Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard, despite problems with some high-cost and high-profile acquisitions, will continue to buy companies to grow its capabilities, according to CEO Meg Whitman. In a televised interview Aug. 22 on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” show, Whitman said the company would stay away from the massive multibillion deals it’s made in the past, focusing instead […]

Michael Dell will be trading in one headache for another if he takes his namesake company private, according to Meg Whitman, CEO of rival Hewlett-Packard. In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street show Aug. 22, Whitman was asked about the price cutting Dell was doing on some of its products, including servers, to […]

Almost two years into her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Meg Whitman is in the middle of a multiyear turnaround strategy and is now putting executives in place who she believes give the company the best chance of succeeding in an increasingly difficult and competitive environment. Whitman has already reshaped the company’s board of directors […]

Arista Networks is teaming with ExtraHop Networks to offer a joint solution designed to give organizations better and more persistent visibility into their virtualized and physical data center environments, a capability officials with both companies said is key to the adoption of software-defined networks. The vendors will demonstrate their Persistent Monitoring Architecture during the VMworld […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman says the multi-year turnaround of the tech giant is continuing to move forward, despite setbacks in the company’s latest quarterly financial numbers. HP saw its fiscal third-quarter revenues hit $27.2 billion, a drop from the $29.7 billion from the same period in 2012 as the contracting global PC market continues to […]

Another study is out showing that the software-defined networking space will be a boom market in the coming years. According to the study by Transparency Market Research released Aug. 21, the worldwide software-defined network (SDN) market will hit $3.52 billion by 2018, growing at a rate of 61.5 percent between 2012 and 2018. The numbers […]

Dave Donatelli, who oversees Hewlett-Packard’s business group that includes servers, storage, networking and other data center hardware, reportedly is being reassigned somewhere else within the company, the latest executive change made by CEO Meg Whitman. Donatelli’s reassignment Aug. 21 comes two months after Whitman removed Todd Bradley as head of HP’s PC and printing unit […]

Avaya is taking its first steps into the crowded software-defined networking space with a data center orchestration and automation framework that will be based on the OpenStack platform and the company’s own Fabric Connect technology. Avaya officials will demonstrate the company’s Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) framework at the upcoming VMworld 2013 show, which runs Aug. […]

Intel officials are moving to grow the company’s 4G LTE capabilities, a key move as they look to take on the likes of Qualcomm and gain traction in the increasingly competitive mobile chip market. The company has been driving up the energy efficiency in its low-power Atom chip platform, which is Intel’s main vehicle into […]

Dell is updating its suite of virtualization management software, just in time for next week’s VMworld 2013 show in San Francisco. The enhanced Foglight for Virtualization offerings, which Dell inherited when it bought Quest Software last year for $2.4 billion, includes upgraded support for virtualization products from VMware and the ability to sniff out and […]

Startup storage vendor Maginatics is getting some more high-level support, this time from the likes of Intel Capital. Maginatics, which is looking to offer a software-only storage solution that will address the growing movement toward cloud computing and increasingly distributed environments, announced Aug. 20 that Intel Capital—the investment arm of the giant chip maker—is among […]

Advanced Micro Devices is adding to its lineup of embedded chips with new quad- and dual-core offerings aimed at workloads that need high-performance computing capabilities. In addition, the company is making it easier for embedded designers to afford both a CPU and discrete graphics card. The moves are the latest by AMD in the embedded […]