Jeff Burt

Dell officials continue to focus on software as a key part of the company’s efforts to evolve into an enterprise IT solutions and services provider. The company has spent billions of dollars over the past few years buying dozens of businesses as it builds out its enterprise technology capabilities. Among the acquisitions have been Quest […]

The efforts by ARM Holdings and its partners to get their low-power chips into the data center is getting a boost with the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project deploying a compute cluster based on servers from Boston Ltd. that are powered by Calxeda processors. Calxeda and Boston officials announced the deployment May 15, calling it a […]

Dell, in the midst of a bitter custody battle that will help decide its future, will announce quarterly financial numbers five days earlier than scheduled, a move reportedly made because of anticipated poor results. Dell officials announced May 14 that they will announce earnings numbers May 16, rather than the scheduled date of May 21. […]

Hewlett-Packard is pushing back on reports that it had tried to sell its troubled Autonomy software business to enterprise application vendor SAP. The Times of London reported that SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott said during an interview that his company had been approached by HP executives about buying Autonomy, the British-based company that HP bought for […]

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman in April told reporters in London that Autonomy, the British software maker that it bought for $11.3 billion in 2011, was a key part of HP’s future despite the accounting issues that cost the tech giant another $8.8 billion in charges. That declaration reportedly came after HP executives pitched selling the […]

Dell’s board of directors wants more information from Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management before considering their pitch for buying the world’s third-largest PC maker. Icahn and Southeastern—which, combined, hold about 13 percent of outstanding Dell stock—in a letter to the board May 9 harshly criticized the $24.4 billion bid by CEO Michael Dell and […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials are saying servers based on the company’s Open 3.0 specification offer the same performance as proprietary systems from competitors but at less than half the cost. AMD announced May 13 that systems based on the Open 3.0 server motherboard—once code-named “Roadrunner”—are now available from such partners as Penguin Computing, ZT Systems […]

Michael Dell’s battered effort to buy his namesake company for $24.4 billion and take it private, which has been under siege by unhappy shareholders and competing bids since it was announced in February, is about to get more difficult. The CEO has known about the opposition from some larger shareholders since just days after the […]

It’s not easy being an IT manager these days, according to a recent survey published by Cisco Systems at the Interop 2013 show this week in Las Vegas. According to the study, IT and business leaders are working more closely than before, but there is still a gulf when aligning business needs with IT. At […]

Peter Blackmore, who has been ShoreTel’s president and CEO since coming to the unified communications technology vendor in late 2010, is stepping down. ShoreTel announced May 10 that Blackmore will retire as soon as a successor is named. The search for a new CEO is already under way, according to the company. Blackmore’s decision comes […]

Broadcom officials later this year will release a new series of chips aimed at bringing greater performance, energy efficiency and security to enterprise access points that are under siege from the growing number of mobile devices and cloud-based applications hitting the networks. The new StrataGX BCM58522 Series of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) will be optimized for 5G […]

The Facebook-led consortium that has made inroads in creating more efficient servers, storage appliances and motherboards is now turning its attention to data center networks. Members of the Open Compute Project (OCP), which just celebrated its two-year anniversary, are seeing what others have when looking at the increasingly virtualized data center: that networking continues to […]