Jeff Burt

Juniper Networks officials, under pressure from shareholders to make changes to its business operations, is unveiling a new plan that calls for streamlining its product portfolio, reducing operating expenses and returning more money to investors. Shaygan Kheradpir, who took over as CEO of the networking technology vendor in January after being hired in November 2013, […]

At the Intel Developer Forum in 2001, Paul Otellini stood on stage and showed off a Pentium 4 desktop PC chip running at 3.5GHz. At the time, Intel’s fastest chip ran at 2GHz, but the company’s plans called for a rapid increase in the frequency of its processors. “Yesterday, we showed a 2GHz processor,” said […]

Hewlett-Packard executives reportedly are looking to settle an investor lawsuit over its troubled $11 billion acquisition of software maker Autonomy. Citing unnamed sources close to the situation, both Bloomberg and Re/code reported that lawyers for both HP and the shareholders’ group met in San Francisco on Feb. 18 and that other meetings were scheduled for […]

Broadcom is readying a chip with global location capabilities that will give people with wearable devices like fitness trackers and smartwatches more accurate activity and location results. Broadcom officials on Feb. 20 announced what they said is the industry’s first Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) chip, which they will put on display at the Mobile […]

Genband, which significantly grew its reach in the competitive unified communications space when it bought Nortel Networks’ voice over IP business in 2010, is continuing to add to its portfolio with the acquisition of uReach Technologies. uReach offers a range of unified communications (UC) solutions—from unified messaging and calling to voice messaging, video communications and […]

Alcatel-Lucent, which is continuing its transition from a hardware-based networking vendor to one that offers cloud-based software, is offering mobile operators virtualized network functions that can be accessed via the cloud. The company wants to make it easier for mobile operators to embrace network-function virtualization (NFV) as a way to more quickly spin out services […]

Intel Aims High With Xeon E7 v2 Chips as Server Makers Sign On by Jeffrey Burt Intel’s Xeon E7 v2 Brings Better Performance to Servers According to Intel’s Bryant, the new Intel chips offer twice the performance of the previous generation, more than twice the in-memory processing capabilities and four times the I/O capacity. More […]

Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems are among the almost two-dozen server makers offering new and enhanced systems that will be powered by Intel’s new high-end Xeon E7 v2 processors. Intel’s new 22-nanometer chips, based on the Ivy Bridge architecture and designed to bring twice the performance, three times the memory and four times the I/O […]

Intel is launching the latest versions of its high-end Xeon E7 x86 processors that company officials are aiming at emerging compute- and memory-intensive workloads driven by big data and the Internet of things for industries ranging from health care to manufacturing to financial services. At the same time, Intel officials are pushing the platform as […]

Cisco Systems is introducing new virtualization capabilities aimed at helping service providers continue transforming their networks. Cisco officials are rolling out the vendor’s Evolved Services Platform (ESP) and two virtual service modules around video and mobility, all of which are designed to help service providers expand the use of virtualization in their networks. The new […]

Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson are introducing separate cloud-based unified communications solutions that service providers will be able to offer as a service to their enterprise and small and midsize business (SMB) customers. Officials with both companies said their offerings come at a time when businesses increasingly are looking to get more of their services from the […]

Ericsson and Ciena are partnering in an effort to enable service providers to more rapidly deploy converged IP and optical networks that leverage software-defined networking capabilities. The two companies will jointly develop transport solutions for such converged IP-optical networks and evolve those transport networks into software-defined networking (SDN) environments, they announced Feb. 14. The combination […]