Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is going ahead with the $3.4 billion acquisition of Tandberg, despite not getting the number of shares it was seeking. Cisco officials announced Dec. 3 that it will buy the Norwegian company, creating the largest video conferencing vendor in the world. Cisco initially had sought the backing of Tandberg investors who held at […]

Intel is showing off an experimental 48-core processor that officials say could hold 10 to 20 times the processing power now found in a Core-branded chip. Intel officials demonstrated the processor-which they are calling a “single-chip cloud computer”-at an event in Palo Alto, Calif., Dec. 2. The experimental processor comes from Intel Labs’ Tera-scale Computer […]

Seven Keys to Better Blade Management in the Data Center by Jeffrey Burt Process and People Building a bladed environment is the perfect time to zero in on the people and processes surrounding the technology, Hanna said. Look to define approaches based on ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) best practices. Train the IT Staff A […]

Avaya and Cisco Systems were the top vendors in a growing unified communications space in the third quarter, according to research company Dell’Oro Group. In a statement released Dec. 3, Dell’Oro analysts said more than 70 percent of the vendors in the space contributed to the market’s growth in the third quarter. However, even though […]

Advanced Micro Devices is teaming up with SiSoftware to create a way for developers and businesses to measure the performance of systems using the OpenCL standard. AMD and Nvidia have been driving graphics processors into more mainstream computing environments, and officials with both vendors have said that organizations running heavy computational workloads are turning more […]

The worldwide server market, hammered by the global economic recession, began to stabilize in the third quarter and promises to continue to rebound in the fourth quarter and into next year, according to research firm IDC. In quarterly numbers released Dec. 2, IDC said that while global server revenue and shipments declined 17.3 percent and […]

Cisco Systems is still short of having control of the 90 percent of Tandberg shares it has set as a condition for buying the Norwegian video conferencing equipment vendor. Cisco officials said Dec. 2 that will wait until after the Dec. 3 deadline to decide whether they have reached the 90 percent threshold. If not, […]

Extreme Networks wants to help guide data centers down the road from traditional physical infrastructure to virtualized environments. At the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas Dec. 3, Extreme officials will outline their blueprint for future data centers and the necessary steps for making the migration. The key is the networking infrastructure, and Extreme […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to bring enterprise-class PC manageability and security features into a more affordable system. HP on Dec. 1 unveiled the Compaq 8000 Elite Business Desktop PC, which offers a long lifecycle, high-end security features, enhanced power efficiency, and technologies from the likes of Intel and Microsoft, including the Windows 7 operating system. “HP […]

Enterprises are going to invest more in private cloud infrastructures over the next couple of years while public cloud offerings mature, according to Gartner analysts. During that time-from now until about 2012-businesses need to lay out a plan for their migration to cloud computing so they are ready to make the move as the computing […]

Applied Micro Circuits has a new name and a new direction. Company officials announced Nov. 30 that the new name is AppliedMicro and that they are looking to push farther into the semiconductor space currently dominated by the likes of Intel, Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm and Advanced Micro Devices. AppliedMicro is expecting that its ability to […]

Cisco Systems once again has extended its deadline to buy video conferencing rival Tandberg, pushing it back by two days to Dec. 3. In a brief statement Dec. 1, Cisco officials said that soon after the deadline passes, they will decide whether they have the necessary support of Tandberg investors holding at least 90 percent […]