Jeff Burt

Juniper Networks is shipping its software-defined networking controller, less than a year after the company acquired startup Contrail Systems in an effort to boost its SDN capabilities. Juniper executives, with help from partners and customers who had beta-tested the technology, announced the availability of the Contrail controller Sept. 16 during a Webcast event. At the […]

The OpenDaylight Project, a vendor-led effort to create an open platform for software-defined networks, is giving the industry the first details of its initial release, code-named “Hydrogen.” Hydrogen comes five months after founding members such as IBM and Cisco Systems—and the Linux Foundation, which is overseeing the project—announced the initiative, which is designed to create […]

Dell is rolling out a preconfigured video surveillance system called SecurePOD, a product from the tech vendor’s OEM Solutions unit, a group that has been around for more than 14 years but only now is making a push to raise its profile in the industry. Speaking with eWEEK at the Intel Developer Forum this week […]

Lenovo executives used the Intel Developer Forum this week as another way to push the message that they plan to become a major player in the x86 server market. The company, which has fought its way to the top of the embattled global PC market, at the IDF show in San Francisco introduced two new […]

Intel will shut down its chip-making facility in Massachusetts in a move that will mean as many as 700 job cuts. According to a report in The Boston Globe, Intel will close the fab in Hudson, Mass., by the end of 2014 as the company looks to invest its money in new and more modern […]

IDF 2013: Intel Goes Mobile With New Chips, Software by Jeffrey Burt Intel Comes to the Moscone Center For several days every September, IDF takes over all three floors of the Moscone West Convention Center, and Intel makes sure everyone in San Francisco knows it’s there. Intel Urges Users to ‘Look Inside’ Company executives talked […]

Acer became the latest server maker to announce support for Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors, which the chip maker announced Sept. 10 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Acer officials said Sept. 12 that the company is refreshing its line of Altos servers and Veriton workstations with the new “Ivy Bridge” processors, […]

At Intel’s IDF Show, Convertible PCs Take Center Stage by Jeffrey Burt Lenovo’s ThinkPad Helix Can Be Used in 4 Modes The convertible Ultrabook works as a traditional laptop, as a tablet, in a standby mode where it’s tented, and in what Lenovo calls the Tablet+ Mode for more power, ports and battery life. Dell’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Chromebooks from such system makers as Hewlett-Packard, Acer and Toshiba armed with Intel chips based on the new “Haswell” architecture will hit the market later this year, according to the giant chip maker. In addition, Asus will offer what the company is calling a Chromebox, which is a small system that also runs Google’s […]

Extreme Networks is buying Enterasys Networks in a move that officials hope will strengthen the company’s position in the increasingly competitive data center networking space. Extreme executives announced the $180 million deal Sept. 12, saying that the goal is to combine the networking assets of the two companies, integrate features of Enterasys’ operating system with […]

Glowpoint, which offers cloud-based video collaboration and support services, is now offering a reservationless video conferencing service designed to make it easier for users to collaborate on any device at any time. The service, Glowpoint Now, enables users to start and participate in meetings from a Web browser, including Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and […]

On the eve of a shareholder vote that will determine the future of his namesake company, Dell CEO Michael Dell appears to have the wind at his back. On Sept. 9, activist investor Carl Icahn gave up his long-shot bid to detail Michael Dell’s $25 billion proposal to buy the world’s third-largest PC maker and […]