Jeff Burt

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise officials earlier this year outlined a strategy that focused on embracing the cloud as a key way to deliver networking and communications technologies to customers, and launched two new consumption models as part of the initiative. Now Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has named a new leader to help drive the company’s strategy going forward. […]

Carly Fiorina’s time in the political spotlight may not be over just yet. The ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO, ex-presidential candidate and the loser in the one other political race she ran reportedly is high on the list of possible vice presidential running mates for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Reports began to surface April 25—the day before businessman […]

Dell last year launched its Internet of things (IoT) business unit and rolled out its first gateway device that is designed to gather, aggregate and analyze the massive amounts of data the billions of connected, intelligent things will generate. Earlier this year, the company unveiled new embedded PCs that will further fuel its IoT ambitions. […]

The future of Intel, which over the past few decades has become the dominant supplier of processors to PCs around the world, lies in new and emerging markets like the cloud and the Internet of things, according CEO Brian Krzanich. In a blog posted on the Intel Website April 26, Krzanich said the company is […]

Dell is partnering with Aerohive Networks to offer a software tool that can manage both Dell’s wired networking switches and Aerohive’s wireless access points. Through the alliance, the two companies are rolling out HiveManager NG, a cloud-based unified management solution that enables Aerohive’s management tool to also include Dell’s N-Series switches, a nod to the […]

Riverbed Technology officials, who six months ago announced the company’s intent to move into the emerging SD-WAN market and in January bolstered its ambitions by acquiring Ocedo, are now rolling out the first of the company’s products into the space. The vendor on April 26 unveiled SteelConnect, a platform that officials said is pushing beyond […]

Intel reportedly is getting pushback from some employees to its highly publicized efforts to increase the diversity of its workforce. Some of the resistance has reached the level of threats, CEO Brian Krzanich said during a conference late last week on diversity in the tech industry, though it was unclear what the threats involved. According […]

Verizon has launched what officials are calling the largest deployment of a network-functions virtualization OpenStack cloud deployment, a move that was done with the help of Red Hat, Dell and Big Switch Networks. The effort happened quickly, with the project moving from concept to deployment in fewer than nine months, according to Verizon officials. The […]

Months after taking control of Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia is unveiling the initial results of the merger of the two networking vendors. Nokia officials this week announced a revamped single CloudBand software portfolio that combines Alcatel-Lucent’s CloudBand platform with Nokia’s Cloud Applications Manager and Cloud Network Director products. The new CloudBand also is part of a larger […]

The disruption occurring around Intel over the past several months looks like it could continue as the giant chip maker reportedly is planning to make significant job cuts. The Oregonian newspaper, citing multiple unnamed sources within the company, said the layoffs will be larger than the 1,100 U.S. jobs lost last year and could hit […]

Officials with Dell, Cumulus Networks and Red Hat say the companies have demonstrated that large-scale OpenStack deployments can be easy to manage and deploy using open-source DevOps tools and open networking offerings. The companies created a 300-plus-node OpenStack cluster that used server and networking switches from Dell, Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution and Cumulus’ Linux network […]

Mitel is buying Polycom in a $1.96 billion deal that officials for both vendors said will create a combined company that will be better able to compete with the likes of Cisco Systems and Microsoft in a rapidly changing enterprise communications and collaboration market. The announcement of the deal April 15 comes after months of […]