Jeff Burt

Officials with Calxeda, the startup that is building ARM-based chips for low-power data center servers, is putting a program in place to create an ecosystem around its technology and more quickly open up the industry for its products. Calxeda on June 14 announced its Trailblazer program, which kicked off with 10 initial members that touch […]

When Cisco Systems bought telepresence rival Tandberg last year for $3.3 billion, analysts said Cisco would be able to leverage Tandberg’s presence in the midmarket space to expand its video-conferencing offerings into that area. It was a market Cisco needed to access to continue growing its visual-communications business, the analysts said. That push down the […]

Top-tier data center systems makers continue to roll out prepackaged hardware-and-software offerings as they look to grow their capabilities in the increasingly competitive converged infrastructure space. Both Hewlett-Packard and Oracle added to their portfolios this week with solutions that leverage both in-house and partner technologies designed to give enterprises integrated and easy-to-deploy converged data center […]

Avaya, the networking and unified communications vendor that bolstered its business with its $915 million deal to buy Nortel Networks’ enterprise unit, reportedly is now planning to go public again. According to the Wall Street Journal, Avaya could file papers for a $1 billion IPO as early as this week. The report, which quoted “people […]

Avaya officials have filed the necessary papers for a $1 billion IPO following two days of speculation. The Wall Street Journal had reported June 7 that Avaya, a networking and communications technology vendor, was preparing to go public again, taking advantage of a newly energized IPO market buoyed by the likes of LinkedIn and Groupon. […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are putting more pressure on Oracle to reverse its decision to end software development for Intel’s Itanium platform, reportedly sending the software giant a notice saying the decision violated contractual agreements with HP and harmed the companies’ 140,000 shared customers. HP, in the midst of its Discover 2011 show in Las Vegas, reportedly […]

Vidyo, best known for software that lets users collaborate visually over their desktops, is now taking on the likes of Cisco Systems and Polycom with a telepresence offering that officials say will provide better quality across more screens and at a fraction of the price. With VidyoPanorama, company officials are looking to bridge the gap […]

Cisco Systems officials earlier this month released a report that found that by 2015, global Internet traffic will approach the zettabyte level, driven in large part by the rapid spread of mobile devices and the increase in video. Now the networking giant is rolling out new routers for its ASR (Aggregation Services Router) line designed […]

Hewlett-Packard is expanding its cloud computing offerings for service providers and enterprises and is putting up $2 billion to help customers move in that direction. At the HP Discover 2011 show in Las Vegas June 7, HP officials rolled out new services and extensions of its CloudSystem offering that was first unveiled in January, as […]

Speculation remains high about a possible Apple-Intel chip-making deal. In a June 6 research note, Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung echoes what others have said, that Intel might enter into a deal with Apple to make the chips that power such devices as the iPhone and iPad tablet. Those chips-including the A4 and A5-currently are made […]

A startup is unveiling a platform that officials say will cut the power consumption in processors by more than half, a move that makes it the latest entrant into an increasingly competitive mobile chip market. SuVolta, a six-year-old company that came out of stealth mode June 6, is introducing its PowerShrink platform, which officials said […]

Hewlett-Packard executives are launching a new modular data center offering that can be deployed and run at a fraction of the capital and power costs of a traditional facility. HP, which five years ago joined a growing number of systems vendors that began offering modular, containerized data centers with its POD (Performance Optimized Data Center), […]