Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems, the networking giant that shuttered much of its consumer business last year as part of a larger companywide restructuring, reportedly is now looking to sell its Linksys home networking business. Based on interviews with anonymous “people with knowledge of the situation,” Bloomberg on Dec. 16 said that Cisco has retained the financial firm […]

Hewlett-Packard officials have been aggressive this year in rolling out offerings that enable service providers to offer enterprises to build their own private cloud infrastructures to leverage the cost and management efficiencies that come with cloud environments. In April, the tech giant launched what officials called the Converged Cloud, a collection of hardware and software […]

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker isn’t going to let his replacement, Meg Whitman, or any other company executives force him to take the hit for HP’s troubled acquisition of the software firm Autonomy or the larger struggles dogging the tech giant. In an email to Reuters Dec. 13, Apotheker—the former SAP CEO who was ousted […]

Juniper Networks is bulking up its software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities by buying startup Contrail Systems, a company that was founded earlier this year and had yet to make it out of stealth mode. Juniper reportedly will buy Contrail for $176 million, enabling it to bring the work Contrail had done in developing a network compiler […]

Intel officials continue to aggressively expand the reach of its x86-based processors throughout the data center as they look to offer Intel Architecture chips for every workload and to muscle out any potential challenge in servers and other infrastructure systems from ARM Holdings and others. Intel last month introduced its Xeon Phi coprocessors, aimed at […]

Pica8, one of a growing number of startups in an increasingly crowded and competitive field in the software-defined networking space, is rolling out an SDN reference architecture aimed at cloud providers. Pica8 officials, who introduced the open reference architecture Dec. 10, said cloud providers can use the solution to build their own SDN solutions. The […]

Talk of Intel and ARM Holdings usually centers on Intel’s efforts to make inroads into a booming mobile chip market currently dominated by ARM and its partners, including Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics and Nvidia. However, Intel and ARM also are edging closer to competing in the small but growing market for microservers—small, highly efficient servers aimed […]

Citrix Systems is bolstering its mobile capabilities by buying Zenprise, whose mobile device management solutions will help Citrix better address the growing trends of mobile computing and bring-your-own-device (BYOD). Citrix officials, who announced the deal Dec. 5, said they plan to combine Zenprise’s MobileManager platform with their own CloudGateway and Me@Work offerings to create a […]

Advanced Micro Devices is reducing the number of chips the company will order from foundry partner Globalfoundries over the next several quarters, the latest move by the chip maker to deal with the impact from the shrinking PC market. AMD officials announced Dec. 6 that the amended wafer supply agreement (WSA) negotiated with Globalfoundries calls […]

Intel will most likely find its new CEO from within the ranks of the world’s largest chip maker, according to outgoing CEO Paul Otellini. Otellini surprised Intel’s board of directors Nov. 19 when he announced that he would retire in May 2013, ending a career of more than 40 years with the company, the last […]

Avaya is bringing its Aura unified communications platform to VMware virtualized environments, joining other vendors like Cisco Systems, ShoreTel and Microsoft in virtualizing at least a part of their UC offerings. Avaya officials unveiled Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment (VE), a fully virtualized version of the UC platform that the communications technology vendor introduced more than […]

NoviFlow and Plexxi are the latest startups in the increasingly competitive market cropping up around software-defined networks, with both vendors coming out of stealth mode this month with products that include switches designed for SDNs. NoviFlow on Dec. 4 unveiled the NoviKit 100, a switch that officials said fully supports OpenFlow 1.1 and can hit […]