Jeff Burt

Intel is quietly adding to its networking capabilities, buying a small software company whose products enable telecommunications companies and cloud service providers to offer more services on their networks. Aepona is based in Ireland and has more than 300 employees in offices in Belfast and Dublin, as well as the United States and Sri Lanka. […]

Hewlett-Packard’s move to create a business group focusing on converged infrastructures is the latest proof point of the growing demand for such offerings as businesses look for improved performance, lower costs and easier deployment in their data centers. HP officials announced April 29 that the company’s Converged Systems unit will look to create purpose-built solutions […]

With their next-general Core “Haswell” chip, Intel officials are aiming for improved performance and energy efficiency. They also expect significantly improved integrated graphics capabilities, bringing Intel closer to the level of Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia, a key consideration when device users want to run such workloads as high-definition video and games. In a slide […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials are hoping that the company’s ability to build unique processors for customers will lessen its reliance on the contracting PC market and help it get back to profitability. AMD executives, including CEO Rory Read, have been talking about embedded and semi-custom chips as being a cornerstone in the turnaround of an […]

Intel, after a lengthy search and months of speculation over whether the board of directors would look outside the company, has named Chief Operating Officer Brian Krzanich as the chip maker’s next chief executive, taking over later this month when Paul Otellini steps down. The 52-year-old Krzanich, who has been with Intel since 1982, will […]

Arista Networks is launching what officials said is the industry’s fastest data center switch that will help enterprises and service providers scale their networks to more than 100,000 servers. Three years after releasing the 7500 switch, Arista officials are rolling out the 7500E, which offers 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 40GbE and 100GbE ports and significant improvements […]

Nvidia has a new executive in charge of its key Tegra processor group. Deepu Talla, who came to Nvidia earlier this year from Texas Instruments, is replacing Phil Carmack, who spent the last 10 years helping the company build the Tegra systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) and the $750 million business around them. Carmack is the new CEO […]

Brocade is leveraging the technology it inherited after buying Vyatta last year in rolling out a virtual router as part of a larger effort to create highly flexible, programmable and virtualized networking infrastructures. Brocade’s Vyatta 5400 vRouter portfolio is a key part of the vendor’s On-Demand Data Center initiative, which is designed to marry the […]

Intel, as it prepares to unveil its next-generation Core “Haswell” chip for tablets and notebooks in early June, is reportedly preparing to outline the new architecture that will be the underpinning of upcoming low-power Atom chips that will begin appearing in devices later this year. Intel officials are expected to talk about the “Silvermont” architecture […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out new hardware and software offerings that will make up the foundation of its new data center network fabric and bolster the vendor’s software-defined networking efforts. The products announced April 30 include new data center switches that offer greater automation and scalability, enhanced virtualization performance and a less complex networking architecture, technologies […]

Flotek Industries over the last dozen years or so has grown from a smaller, U.S.-based oil field logistics and products vendor to an international business with more than 400 employees on the move and dispersed around the globe. Much of that growth was fueled by an array of mergers and acquisitions, which brought with them […]

Cisco Systems is expanding its portfolio of wireless products that support the 802.11ac WiFi standard, which officials said will help businesses address the growing demand for network bandwidth brought on by the growing number of employee-owned mobile devices and bandwidth-intensive workloads like high-definition video and Web conferencing. Cisco’s new products, announced April 30, come more […]