Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is buying Collaborate.com as officials look to grow the company’s mobile collaboration capabilities. Cisco will leverage Collaborate.com’s mobile collaboration application to help it gain ground in the areas of mobility and cloud computing, according to Hilton Romanski, senior vice president and head of business development at Cisco. The move comes as mobile workers […]

Intel is continuing to bolster its mobile and networking capabilities with the acquisition of the wireless infrastructure unit of Mindspeed Technologies. The move, announced Dec. 16, will bring greater digital signal processing technology into the Intel fold, a key part of the chip maker’s larger efforts to being able to put the key network processing […]

Juniper Networks is bulking up its network management, design and optimization capabilities with the $60 million acquisition of Wandl. Company officials announced the deal Dec. 16, saying it would help its service provider customers optimize the performance and cost of their networks. The deal is expected to close in January. “As our service provider customers […]

AUSTIN, Texas—It was a confident, upbeat and energized Michael Dell moving about the Dell World 2013 show here this week. Addressing the thousands of customers, partners, analysts and journalists as the chairman and CEO of his newly private company, Michael Dell sounded like a man relieved to be rid of the pressures of Wall Street […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell is looking to ramp up its investments in research both inside and outside the company. CEO Michael Dell, speaking at the Dell World 2013 show here Dec. 12, announced that Dell Ventures—the vendor’s investment arm—is establishing a $300 million fund to help startups get the money and help them develop their technologies. At […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell and Hewlett-Packard, two of the world’s top PC vendors, have been among the hardest hit by the decline of PC sales in recent years. However, while both vendors these days are touting their enterprise expertise, executives continue to stress that PCs will play key roles in the future of their companies. Since first […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell is partnering with Red Hat to jointly engineer the open-source OpenStack cloud platform for enterprise deployments and will offer it to customers on its hardware, a move that differentiates Dell from such rivals as Hewlett-Packard and IBM in the increasingly competitive cloud computing space. At the same time, CEO Michael Dell, in his […]

Dell Makes Business Case With Servers, Networking, Storage by Jeffrey Burt Welcome to Dell World 2013 Underneath the display here is the Dell data center technology running everything else on show floor. A Complete Dell Data Center The racks are holding everything from PowerEdge blade servers and Compellent storage appliances to SonicWall network security systems […]

Federal investigators are looking into allegations that Dell PCs had been sold by a third party to the Syrian regime in violation of U.S. trade sanctions. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made public Dec. 9, Dell officials said the federal government began the inquiries following a May 3 article by […]

Alcatel-Lucent is integrating support for OpenFlow and OpenStack into its OmniSwitch Ethernet offerings as officials look to expand the vendor’s software-defined networking capabilities. The new support for OpenFlow and OpenStack, announced Dec. 10, is part of Alcatel-Lucent’s larger Application Fluent Network vision for enabling enterprises to build software-defined networking (SDN)-based solutions, according to officials. It […]

The software-defined networking market will hit $3.1 billion by 2017, with half of those revenues coming out of North America, according to market research firm Infonetics Research. The firm is only the latest to forecast strong growth for software-defined networking (SDN), which promises more flexible, automated and programmable infrastructures by separating the network intelligence from […]

Qualcomm is targeting China and other emerging markets with a new midrange Snapdragon mobile chipset that features integrated 4G LTE and 64-bit capabilities. Qualcomm officials said Dec. 9 that they will begin sampling the ARM-based Snapdragon 410 in the first half of 2014, with the chipset coming out in mobile devices in the second half […]