Internet Consortium, a group founded in March by the likes of Cisco Systems, Intel, IBM and AT&T to help accelerate the development of the Internet of things. The addition of ThingWorx—which has developed a platform for building and running applications for […]

Hewlett-Packard officials already are looking to set the tone in cloud computing infrastructure with their small Moonshot microservers, which CEO Meg Whitman has called as important a step in the server industry as the transition from mainframes to Unix and x86 system. At the company’s HP Discover 2014 show last week, company officials also announced […]

Fujitsu Laboratories is introducing a circuit that officials said could significantly speed up the performance of servers and supercomputers that are under increasing pressure from cloud computing environments to process data more quickly. The circuit will be able to move data between CPUs in the system at 56 gigabits per second, leveraging a new architecture […]

Three out of four Americans have no idea what the Internet of things is, but they get pretty excited about the idea when told what it entails, according to a recent survey. Cars and smart home appliances are the most highly anticipated applications of Internet-enabled consumer technologies, and about 77 percent of those surveyed, once […]

SevOne is leveraging technology inherited with its acquisition in March of RapidEngines in a performance monitoring appliance that includes log analytics capabilities, the first of its kind in the industry, according to company officials. SevOne currently offers a range of scalable performance monitoring platforms that enable IT administrators to monitor the performance of their data […]