Jeff Burt

Dell officials want to position their networking offerings as a portfolio that businesses can leverage in whatever software-defined environment they embrace. The burgeoning SDN space is beginning to gel around three “camps,” according to Arpit Joshipura, vice president of product management and marketing for Dell Networks: vendors that are approaching SDN via virtualization hypervisors; greenfield […]

More people are using more mobile devices—particularly smartphones—to do more on increasingly fast wireless networks, all of which are driving huge increases in mobile Internet traffic that will reach 134 exabytes a year by 2017, according to Cisco Systems. The 134 exabytes is equivalent to 134 times all the Internet traffic—both wired and mobile—generated in […]

The announcement by Dell executives that the company is going private in a massive $24.4 billion leveraged buyout surprised few in the industry, given the weeks of public speculation, but that didn’t slow down the pushback from competitors and some annoyed shareholders. Soon after the company announced the deal Feb. 5, officials at Hewlett-Packard released […]

Dell executives are taking the world’s third-largest PC maker private, after weeks of speculation, in an effort to enable it to ramp up their efforts to transform the company. Dell made the announcement Feb. 5, after the company’s board of directors reportedly approved the deal in a meeting the night before. In the largest leveraged […]

Dell’s much-discussed deal to go private could come as early as Feb. 4, with founder and CEO Michael Dell taking majority ownership of his namesake company, and Microsoft and equity firm Silver Lake Partners taking minority stakes, according to reports. The deal, which reportedly now involves financing from four banks, could bring the value of […]

Oracle’s attempt to end the lawsuit brought by Hewlett-Packard in the dispute over Intel’s Itanium processor platform was shot down by a California appeals court, which rejected Oracle’s request without comment. The decision by California’s 6th District Court of Appeals Jan. 31 means that the penalty phase of the trial—where a jury will decide how […]

Hewlett-Packard’s aggressive plans to revamp its Enterprises Services business and restructure the entire company are resulting in the shutting down of a site in Germany and the laying off 850 people. In a statement released Feb. 1, HP officials said the move to close the facility in Ruesselsheim, Germany, is part of a larger effort […]

Intel Labs is teaming up with researchers at the University of Texas, Carnegie Mellon and other universities to develop processors that configure themselves depending on the workload, an idea that could result in significant performance and energy efficiency gains in CPUs. In a Jan. 30 post on the Intel Labs blog, Chris Wilkerson, a senior […]

Intel is continuing its push into the mobile chip space with the launch in Thailand of a new smartphone from Acer powered by Intel’s new low-power Atom Z2420 processor, code-named Lexington. Officials from Intel and Acer unveiled the new phone, the Liquid C1 smartphone, in Thailand Jan. 31, saying they expect the $335 device to […]

Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell reportedly is considering spending as much as $1 billion of his own money to retain control of the tech vendor if it goes private. According to unnamed sources quoted by Bloomberg, Dell already owns 15.7 percent of the company, which has been hammered in recent quarters by the downturn […]

Cisco Systems is converging wired and wireless networks under its Unified Access umbrella, and is offering open interfaces that will enable businesses to hook into burgeoning software-defined networks. At the networking giant’s Cisco Live show Jan. 29, Cisco executives unveiled two new products—the Catalyst 3850 Unified Access switch and 5760 Unified Access WLAN controller—both of […]

Cisco Systems is buying Cognitive Security, a privately held network security vendor in the Czech Republic and the latest in a continuing string of acquisitions by the giant networking company. Cisco executives announced the deal Jan. 29, noting that Cognitive is working on sophisticated technologies designed to address the growing threats to IT infrastructures that […]