Jeff Burt

Aruba Networks is unveiling a range of new technologies that officials say will help organizations create a better wireless environment that will help them meet the demands of the new generation of mobile workers. Aruba on March 12 launched its Aruba Mobility-Defined Networks architecture and five software solutions designed to enable businesses to build an […]

Cisco Systems officials are out to prove that video conferencing doesn’t have to be reduced to the false choice between cost and quality. Cisco, the world’s top video conferencing technology vendor, this spring will roll out a host of new and enhanced products that officials say will not only continue to make video conferencing affordable […]

Intel and several partners, after years of development and testing, are preparing to bring optical networking capabilities to the data center that promise to send data between servers and other systems at significantly higher speeds than copper cables currently do. Intel officials, at the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) 2014 show March 11, announced that the […]

VMware is leveraging its acquisition last year of Desktone to launch a desktop-as-a-service offering that the company is providing on its own cloud service and which will compete against other DaaS solutions from the likes of Amazon Web Services. The virtualization giant is scoring a coup in the increasingly competitive DaaS space by launching its […]

Qualcomm, the world’s largest provider of chips for such mobile devices as smartphones and tablets, is rounding out its executive lineup by naming Derek Aberle as its new president. Aberle, who had been executive vice president and group president and played an important role in Qualcomm’s licensing program, takes over for Steve Mollenkopf, who earlier […]

Lenovo officials are saying the workers strike at an IBM factory in China to protest Big Blue’s planned sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo is an internal matter for IBM. However, they said in a statement released March 10 that Lenovo is not planning any cuts to pay or benefits for the 7,500 […]

CommScope is unveiling a modular data center program that officials say will enable businesses to build or expand their computing facilities without the high up-front costs and time lags associated with traditional data centers. Data center solutions providers and systems makers, from Hewlett-Packard and Dell to SGI and Cisco Systems, over the past several years […]

Server makers and Web-based companies looking to build low-power ARM-based servers are getting more support with the release of the latest version of the Xen hypervisor. The Xen Project, a group within the Linux Foundation that is pushing the development of the Xen hypervisor, on March 10 announced the availability of version 4.4 of the […]

Twenty Freescale Semiconductor employees were among the 239 passengers on board the Malaysian Airlines plane that went missing three days ago. The chip manufacturer confirmed March 8 that 12 of the employees on the plane are from Malaysia and another eight from China. Flight 370, which was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to China, […]

Dell Brings Workstations Into Age of Virtualization By Jeffrey Burt Expanding the Workstation in the Data Center Dell brought the workstation into the data center with the launch last year of the Precision R7610 rack system. Workstation virtualization expands on the concept. Making the Workstation Argument Some companies choose to run their compute-intensive workloads on […]

ROUND ROCK, Texas—Dell officials plan to leverage the company’s Wyse desktop virtualization technology and partnerships with the likes of VMware and Citrix Systems to push the concept of workstations-as-a-service. On the first day of a two-day workshop for journalists at Dell’s campuses here and in Austin, Texas, company officials on March 6 announced the first […]

The Open Networking Foundation is offering a new open networking tapping application as an educational tool for programmers as they develop solutions for software-defined networks. The organization, which promotes the development and adoption of software-defined networks (SDNs) using the OpenFlow protocol, is demonstrating the new ONF SampleTap application March 3-5 at the Open Networking Summit […]