Jeff Burt

Juniper Networks is enhancing the speed and capacity of its MX Series 3D routers with new line cards and a switch fabric module that officials say will more than double some of the router platforms. The year-old MX Series is part of Juniper’s larger software-defined networking (SDN) initiative, with the routers being enabled via the […]

VMware is expanding its desktop virtualization capabilities with the acquisition of Desktone and its cloud-based desktop-as-a-service offering. The Desktone acquisition enables VMware to offer an alternative to customers who might not want to invest in the upfront or ongoing costs associated with the vendor’s on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution. It also gives VMware a […]

Lenovo, which is looking to grow its presence in the worldwide x86 server market, is rolling out two new systems armed with Intel’s latest Xeon E5 chips and aimed at a range of cloud and virtualization workloads. Lenovo officials, who unveiled the ThinkServer RD540 and RD640 Oct. 16 at the EDUcause 2013 educational IT conference […]

Freescale Semiconductor officials say they leveraging ARM’s architecture to bring the efficiency and performance of smartphones into enterprise networks. The chip maker on Oct. 16 unveiled its new ARM-based QorIQ LS1 lineup of communications processors to address the growing demand for network bandwidth brought on by the rise in the number of smart connected devices, […]

Tilera officials are looking to leverage their low-power processor technology to speed up networking and big data workloads in systems running x86 chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The company is rolling out its Tile-IQ chip family of chips that can be housed in adapter cards that are then put into x86-based servers. The […]

Intel officials over the past few months have released a slew of new chips for everything from tablets to traditional PCs to servers. Now they’re expecting those new chips to pay off. In a third quarter that saw flat revenues and profits when compared with the same period in 2012, the giant chip maker saw […]

Alcatel-Lucent’s plan to cut another 10,000 jobs is touching off worker protests in France while the embattled company’s CEO argues that without substantial expense reductions and job cuts, the networking equipment vendor may not survive. CEO Michael Combes and other company officials on Oct. 8 told its European works council about the planned layoffs and […]

Broadcom officials are promising server-class, 64-bit chips based on the ARM architecture that will be aimed at networking infrastructure, as well as communications, big data, storage and servers. Broadcom will use ARM’s upcoming 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture license to build the system-on-a-chip (SoC), which will be optimized for network functions virtualization (NFV)—which, along with software-defined networking […]

Avaya is rolling out an aggressive expansion of its unified communications offerings that touches on everything from the cloud and midmarket businesses to application development and text messaging. The new and enhanced offerings, announced Oct. 15, are part of Avaya’s six-year-old effort to transform itself from a telecommunications company to one that provides open communication […]

Siemens Enterprise Communications is now Unify, a rebranding effort three years in the making. At simultaneous events in New York City and Munich, executives with the unified communications company unveiled the new name and released more details of Project Ansible, a UC platform first introduced in June. Along with the events in New York and […]

Embattled mobile device maker BlackBerry is looking to reassure customers and partners of the company’s continued viability even though its future remains uncertain. Officials with BlackBerry, which in September reached a deal to go private and has since seen reports about various tech vendors that may be interested in buying parts or all for the […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is putting a harsh light on the rapidly changing competitive landscape fueled by such trends as cloud computing, mobility and hyperscale computing. Speaking to financial analysts Oct. 9, Whitman said she was confident in the progress her company was making in its five-year turnaround effort, adding that she expects greater stabilization […]