Jeff Burt

Vidyo, which has challenged larger established video conferencing vendors such as Cisco Systems and Polycom with software-based solutions, has raised another $17.1 million in funding that officials said will be used to fuel more sales and expand the company’s reach worldwide. The new funding, which includes money from previous investors as well as new ones—including […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials have completed the restructuring of the chip maker and are expecting the company to return to profitability in the second half of the year, but admit they are still dealing with a difficult PC market. Like larger rival Intel, AMD is looking to expand its silicon into new markets, with executives […]

Intel CEO Paul Otellini, in a conference call April 16 with analysts and journalists to talk about the company’s first-quarter financial numbers, spoke about the efforts the giant chip maker has made during his eight-year tenure to expand the reach of its silicon technology. Otelllini, due to retire next month after more than four decades […]

Intel continues to get battered by the contracting PC market in the first quarter, but executives are predicting an uptick in business in the second half of the year as new systems armed with the chip maker’s upcoming “Haswell” processor hit the market, bringing with them greater capabilities and lower prices. CEO Paul Otellini—giving his […]

Dell officials are continuing to build out the company’s networking capabilities, this time with a new top-of-rack switch and new management software. The new offerings come two months after the tech company unveiled a software-defined networking (SDN) strategy that is designed to work within any model that is adopted, from network virtualization overlays to OpenFlow […]

Hewlett-Packard reportedly will have to wait longer to try to collect damages from Oracle for the software company’s 2011 decision to stop porting its applications to Intel’s Itanium platform. The trial, in which HP officials were expected to seek as much as $4 billion from Oracle for the damages they say were caused to their […]

Advanced Micro Devices executives in October 2012 said a key to turning around the chip maker was focusing its efforts on several key market areas, including low-power servers aimed at dense data centers like Web 2.0 and cloud computing environments. Microservers from the company’s SeaMicro business would be a key part of that strategy, Lisa […]

Intel, which is working to gain inroads into the highly competitive mobile device space, reportedly is joining forces with giant Chinese search engine Baidu to create software for China’s booming mobile Internet market. Included in the agreement signed April 11 by the two companies is a joint innovation lab, where developers in China will be […]

Extreme Networks officials more than a year ago launched their Open Fabric network architecture in the data center to help businesses deal with such trends as cloud computing, virtualization and mobility. Now the company is extending its Open Fabric capabilities to enterprise campuses. With Open Fabric, Extreme brought such features as high availability and low […]

Cisco Systems is working with Microsoft to offer new products designed to make it easier for businesses to virtualize their data centers, reduce complexity and leverage cloud computing technologies. Cisco is combining its Unified Computing System (UCS) converged data center solution with Microsoft’s Fast Track 3.0 architecture offerings to give businesses integrated solutions that will […]

Oracle and Fujitsu are rolling out a set of high-end Unix servers that officials said will be highly scalable and offer mainframe-like performance. The two companies, which expanded their SPARC-development relationship two years ago, announced the availability of Fujitsu’s M10 servers, which are based on that company’s 16-core SPARC64 X processors. The servers can scale […]

Hewlett-Packard’s $11.3 billion acquisition of software maker Autonomy may have become an expensive headache for the tech giant, but CEO Meg Whitman reportedly sees it as an important part of the company’s future. At a news conference in London April 10, Whitman said that she is continuing with her plans to keep the massive company […]