Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems, which for more than a year has been undergoing a transformation that includes shedding underperforming businesses, reportedly will no longer develop its ACE load-balancer technology, apparently ceding the market to rivals such as F5 Networks and Citrix Systems. JMP Securities analyst Erik Suppiger wrote in a research note late last week that Cisco […]

Cisco Systems and Arista Networks are rolling out new low-latency networking switches that are aimed at such industries as high-frequency financial trading, where a premium is put on moving data between servers as fast as possible. The networking competitors are looking to differentiate themselves in a growing part of the market that is being driven […]

Mike Rayfield, the former head of Nvidia’s mobile device chip business who quietly left the company in August, will now head up Micron Technology’s efforts in developing memory chips for smartphones and tablets. Micron officials announced Sept. 18 that Rayfield, whose departure from Nvidia was kept quiet for almost a month, will be vice president […]

Dell officials are leveraging a supercomputer being built at the University of Texas at Austin to offer organizations with hyperscale data centers highly flexible and configurable servers that offer a range of power and storage options. Dell on Sept. 19 unveiled the PowerEdge C8000 series, a 4U (7-inch) share solution that will enable users to […]

Advanced Micro Devices continues the remaking of its executive team under CEO Rory Read, with the latest departures being the company’s CFO and the head of its client products business. The chip maker announced Sept. 17 that Thomas Seifert, the senior vice president and CFO who served as interim CEO for several months before Read […]

Intel’s upcoming low-power “Clover Trail” Atom chip platform will support Linux and Google’s Android operating system, but only after focusing first on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 OS. Intel executives at last week’s Intel Developer Forum reportedly caused a stir within the open-source community by saying that the Clover Trail chips, aimed at tablets, would be […]

Nvidia, which increasingly is competing with the likes of Qualcomm and Texas Instruments in the booming mobile device chip market, is going to have to do it without the man who has been heading up the company’s mobile efforts. Mike Rayfield, a seven-year Nvidia executive who has been general manager of the company’s mobile chip […]

Dell for the last couple of years has been looking to transform from a box maker into an enterprise IT solutions provider, supplementing its strong server history with enhanced management software and storage capabilities, thanks to acquisitions of such vendors as EqualLogic and Compellent. Just over a year ago, Dell officials began adding a crucial […]

Hewlett-Packard, a year out from its failed attempts at webOS-based mobile devices, is looking to make a move back into the booming smartphone space, according to CEO Meg Whitman. In an interview with Fox Business News, Whitman said that given the trend toward consumers and businesses worldwide embracing smartphones as key computing devices-including in emerging […]

Intel executives have always dismissed the idea of a “post-PC era,” which isn’t a surprise given that its processors are found in some 90 percent of desktops and notebooks and that PCs continue to be a significant part of the company’s revenues. Officials like CEO Paul Otellini have noted that while worldwide sales may be […]

Intel reportedly will release the next-generation Itanium chip later this year, and already is working on the model that will come after that. Diane Bryant, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, told Computerworld Sept. 11 during an interview at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, that the giant […]

Intel officials are pushing forward with a concept they call “transparent computing,” the idea that developers should be able to create applications that can run across multiple mobile platforms and operating systems. Renee James, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Software Services Group, outlined the idea during her keynote address Sept. 12 at […]