Jeff Burt

Avaya officials are looking to bolster the company’s cloud and contact center capabilities with the acquisition of ITNavigator, an Israeli firm that offers a range of social media monitoring, reporting and management tools. According to Avaya officials, who announced the deal Oct. 1, the ITNavigator will be run as a wholly owned subsidiary, contributing further […]

Cisco Systems surprised some industry observers in August when, despite healthy hikes in revenue and profits the previous quarter, executives announced the company was cutting 4,000 jobs, or about 5 percent of its workforce. During a conference call with analysts and journalists to discuss those financial numbers, CEO John Chambers said the networking giant needed […]

Michael Dell has gotten the regulatory approvals to move ahead with his plan to buy the namesake PC maker for about $25 billion and take it private. The company announced in a brief statement Oct. 1 that “it has received all necessary pre-merger regulatory clearances for the consummation of the merger transaction,” in which Michael […]

Aruba Networks officials are looking to give enterprises and midsize businesses a cloud-based WiFi network management solution that won’t force them to sacrifice performance and other functionality. The company on Oct. 1 unveiled its Aruba Central cloud-based management service, along with new Instant access points (APs), that will bring greater speed, reliability and affordability to […]

Cray officials are bringing Intel coprocessors and graphics accelerators from Nvidia to their XC30 supercomputers, the latest step in the company’s 7-year-old Adaptive Supercomputing initiative. The initiative, introduced in 2006, was launched to create a unified supercomputer architecture that can support a range of processing technologies. The introduction of support for Intel’s Xeon Phi coprocessors […]

Lenovo and Acer are growing their respective all-in-one PC portfolios with new systems that are going in opposite directions, at least in regard to their screen sizes. Most all-in-one (AIO) systems in the increasingly competitive market have display sizes in the 21- to 23-inch range. However, Lenovo, the world’s top PC vendor, on Sept. 30 […]

Intel reportedly is growing its security software capabilities by acquiring Sensory Networks, whose technology maps networks to find patterns and detect security problems like spam and malware. Intel spokespeople have confirmed the acquisition of the 11-year-old company, but declined to discuss financial aspects. Sources have told The Wall Street Journal that the price was about […]

Hewlett-Packard is making an aggressive move to create an ecosystem around its software-defined networking efforts by unveiling an SDN developer kit and its SDN App Store, making the moves more than a month before rival Cisco Systems is expected to announce technology from its SDN “spin-in” venture Insieme. Along with the developer kit (SDK) and […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, sitting on stage at a conference in 2007 with Microsoft’s Bill Gates, first raised the idea of a “post-PC” era, a time when the traditional PC would no longer be the center of a user’s universe. Instead, more mobile, function-specific devices would come into play, and would make computers much more […]

Cisco is adding to its United Fabric Data Center portfolio with the addition of the Nexus 3100 line of switches, the second generation of the Nexus 3000 series of top-of-rack switches that was introduced in 2011. The new Nexus 3100 offerings, introduced Sept. 30, include two switches that are designed to be both scalable and […]

Intel’s hope of getting its Internet TV service up and running by the end of the year reportedly is in doubt. According to reports by Bloomberg and AllThingsD, Intel officials are talking with representatives from Samsung and Amazon in hopes of getting help for the chip maker’s “over-the-top” television service. Intel executives have been talking […]

Now that Nokia has bought Siemens’ half of the companies’ joint venture and has agreed to sell its handset business to Microsoft, company officials now must figure out how to better compete in the wireless networking market with Ericsson and Huawei Technologies. According to reports, Alcatel-Lucent may be an answer. Nokia’s board of directors has […]