Jeff Burt

Intel executives are building out the company’s efforts around the burgeoning Internet of things with new and enhanced chips and plans for integrated gateways that will connect the massive numbers of legacy devices already on the market. The giant chip maker’s strategy includes new capabilities in its Atom E3800 systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), and leveraging its new […]

Toshiba is rolling out an expanded line of Intel-based notebooks aimed at the corporate market that each comes with a magnesium alloy casing and can be used with a common optional docking station. The new notebooks are designed to give businesses systems powered by the latest fourth-generation Core processors from Intel, armed with the chip […]

Embattled networking equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent will cut another 10,000 jobs as part of its larger restructuring plan to find the stable financial footing that has proved elusive during the seven years since its creation. The job cuts—as well as a redistribution of R&D money and other moves—are part of the Shift Plan restructuring initiative announced […]

Enterasys Networks is partnering with PCM, a technology solutions provider, on a joint cloud-based wireless offering that will be available to businesses via partners. The two companies unveiled the PCM Cloud Wireless Service, a cloud WiFi service that is based on Enterasys’ IdentiFi wireless access points (APs) and the company’s OneFabric management software. The cloud […]

Unisys officials want to make it easier for enterprises to shift their mission-critical workloads from expensive Unix-based systems to high-end servers running Windows and Linux. The company on Oct. 7 unveiled its latest server platform, called Forward, that combines Unisys’ s-Par partitioning technology with the virtualization capabilities on Intel’s Xeon x86 server processors to create […]

Advanced Micro Devices executives last year made a bold move when they spent $334 million to buy microserver vendor SeaMicro, which until that time had been working with larger rival Intel in developing low-power systems. Twenty months later, and AMD has made its biggest score yet with SeaMicro: Verizon is basing its new public cloud […]

Dell is ramping up its services designed to help customers migrate their systems off of Windows XP as the deadline for Microsoft ending support for the creaky 12-year-old operating system gets closer. Company officials announced Oct. 7 that Dell Services is rolling out its Windows Migration Fast Forward Service, a collection of modules for small […]

A10 Networks, which makes application delivery controllers and other network-related products, will now have at least another $80 million at its disposal. A10 officials announced Oct. 3 that the 9-year-old company got the money through its latest round of funding, led by Summit Partners. In addition, the vendor received a $35 million revolving credit line […]

Verizon officials are looking to take on the likes of Amazon, Rackspace and Google with its new Verizon Cloud platform, which the company said will offer businesses big and small greater flexibility, agility and control than competing public infrastructure-as-a-service offerings. Verizon Cloud, which will be housed in Verizon data centers around the world, will enable […]

Intel executives, just weeks after announcing the new Quark line of low-power processors, are introducing the first system to run on the chips. Intel executives on Oct. 3 introduced Galileo, a development board created with open-source hardware maker Ardiuno and aimed at do-it-yourself device makers and educational institutions. The idea is to put the Galileo […]

Oracle is unveiling new x86-based servers powered by Intel’s Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors, which the chip maker introduced in September. Oracle officials on Oct. 3 announced the Sun Server X4-2 and X4-2L, and the Sun Blade X4-2B, all running on the new 22-nanometer “Ivy Bridge” Xeons, which come in 21 models that address particular workloads. […]

Midokura, A10 Networks and Pantheon Technologies are the latest companies to join the OpenDaylight Project, a vendor-driven effort to create an open-source platform for software-defined networking. The new companies bring the number of members of the project, which is being run under the Linux Foundation umbrella, to 29. The members range from top-tier tech vendors […]