Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is bringing 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities to two key switch lines, offering data center administrators a path to faster network speeds as traffic ramps up and more workloads get moved into the cloud. At the Cisco Live event in London Feb. 1, Cisco officials announced they are adding 40 Gigabit Ethernet […]

Oracle suffered a setback in its struggle with Hewlett-Packard over Intel’s Itanium platform when a judge in California threw out its claim that HP fraudulently kept information away from Oracle that would have kept the software giant from signing a deal to settle a legal dispute between the two companies. Oracle and HP have swapped […]

Cisco Networks is rolling out a new wireless access point designed to address the growing demand for fast network performance and consistent connectivity that is being fueled by the rapid growth of mobile devices and mobile network traffic. At the Cisco Live conference in London Jan. 31, company officials unveiled the Aironet 3600 Series Access […]

SeaMicro, which has been selling low-power microservers running on Intel’s Atom processors, is now rolling out its newest system powered by Xeon processors. At a press event Jan. 31, SeaMicro CEO Andrew Feldman unveiled the SM10000-XE, a Xeon-based system with the same unique designed introduced by the company in 2010 that officials say will offer […]

At a time when Intel and ARM Holdings are getting most of the press around low-power server processors, Tilera officials are continuing to push their own architecture. Tilera took its latest step Jan. 30, announcing the general availability of its latest 36- and 16-core chip, which officials said will offer the performance and energy efficiency […]

Intel officials are looking to bolster the multimedia capabilities of its chips by buying video software and a host of patents from RealNetworks. In the deal announced Jan. 26, the giant chip maker said it will spend $120 million to buy RealNetworks’ next-generation video codec software as well as 190 patents and 170 patent applications, […]

Avaya is bringing its mobile collaboration platform to Apple’s iPad, and officials said they expect to enable the unified communications technology for tablets running Google’s Android operating system in the future. Avaya announced Jan. 24 that its Flare Communicator for iPads is now available as an application in the Apple App Store, giving users of […]

Cisco Systems continues to be the dominant player in the increasingly competitive router space, and executives are looking to push that advantage going in 2012 by extending the solutions strategy they say is the company’s key differentiator. Over the past year-plus, Cisco has aggressively brought services-such as security and collaboration-onto its Integrated Service Routers (ISRs) […]

Advanced Micro Devices generated solid revenue out of it PC chip business and saw encouraging numbers from its server processors, but falling sales of its graphics products and charges the company paid related to its relationship with Globalfoundries and its restructuring plan resulted in a $177 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2011. The […]

Intel is reorganizing its management team, unveiling several moves a day after announcing record revenue for 2011. As the giant chip maker moves into its new fiscal year, it will have new leaders of its PC and data center groups, a new COO, a new CIO and a new chief product officer, and President and […]

Mellanox Technologies is ramping up its efforts in the burgeoning 10 Gigabit Ethernet space with a new aggressive pricing structure and an expanded channel effort. Mellanox officials are hoping to add fuel to a business that they say has doubled its market share over the past two quarters and to make its 10GbE products-from network […]

Intel just completed a year in which it hit record financial numbers, including exceeding $50 billion in revenue for the first time, despite lingering softness in the core PC market. However, it will be the giant chip maker’s performance in 2012 that will determine how it goes forward over the next few years. This will […]