Jeff Burt

When Hewlett-Packard last year closed on its $2.7 billion acquisition of networking vendor 3Com, the deal gave the company the piece it was missing in the data center stack, a networking arm to complement its server, storage and management software businesses. Now, armed with the complete data center package, HP executives are looking to push […]

The amount of Internet traffic worldwide will quadruple by 2015, driven by the explosion in the number of connected devices and connected people, the amount of video and faster broadband speeds, according to networking giant Cisco Systems. In its annual Visual Networking Index Forecast, Cisco officials predicted that global Internet traffic will reach 966 exabytes […]

Dell, which has aggressively bought companies to expand its industry reach beyond PCs and servers, could be in the market for a networking vendor, and the likely target would be Brocade, according to an analyst. In a June 1 research note, Paul Mansky, an analyst with Canaccord Genuity, noted that Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) over the […]

Mitel CEO Rich McBee has spent the last few days mingling with the people he’s most anxious to court: business users and channel partners. McBee, who in January assumed the CEO post of the UC (unified communications) vendor in hopes of injecting some life back into a company that had become financially stagnant, has over […]

Cisco Systems is facing increasing pressure from Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks in an Ethernet switching market that saw revenue decline in the first quarter, due to pricing competition, cutbacks in public spending and seasonal softness, according to market research firms Canalys and Dell’Oro Group. In separate reports issued June 1, analysts with the both firms […]

Polycom’s $89 million purchase of Hewlett-Packard’s video collaboration business, including its Halo telepresence products, gives it significantly more ammunition in its growing competition with Cisco Systems. Now Polycom will need to leverage that investment, as well as its expanded partnership with Microsoft and membership in the new OVCC (Open Visual Communications Consortium), to not only […]

Enterprises are increasingly adopting cloud computing in at least part of their IT environments, and are now also beginning to see positive results from the shift, according to a study by x86 chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices. In a study released June 1, AMD officials found that 42 percent of respondents said they are using cloud […]

Intel Keynote Intel Executive Vice President Sean Maloney delivers the keynote address at Computex, which included the introduction of what the chip vendor is calling the “ultrabook,” an ultra-thin notebook that will offer tablet-like features. -Medfield Maloney shows off a tablet reference design for “Medfield,” a 32-nanometer Atom platform specifically designed for tablets and smartphones. […]

Advanced Micro Devices has now taken a full step into the tablet space, official unveiling its Z-Series Fusion chips at the Computex 2011 show in Taipei. Word of AMD’s new “Desna” APUs (accelerated processing units) aimed at the tablet market began to spread on the Internet May 31, and company officials made it official June […]

Acer looks to be the second PC maker to sign onto Intel’s “ultrabook” vision, which was unveiled at the Computex 2011 show May 31. Acer President Jim Wong reportedly said in a statement from the show June 1 that “the ultrabook can help revive the notebook market,” which continues to see solid growth in the […]

Polycom is buying Hewlett-Packard’s video collaboration business and expanding its partnership with Microsoft as it looks to bolster its competition with Cisco Systems in the fast-growing visual communications market. The moves, announced June 1, came at the same time that Polycom officials said they were partnering with a wide range of service providers-including AT&T, BT […]

Advanced Micro Devices reportedly is developing a chip for its Fusion portfolio that is aimed specifically at the growing tablet market. According to a leaked company slide show posted on the Android Community Website, AMD’s Z-Series “Desna” APU (accelerated processing unit) is being designed to offer high performance and long battery life while driving down […]