Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard executives reportedly ignored warnings before it bought software maker Autonomy for $11.3 billion that the company’s financial numbers were exaggerated and tried to get out of the deal before it closed, according to a $1 billion lawsuit filed by HP shareholders earlier this month. The lawsuit, filed May 3 in U.S. District Court in […]

Huawei Technologies is looking to take advantage of the converging communications and information technologies to build a community around its wide range of products and to continue its push into the U.S. enterprise market. At the Interop 2013 show in Las Vegas this week, Huawei officials launched ICT Nation, an initiative to build a community […]

Riverbed Technology is introducing its new Stingray Services Controller, which is designed to make application delivery within data centers as flexible and agile as the increasingly virtualized resources around it. The new solution, which is being demonstrated at the Interop 2013 show in Las Vegas this week, creates what Riverbed officials are calling an application […]

Enterasys is getting into the rapidly growing software-defined networking space, focusing less on the underlying architecture and more on the applications and services that will sit on top of the infrastructure. Enterasys officials are introducing OneFabric Connect SDN, a product aimed at enabling partners to create the applications that businesses will use to leverage the […]

Citrix Systems is giving businesses an offering that officials said will enable them to securely move applications and data files from either a centralized data center or the cloud to their users’ virtual desktops. Citrix is combining the wide-area network (WAN) optimization capabilities in its Branch Repeater product with its CloudBridge offering, which connects businesses […]

Cray officials are offering a lower-cost supercomputer that is designed and priced for enterprises that may be just coming into the high-performance computing space and to help the systems maker expand its customer base. At the company’s annual user group meeting in Napa Valley, Calif., May 7, Cray officials unveiled the XC30-AC, an air-cooled supercomputer […]

Big Switch Networks, one of the leading startups in the burgeoning software-defined network space, has scored a coup by hiring away one of the key executives in rival Cisco Systems’ SDN efforts. Big Switch on May 6 announced Prashant Gandhi is now vice president of product management, overseeing the company’s Open SDN Suite, which Big […]

Intel officials, five years after introducing the first low-power Atom chips, are finally bringing a new microarchitecture to the platform, a move they say will introduce performance and power consumption advantages that will significantly exceed anything ARM and its partners can offer. Now they just have to see if the upcoming systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) with the […]

Apple’s iPhone and iPad have helped fuel the growing mobile workforce and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trends that have permeated the enterprise in the past few years. ShoreTel is now offering a docking station for the devices designed to make using them. ShoreTel on May 6 unveiled the first docking station for the Apple iOS devices that […]

Dell is building on its cloud computing strategy and larger enterprise IT solutions portfolio with the acquisition of Enstratius, whose software enables businesses to manage applications across a variety of private, public and hybrid clouds. The Enstratius deal, announced May 6, complements a number of other acquisitions Dell has made over the past couple of […]

When Juniper Networks bought startup Contrail Systems in December 2012, company officials thought it wouldn’t be until the first half of 2014 before they could release a software-based controller for software-defined networks. However, once Contrail was in the fold, Juniper officials found that they were “further along than [they initially] realized,” Brad Brooks, vice president […]

When Paul Otellini announced in November 2012 that he was stepping down as CEO of Intel, some analysts saw it as an opportunity for the giant chip maker to bring in an outsider who was unencumbered by Intel tradition and could better steer the company into new growth markets. The lengthy search for Otellini’s replacement […]