Jeff Burt

Ciena is the latest networking company to get a piece of bankrupt Nortel Networks. The two companies announced Nov. 23 that Ciena was the winning bidder for Nortel’s optical networking and carrier Ethernet business. Ciena will pay “$530 million in cash and issue U.S. $239 million in aggregate principal amount of 6 percent Senior Convertible […]

Hewlett-Packard reported solid quarterly numbers on the strength of its services business and it cost-control efforts, including the elimination of 19,000 jobs in the wake of merging EDS into the company. HP Nov. 23 said revenue for its fiscal year fourth-quarter 2009 came in at $30.8 billion, down 8 percent over the same period last […]

Craig Barrett, former chairman and CEO of Intel, has been vocal over the past few years about the need to improve math and science education in the United States to ensure that the country continues to be competitive in the global economy. Now he has the backing of the Obama administration, which on Nov. 23 […]

Verizon is looking to bring its collaboration capabilities to the health care field. Verizon on Nov. 23 unveiled its Telehealth Collaboration Services, designed to let health care professionals collaborate remotely via the Internet with patients and other professionals in the field. Customers also will be able to use the technology for such tasks as medical […]

IBM and CA are rolling out separate software offerings designed to make it easier for businesses to manage and develop applications in their mainframe environments. IBM on Nov. 19 unveiled a host of of software offerings designed to expand the workloads-from data analytics to application maintenance to collaboration application development-that can run on its System […]

Dell is moving quickly to expand its services capabilities in the wake of its $3.9 billion purchase of Perot Systems, rolling out a health care solution designed to make it easier for hospital personnel to quickly access patient medical records. Dell is unveiling its MCC (Medical Clinical Computing) offering, a virtualized desktop environment that gives […]

IBM has built a multimillion-dollar supercomputer at Brown University in Rhode Island that will help researchers there and throughout the region tackle a host of computational projects. The center opened Nov. 20. The supercomputer at the Providence, R.I., university’s Center for Computation and Visualization will run at a peak performance of more than 14 teraflops-or […]

An ombudsman with the European Union criticized the EU’s antitrust regulatory agency for not properly recording a meeting during its investigation of Intel. In a ruling Nov. 18, Ombudsman Nikiforos Diamandouros accused the European Commission of “maladministration” for failing to take minutes during a meeting with a Dell executive three years ago during its investigation […]

HP, SGI, Cray and Dell Show Off New Systems at Supercomputing 2009 by Jeffrey Burt HP ProLiant BL2x220c G6 HP’s ProLiant BL2x220c G6 puts two two-socket blade servers powered by Intel’s Xeon 5500 Series chips into a single-sized blade compartment. Officials say the system offers 33 percent more memory capacity than the previous generation. HP […]

IBM researchers say they are making significant strides in creating a computer that can simulate the human brain. At the Supercomputing show in Portland, Ore., Nov. 18, researchers working on the cognitive computing team reported that they’ve reached two major milestones in the project-performing the first almost real-time cortical simulation of the brain that goes […]

Riverbed Technology is turning its Steelhead WAN optimization product to the public cloud environment. At an event in New York Nov. 17, Riverbed officials announced plans to roll out a host of new products aimed at improving the performance of applications in public clouds, such as Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). Riverbed’s Steelhead technology already […]

Brocade Communications Systems is offering service providers a new switching router that it says brings 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet capabilities along with enhanced space and power efficiency. Brocade’s NetIron CER 2000 Series compact switch, announced Nov. 17, offers high performance in a 1U (1.75-inch) form factor, with 24G or 48G Ethernet ports […]