Jeff Burt

Despite previous reports, Advanced Micro Devices has not closed the door on the possibility of working with ARM Holdings. At the same time, there is no deal that’s in the works between AMD and ARM, the dominant player in the mobile chip space. Instead, AMD officials believe ARM shares similar views on where the industry […]

Cisco Systems and Xerox are partnering up to offer print services via the cloud through Cisco’s data center technology. At the Interop 2011 show in Las Vegas May 9, the two companies unveiled a partnership plan that will enable businesses to print from any device anywhere on any printer on the businesses’ networks. Through the […]

Brocade will be demonstrating a 100 Gigabit Ethernet-capable networking offering at the Interop 2011 show this week that is designed to help service providers become more optimized for cloud computing. Brocade officials announced the demo-done in partnership with Ixia-May 9, saying it will help service providers as demand pushes them from being simply data delivery […]

Hewlett-Packard is continuing to press Cisco Systems in the data center networking space, rolling out a new architecture that officials said is designed to enable businesses to leverage the benefits of such technologies as virtualization and cloud computing while avoiding being locked in to a single vendor. HP’s FlexNetwork, announced May 9, is aimed at […]

Tilera, which is developing a range of many-core processors that officials say will rapidly scale up to as many as 200 cores, is starting to outline its multimarket approach. At the Interop 2011 show this week in Las Vegas, Tilera officials are unveiling their Tile-GX 8000 series of chips designed specifically for networking applications that […]

Dell is rolling out a host of server, networking and storage offerings designed to give businesses more tools as they look to increase their virtualization capabilities. Key among the new products is the PowerEdge M915, which is powered by Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron 6100 Series processors, which offer up to 12 cores. The core count […]

The latest chapter in what’s becoming an ongoing Intel-vs.-ARM drama is speculation that Apple will opt for ARM processors over those from Intel for its laptops. The Website SemiAccurate reported May 5 that, according to unnamed sources, Apple officials have decided to use ARM chips within the next two to three years for their laptops-and […]

Intel’s new transistor technology will enable the giant chip maker to continue extending Moore’s Law in PCs and servers for at least the next few years, but it’s the possible impact on the company’s mobile ambitions that will draw the most interest from industry observers. Intel officials on May 4 introduced the new three-dimensional transistor […]

ARM Holdings already dominates the smartphone and tablet chip spaces, and has said it plans to cut into Intel’s significant server market share. Now, it could become a player on the PC scene, according to market research firm IDC. In a report issued May 5, IDC said that by 2015, ARM would hold 13 percent […]

Cisco Systems executives are continuing to reorganize the company as they look to get the networking giant back on track. Cisco May 5 announced plans to streamline its sales, services and engineering units to help the company focus on five key IT areas-routing and switching, collaboration, data center virtualization and cloud, video, and what officials […]

Riverbed Technology is integrating network analysis technology acquired through its purchase of Cace Technologies with its own Cascade network performance management offering to create tools that give network administrators a deeper and more robust view into their infrastructures and applications. Riverbed officials on May 3 unveiled Cascade 9.0 and Cascade Pilot 3.0, which Yoav Eliat, […]

Avaya is adding to its larger data center virtualization strategy with a number of new products, including a new top-of-rack switch, management offerings and services. Avaya will showcase these new offerings at the Interop 2011 show, which kicks off May 8 in Las Vegas. The products and services will add to Avaya’s VENA (Virtual Enterprise […]