Jeff Burt

Stan Shih came out of retirement in November 2013 to become chairman of Acer, the company he founded and which had seen its financial fortunes tumble in the wake of a contracting global PC market. Shih returned in hopes of giving the embattled tech vendor stability amid a range of executive changes and efforts to […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials for the past couple of years have been touting the chip maker’s ambidextrous computing strategy, the idea of offering both its traditional x86 processors and embracing the ARM architecture to give system makers and users options in the chip platforms they use. Over the next two years, the company—which is in […]

Juniper Networks and Nokia Solutions and Networks are bundling network virtualization and cloud offerings to create a solution aimed at mobile operators. Nokia will bring its Liquid Core technology—which includes network-functions virtualization (NFV) and telecommunications cloud management and orchestration capabilities—while Juniper will leverage its MetaFabric data center architecture, which includes its Contrail software-defined networking (SDN) […]

Hewlett-Packard officials want to make it easier and more cost-effective for enterprises to build data centers. The giant tech vendor is unveiling its HP Facility-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering that essentially lets organizations avoid the millions of dollars in upfront capital costs associated with building new data centers and instead spread those costs out over a number […]

Intel continues to expand its portfolio of NUC mini desktop PCs, most recently with the launch of the first system powered by the vendor’s low-power Atom chips. The latest Next Unit of Computing (NUC) mini PC kit comes in a fanless design with an on-board Embedded MultiMediaCard (eMMC) memory and a 4-by-4-inch motherboard. Intel officials […]

Avaya and two other companies have joined the OpenDaylight Project, bringing to 35 the number of members in the vendor-driven effort to drive adoption of software-defined networking and network-function virtualization. Membership in the project, which is being overseen by the Linux Foundation, has essentially doubled since April 2013, when Cisco Systems, IBM and 16 others […]

CloudGenix is looking to bring the benefits of software-defined networking to the enterprise WAN, and the startup has $9 million in its pockets to get started. CloudGenix, which includes veterans from vendors like Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Facebook and Palo Alto Networks, came out of stealth mode April 30, announcing its vision of software-defined enterprise […]

Cisco Systems is increasing the amount of money it will invest in startups focusing on the Internet of things and other key trends in the tech industry. Cisco Investments already has a $2 billion portfolio and in January announced a $100 million effort to invest in startups involved in the Internet of everything, a concept […]

Hewlett-Packard is hoping contract manufacturing giant Foxconn can help it gain traction in the market for low-cost, low-power servers aimed at large-scale cloud service providers. The two companies, which already partner on a range of systems, including servers and PCs, announced a deal April 30 in which Foxconn will design and manufacture the systems and […]

Cisco Systems is ditching its WebEx Social initiative and instead will embrace rival Jive Software’s enterprise social networking as the networking giant looks to gain better traction in the highly competitive business collaboration space. The two companies announced May 1 that Cisco is integrating Jive’s suite of social networking solutions into its unified communications (UC) […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials are officially launching their latest low-power mobile processors for mainstream and entry-level notebooks and tablets, saying the “Beema” and “Mullins” chips not only offer greater performance and energy efficiency than comparable offerings from larger rival Intel, but also offer innovations around security, performance and power. AMD executives have been talking about […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are introducing enhancements to the company’s HP-UX operating system and new Itanium-based NonStop servers aimed at midrange enterprises, part of the giant tech vendor’s larger Project Odyssey effort. HP also on April 28 is unveiling enhancements to its Integrity-based CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX, a converged offering designed for private clouds and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) […]