Jeff Burt

Michael Dell should be looking at a clear runway to buying his namesake company and taking it private, barring any unforeseen problems. Between the agreement he reached with Dell’s board of directors earlier this month and the recent court ruling against activist investor Carl Icahn, Michael Dell will most likely see his $25 billion bid […]

Intel executives have said over the past few months that the low-power Atom platform will be the key driver in company’s aggressive push into the competitive mobile computing market, and that they will accelerate innovation around the chips. That could include speeding up the production cycle for its next-generation Atom processor, dubbed Bay Trail T, […]

Hewlett-Packard is bolstering its thin-client lineup with what officials are calling the company’s most powerful offering to date. The t820 Flexible Series thin client, announced Aug. 19, offers better performance, improved graphics and enterprise-level security capabilities, and is aimed at businesses—such as financial trading, engineering and military organizations—that need to run specialty workloads on high-performance […]

Cisco Systems is offering an 802.11ac wireless access point that can be deployed and managed through the cloud, enabling organizations to address the growing number of mobile devices connecting to the network in a faster, more secure and more manageable environment. Cisco officials Aug. 13 unveiled the Meraki MR34, the networking company’s latest offering to […]

Andrew Feldman, corporate vice president and general manager of Advanced Micro Devices’ Server Business Unit, likes to show a couple of photos to illustrate how rapid and widespread the adoption of mobile devices and cloud computing has been. The first photo shows the crowd at the papal inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. Except […]

Nvidia and Asus are the latest tech vendors to add to Microsoft’s woes over its struggling Windows RT operating system. Nvidia executives, who have seen revenues from the company’s Tegra chip business fall precipitously this year, are indirectly pointing to the poor sales of Windows RT devices as the key reason. At the same time, […]

Acer officials are going to throw more of their support and efforts behind Android-based mobile devices and Google Chromebooks and focus less on PCs running Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system. During a conference call with analysts and journalists to discuss disappointing quarterly financial numbers, Acer executives said they hope to more than double how much […]

Intel and Unisys are working together to create a secure computing platform that will enable organizations to run Windows, Linux and Unix workloads on the same platform and to more easily migrate those workloads from RISC-based environments to x86 systems. The computing platform will bring together security capabilities for mission-critical workloads from Unisys with the […]

IBM Grows Flex System Portfolio to Enable Bigger Clouds By Jeffrey Burt IBM Is Packing More Capabilities Into Its 10U Chassis This shot shows the IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis fully populated and deployed in a rack. Graphical View of Flex System Servers The upgraded Flex System Manager software gives users a graphical view of […]

ShoreTel has named a new president and CEO, three months after Peter Blackmore announced he was retiring from the unified communications technology vendor. The company on Aug. 8 named Don Joos, who has been with ShoreTel since 2011 and most recently was senior vice president of business operations, to replace Blackmore. The board of directors […]

Nvidia already makes its own handheld gaming device, Shield, and speculation has been circulating that the graphics technology vendor also has been working on a small, low-cost, 7-inch tablet that could come complete with a stylus. Now rumors are that Nvidia also is looking to build a high-end tablet that would run Google’s Android OS […]

Huawei Technologies is looking to muscle in on the U.S. networking market dominated by Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, and is unveiling a network switch line that is designed to be easily programmable and upgradable. Huawei officials on Aug. 8 introduced the S12700 series of switches, which are aimed at campus networks and built to address […]