Jeff Burt

David “Dadi” Perlmutter, an executive vice president at Intel who has been at the chip maker for more than three decades, will leave the company in February 2014, officials said in an Oct. 18 regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the filing, made public Oct. 23, Perlmutter will leave Feb. 20, […]

Cisco Systems officials are expanding the company’s enterprise collaboration portfolio with new offerings aimed at addressing a workplace that is rapidly evolving due to such trends as greater mobility and distributed workforces. At the company’s Collaboration Summit Oct. 23 in Boca Raton, Fla., Cisco Systems announced it is rolling out a range of new products […]

Huawei Technologies, which in August rolled out new switches designed to fit into software-defined networking environments, is now unveiling an SDN controller aimed at helping carriers deploy and manage their software-defined infrastructures. At the Broadband World Forum 2013 in Amsterdam, Huawei officials launched its SNC SDN controller, a unified software platform that Huawei officials said […]

Intel officials for several years have been talking about getting the industry to exascale level of computing by the end of the decade, and have been making moves to reach that goal, from introducing their many-core Xeon Phi coprocessors to buying QLogic’s InfiniBand business. Now the giant chip maker is looking to bring in more […]

SGI officials are leveraging the company’s high-performance computing heritage to expand their capabilities in the fast-growing area of big data. The supercomputer maker is offering new solutions that address the escalating compute and storage demands inherent in big data, giving organizations the tools to not only process and store the massive amounts of data being […]

Servergy, a data center technology vendor that makes highly energy-efficient servers, is rolling out a new line of systems under the Cleantech Server name. Servergy officials launched the first of the new Cleantech systems—the CTS1000—Oct. 21 at the IBM Enterprise Conference in Orlando, Fla. The PowerLinux systems, based on Freescale’s Power architecture, are designed to […]

Dell Moves Forward With Project Ophelia Cloud Device By Jeffrey Burt Dell’s Device Offers Big Possibilities in a Small Package Dell’s Project Ophelia device is a bit larger than a traditional USB memory stick, but it is designed to give users access to their entire PC environment. Connecting Ophelia to a Display The Wyse Cloud […]

Capital venture firms continue to invest in smaller collaboration and communications technology vendors. Teambox, a 5-year-old company that offers a cloud-based platform for everything from shared tasks to high-definition video conferencing, has raised another $5 million in financing. The Teambox announcement, made Oct. 22, comes a week after officials at Thinking Phones Networks, a unified […]

Dell officials in January announced the company’s Project Ophelia, an Android-based device a bit larger than a USB memory stick that they said will be able to turn any display into a cloud-based computer. The device—now called the Wyse Cloud Connect—appears to be getting closer to its launch. Dell has filed documents with the Federal […]

Alcatel-Lucent’s move to help businesses converge their wired and wireless networks follows similar moves by such vendors as Cisco Systems, Brocade and Juniper Networks to address such trends as BYOD, mobility, cloud computing and software-defined networking. The company’s new Unified Access offering, rolled out in conjunction with long-time partner Aruba Networks, is a nod to […]

BroadSoft is enhancing its UC-One unified communications platform to enable service providers to offer the company’s UC services via the cloud and to better secure employees’ mobile phones. BroadSoft officials unveiled the new offerings Oct. 17 during the company’s annual BroadSoft Connections event in San Diego. The announcements came a year after the vendor first […]

Acer and Lenovo are rolling out new tablets that are running Microsoft’s new Windows 8.1 operating system and are powered by Intel’s latest low-power Atom chips. The new devices come as Microsoft on Oct. 17 releases its much anticipated Windows 8.1 OS, the follow-up to the radically different Windows 8, which was launched a year […]