Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard continues to expand its converged infrastructure portfolio, introducing several new solutions that include a hosted desktop offering based on its Moonshot microserver technology. The new systems, introduced Dec. 9 during the company’s HP Discover 2013 event in Barcelona, Spain, are part of HP’s larger push to offer a range of workload-optimized converged solutions that […]

Pica8 officials are looking to streamline the software-defined networking process with a starter kit designed to make it easier for enterprises and service providers to bring the various pieces together. The SDN Starter Kit, which was announced Dec. 9 and will be available Jan. 20, 2014, will address what Pica8 officials see as a key […]

Giant Chinese tech vendor Huawei Technologies continues to find itself in the middle of a global debate over cyber-security and espionage. U.S. lawmakers this week have expressed concerns about Huawei’s deal to supply broadband equipment for a project that will build a next-generation network in Seoul, the capital of U.S. ally South Korea. At the […]

Alcatel-Lucent wants to make it easier for mobile operators to locate places to site small cells in urban areas to improve the performance of their wireless networks. The networking equipment vendor is rolling out its Metro Cell Express Site Certification Program, which will create a database initially of about 600,000 places worldwide, more than half […]

Hewlett-Packard in September became the first top-tier PC maker to embed Leap Motion’s gesture control technology directly into the system. The vendor rolled it out with the Envy 17 Leap Motion Special Edition (SE) notebook, which offers the gesture control technology in the device’s palm rest. Even though it has a traditional keyboard, Envy 17 […]

Cisco: SDN, Collaboration, Internet of Things to Drive Future Trends By Jeffrey Burt The Internet of Everything Will Continue to Grow Cisco has been among the key evangelists of the Internet of things. Executives have been talking about it for several years, and in October the company created an IoT business unit. The growing connections […]

Silver Peak wants to make it easier for businesses to ensure the performance of their applications on hybrid wide-area networks. The company is rolling out its Dynamic Path Control technology, which leverages real-time network intelligence to find the fastest, most reliable and most available path for an application, according to company officials. The technology comes […]

Unify—the unified communications company formerly known as Siemens Enterprise Communications—now has a new CEO. Dean Douglas, currently president and CEO of technology distributor Westcon Group, will take over Jan. 16, 2014, replacing Hamid Akhavan, who became CEO in 2010. Akhavan oversaw the three-year transformation of Siemens Enterprise Communications into Unify and the development of the […]

Intel officials see a significant growth opportunity to bring the company’s Intel Architecture into a rapidly evolving networking space. Enterprises, cloud service providers and telecommunications companies are looking for flexible and efficient networking infrastructures that are faster, more scalable and more cost-effective than what is available now, according to Rose Schooler, vice president and general […]

Hewlett-Packard continues to lead a relatively stagnant global server market, which saw shipments grow but revenues fall in the third quarter, according to Gartner analysts. HP and Cisco Systems were the only top-five vendors to see their revenues grow during the quarter, while HP and Huawei Technologies were the only ones to see the number […]

Spending on IT infrastructure in general and servers in particular will slow over the next two years as virtualization becomes more prevalent in data centers, with enterprises shifting their focus to software, according to a recent report by TheInfoPro. Businesses over the past several years have pushed to deploy server virtualization technology in the data […]

Huawei Technologies is done trying to sell telecommunications equipment in the United States. The massive Chinese technology company, which for several years has come under the scrutiny of U.S. lawmakers and regulators who believe that Huawei’s alleged close ties to the Chinese government make it a security risk in this country, will still sell other […]