Jeff Burt

Midokura raised another $20.4 million in financing for its network virtualization technologies as the company looks to grow in a highly competitive market. The Series B funding, announced June 8, came from Japanese firm Simplex and current investors Innovation Network Corp. of Japan and Allen Miner, who also is on the company’s board of directors. […]

Polycom has received a revised offer from an unnamed private equity firm looking to buy the video conferencing technology vendor. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) June 8, Polycom officials said the revised bid from the entity previously referred to as “Sponsor 1” puts the price for the company at about […]

Four Cisco Systems executives best known for leading the company’s unique “spin-in” strategy that led to the development of products including its answer to software-defined networking have now become the latest officials to leave the giant networking vendor. Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero and Soni Jiandani—who had been nicknamed “MPLS” because of their initials […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise officials want to get open-source developers involved early with the development of the company’s reworking of data center computer architectures that they are calling the Machine. At the tech vendor’s Discover 2016 conference in Las Vegas June 7, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched an open-source community page that will give developers access […]

The rapidly increasing number of Internet users worldwide and the proliferation of personal devices and machine-to-machine connections will drive steep growth in global IP traffic, which will almost triple over the next five years, according to Cisco Systems officials. According to the networking vendor’s latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) for 2015 to 2020, IP traffic […]

EMC shareholders next month will get the chance to vote on Dell’s proposed $67 billion bid for the storage vendor. EMC officials have set July 19 as the date for the special meeting, which will begin at 10 a.m., according to the company. The meeting will take place at EMC’s headquarters in Hopkinton, Mass. The […]

Lenovo officials are continuing to partner with other tech vendors and software makers as they expand the company’s data center infrastructure portfolio. The company on June 6 unveiled new server, storage, networking and hyperconverged infrastructure offerings that expand on executives’ strategy to make the Chinese tech vendor a larger player in the $87 billion data […]

Intel is launching the latest version of its high-end Xeon E7 server processors with its eye firmly on the growing data analytics needs in the enterprise. Officials with the chip maker on June 6 unveiled the Xeon E7-8800/4800 v4 product families that are built on the company’s “Broadwell-EX” core architecture and offer significant gains in […]

As Michael Dell and other executives of his namesake company continue to push their $67 billion bid to buy data storage giant EMC, they earlier this month had their attention brought back to the contentious 2013 buyout by the CEO that took Dell private. A judge in Delaware’s special corporate court ruled that the $25 […]

Qualcomm is expanding its presence in the increasingly competitive market for chips aimed at the wearable device space, adding a new processor to its portfolio and highlighting the growing number of products being powered by its technologies. At the recent Computex 2016 show in Taipei, Taiwan, Qualcomm officials introduced the Snapdragon Wear 1100 system on […]

Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010 opened a lot of doors for the enterprise applications vendor, giving it a data center hardware business and the popular Java programming language. In recent weeks, the deal has led Oracle into the courtroom. Soon after buying Sun in 2010, Oracle sued Google, claiming the search […]

Advanced Micro Devices and Intel both came to the Computex 2016 show this week in Taipei, Taiwan, with the PC in mind despite efforts to grow their respective businesses in emerging areas in hopes of reducing their dependence on the contracting market. Officials with both chip makers said that despite several years of declines in […]