Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard is introducing an Android-based all-in-one that can be used as a desktop PC or a tablet. HP officials unveiled the Slate 21 AIO June 24 at their HP World Tour event in Beijing, showing off a device that includes a 21.5-inch touch-screen display that can be used as a tablet or propped up with […]

Cisco Systems officials for much of the year have been talking about what they are calling the Internet of Everything. According to the networking giant, the Internet of Everything (IoE) goes beyond the more commonly known Internet of Things. The Internet of Everything certainly includes things, but it also includes people, data and processes—essentially whatever […]

Michael Dell still believes taking his namesake company private is the best chance it has to reduce its dependence on the shrinking PC market and becoming a bigger player in enterprise data centers. The company’s founder and CEO, who laid out his thoughts in a presentation June 21 to investors that also was filed with […]

Alcatel-Lucent, the embattled network equipment maker that has struggled financially since its creation in 2006, is set to undergo another companywide restructuring that is getting a cautious reception from analysts. Alcatel-Lucent is calling its latest effort the “Shift Plan,” a move to transform the company from a more general telecommunications equipment vendor to a specialist […]

The 802.11ac WiFi standard still may be months away from final ratification, but the WiFi Alliance is now beginning to certify various wireless gear based on the draft standard. The WiFi Alliance is launching its WiFi Certified ac program for such networking devices as routers and adapters, as well as smartphones, notebooks, tablets and other […]

ShoreTel officials are taking the next step in the development of the company’s hybrid unified communications solution. The company has completed the development of its technology solution for the premises-to-cloud unified communications (UC) offering—called ShoreTel Connect—and will begin testing it with customers and partners beginning this summer. If all goes well, the company will begin […]

Cisco Systems will resell Citrix Systems’ application delivery controller and integrate the technology into Cisco’s virtual networking framework, expanding a partnership around virtual and cloud networks that was first announced last year. The move comes several months after Cisco began ending development of its own ACE application delivery controller and essentially ceding the ADC market […]

Cisco Systems is buying data virtualization vendor Composite Software, the latest move by the networking giant to build up its software and services capabilities. Cisco will buy the San Mateo, Calif., company for $180 million, and is expected to close in the next calendar quarter, company officials said June 20. Composite’s data virtualization takes data […]

In a recent survey by Cisco Systems, 71 percent of the IT professionals who responded said they plan to deploy software-defined networking technology this year for a variety of reasons, from creating more programmable networks to reducing costs. In the same survey, 34 percent said that thus far, they had seen an actual deployment of […]

Startup Cumulus Networks is bringing a Linux operating system to data center networks and the burgeoning software-defined network market. The company, led by veterans from companies such as Cisco Systems, Google and VMware, came out of stealth mode June 19 with Cumulus Linux, a networking OS that is aimed squarely at established networking vendors like […]

Nvidia will license its graphics technology as officials look to more quickly expand the company’s reach into the rapidly growing range of new computing devices. Nvidia’s history has been selling its GPUs to device makers for years, primarily into PCs. However, the range of devices and systems has expanded significantly beyond PCs, to include mobile […]

Dell is still going to have to deal with Carl Icahn. After several days of speculation that the activist investor was reconsidering his bid to buy the world’s third-largest PC maker—paving the way for CEO Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buyout proposal—Icahn bought more Dell shares and urged the company to buy back 1.1 billion shares […]