Jeff Burt

Cyan officials are saying they are making strides in the increasingly competitive software-defined networking space. The company completed its IPO in May, and Chairman and CEO Mark Floyd spoke with analysts and journalists Aug. 6 in its first earnings calls as a public company. The company saw revenues come in at $31.7 million, a 37 […]

Nokia’s takeover of the Nokia Siemens Networks will lead to a name change for the company and reportedly more lost jobs. Nokia officials in July announced the company was buying out Siemens’ share of the embattled six-year-old wireless networking company for about $2.2 billion, a move that had been months in the making after Siemens […]

Overall PC sales worldwide may be shrinking the face of the growing popularity of mobile devices, but in the PC gamer segment of the industry, business appears to be booming. In a report issued Aug. 7, Jon Peddie Research said gamers are continuing to buy and build the fastest and most powerful high-end systems they […]

Tenable Network Security is releasing a stand-alone version of its real-time networking monitoring technology to help organizations deal with the security concerns arising from such trends as bring-your-own-device and virtualization. Tenable at the end of the month will make its Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS), which until now had been available to customers using Tenable’s SecurityCenter […]

Cisco Systems and Nvidia are making moves in the growing market for connected cars, a space that is continuing to attract major players in the tech industry. Cisco officials, with their counterparts at European automotive supplier Continental, on Aug. 6 demonstrated a joint proof-of-concept connected car that included networking technology that featured high-speed connectivity and […]

IBM is using an ARM-like approach with its Power chip architecture as it looks to take on Intel and its ambitious plans to grow its reach in the data center. Big Blue will license its Power processors to other companies, enabling them to build their own servers, networking systems and storage appliances based on IBM’s […]

IBM officials are unveiling new Power- and x86-based servers to the company’s Flex System lineup to help enterprises and service providers that are shifting more workloads to the cloud to consolidate their data center infrastructures while making them higher performing and more scalable. The company is offering three new systems that run on its Power […]

The Ethernet networking technology was already 10 years old when PC Week was growing rapidly in the midst of the IBM PC boom. In May 2013 it celebrated its 40th birthday, and today it remains unchallenged as the dominant networking system in the world, connecting an estimated 90 percent of all devices, from PCs to […]

Carl Icahn may still be trying to spike Michael Dell’s bid to buy his namesake company, but even if the deal goes through, the billionaire investor stands to make a lot of money Icahn bought 4 million more shares of Dell stock Aug. 1, giving him 8.9 percent of the company—about 156.6 million shares—and making […]

The young workers raised on technology who came into the marketplace less than a decade ago are beginning to move up the corporate management ladder, and they’re expecting to be able to use high-quality, business-class video communications in their jobs, according to a survey by Cisco Systems. The results from the Global Young Executives’ Video […]

Oracle has been keeping its focus on IBM since buying Sun Microsystems and its SPARC hardware business in 2010. Over the past three years, when Oracle has rolled out its engineered systems, such as its Exadata database machine that optimizes the hardware with Oracle’s database software, officials have used IBM as the foil, usually detailing […]

Hewlett-Packard reportedly is receiving interest in its low-power Project Moonshot microservers from a number of big-name companies, including Apple. At the same time, Chile’s largest IT services provider, Synapsis, recently announced it is beginning to deploy HP’s Intel-based Moonshot servers into its data center infrastructure, with officials noting significant savings in both floor space and […]