Jeff Burt

Aruba Networks is looking to help businesses deal with the growing bring-your-own-device trend by adding device and application management capabilities to the vendor’s network access control feature in its ClearPass solution. Aruba officials on April 10 unveiled Aruba Workspace, a component of the company’s ClearPass Access Management System, which the company rolled out a year […]

Intel officials say the giant chip maker will play a significant role in the way future data center infrastructures are built, operated and managed. That role will still include processors—the chip giant has an aggressive launch schedule for chips for data center systems in 2013 that include new Atom and Xeon processors—but also will increasingly […]

NEW YORK—Hewlett-Packard may have kicked off its Project Moonshot effort with longtime partner Intel, but the initiative will rapidly grow to include other chip makers, from Advanced Micro Devices to various manufacturers of ARM-based processors. HP’s Moonshot program—which will offer very dense, ultra-low-power servers aimed at helping organizations deal with the rapidly increasing storage, networking […]

HP’s Moonshot Systems Will Feature a Range of Architectures The first systems from HP will be powered by Intel’s Atom S1200 “Centerton” SoC, but later this year, other models will roll out that will be powered by other platforms, including ARM’s architecture and even Intel’s Xeon processors. Project Moonshot Promises Performance, Efficiency The systems will […]

Hewlett-Packard is beginning to ship its ultra-low-power Project Moonshot servers, with the first ones powered by Intel’s Atom S1200 Centerton chip and the promise of more systems running on other processors from the likes of ARM partners Calxeda, Texas Instruments and Advanced Micro Devices. During a Webcast event for journalists and analysts April 8, HP […]

Cisco Systems, IBM, Juniper Networks and Brocade are among the more than a dozen technology vendors that are working with the Linux Foundation to create an open-source platform for software-defined networks. The Linux Foundation and the 18 companies that are founding members of the OpenDaylight Project announced the effort April 8, comparing what they hope […]

Intel officials will be talking low-power microservers at their Intel Developer Forum this week in Beijing, including unveiling more details about “Avoton,” the next-generation Atom processor aimed at the burgeoning market segment. Executives first mentioned Avoton last year even as they prepared to launch Centerton, the first Atom system-on-a-chip (SoC) aimed at the low-power server […]

Google is opening up access to its Google Compute Engine cloud computing environment, letting customers of its Gold Support package take advantage of the infrastructure as a service. Google officials also are adding several upgrades to the Compute Engine, which the search giant introduced in June 2012 as a competitor to Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) […]

Oracle is leveraging its acquisition last year of virtual networking vendor Xsigo Systems with the rollout of its data center fabric, which the enterprise software giant is extending to its newest SPARC servers. The vendor’s Oracle Virtual Networking fabric will help enterprises speed up the performance of the applications and virtual machines while driving down […]

Juniper Networks officials are preparing to introduce new networking hardware and software aimed at helping enterprises handle the influx of mobile users and devices that are hitting their networks. The new offerings, announced April 4, are part of Juniper’s efforts to give businesses more agile networks and a more holistic view of their infrastructures as […]

Cisco Systems is continuing to build its offerings for mobile carriers, the latest move being the upcoming acquisition of small-cell manufacturer Ubiquisys. Cisco officials announced the deal April 3, saying they will pay $310 million in cash and employee-retention incentives for the British-based company. The purchases of Ubiquisys will complement other recent acquisitions the networking […]

Dell Founder and CEO Michael Dell is laying out a vision should the company go private that includes hiring more salespeople, investing even more in PCs and tablets and aiming to become the market leader in servers next year. He outlined his plans in a memo to employees that was included among other documents filed […]