Jeff Burt

Aruba Networks is rolling out a new wireless LAN platform that is aimed at giving businesses greater insight and control over their mobile applications and the rapidly growing number of devices that are hitting their wireless networks. The foundation of the platform—the new Aruba 7200 Series of mobility controllers armed with new capabilities in the […]

Advanced Micro Devices is aiming for cloud providers and smaller businesses with new power-efficient Opteron server chips. The nine new Opterons, introduced Dec. 4, are based on AMD’s new Piledriver architecture and are being targeted at the midrange and entry-level segments for use in servers that can process high levels of Web-based transactions in such […]

The worldwide Ethernet switch market, which had grown in large part due to the adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology in the data center, contracted in the third quarter, with revenue dropping 4.4 percent, according to analysts with IDC. Numbers issued by IDC Nov. 30 indicated that globally, Ethernet switch revenue came in at $5.36 […]

Dell was the only top-tier server vendor in the third quarter to see sales gains in a server market that continues to see revenues decline, due in large part to an uncertain global economy, according to analysts with Gartner and IDC. In numbers released last week, Dell remained in the No. 3 position in terms […]

Alcatel-Lucent this week became the latest networking vendor to make its move into the increasingly competitive software-defined networking space, unveiling a strategy that will be based on its own Application Fluent Network solution. But as Alcatel-Lucent moves to join the growing SDN crowd, the company also is looking to differentiate itself from the pack by […]

The worldwide video conferencing market is continuing to struggle in the face of an uncertain global economy and slowing sales of expensive, high-end immersive telepresence systems, according to analysts with market research firm IDC. IDC’s third-quarter numbers, reported Nov. 29, show a trend that has continued throughout the year, as the shift in enterprise video […]

BOSTON — For ShoreTel executives here Nov. 28, the game between the Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets was a no-lose affair. On one side were the Celtics, who this year took advantage of their decision to renovate and expand their corporate headquarters in the city to install an on-premises unified communications (UC) solution from ShoreTel, […]

Cisco Systems is bolstering its network traffic management capabilities by buying Cariden Technologies, the networking giant’s latest purchase in its ongoing acquisition spree and the third company it’s bought in November. Cisco officials announced the $141 million deal for Cariden Nov. 29, saying the deal will give service providers another tool to help them speed […]

Dell officials are addressing the rising tide of the bring your own device, or BYOD, trend with enhancements to their Wyse PocketCloud software, which gives users a safe cloud-based way to access their professional and personal data through mobile devices and remote PCs. Dell, which inherited the PocketCloud apps when it bought Wyse Technology in […]

Apple reportedly is continuing to clean house after the debacle surrounding its disappointing Maps app in iOS 6. Richard Williamson, who managed the team that developed the application, was fired by Senior Vice President Eddy Cue, according to a Nov. 27 report in Bloomberg. According to “people familiar with the move,” Williamson’s dismissal is part […]

Hewlett-Packard is seeing the first investor lawsuit over the debacle surrounding the $11 billion acquisition last year of business software maker Autonomy. A week after HP executives announced that the massive tech company would have to pay an $8.8 billion charge after serious financial and accounting problems at Autonomy were unearthed, an HP stockholder who […]

Nvidia is weathering the negative impacts of the struggling PC market on graphics chips better than rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, according to market research firm John Peddie Research. In a report released Nov. 26, Jon Peddie said that while both Intel and AMD saw their unit shipments and market share decline in the […]