Jeff Burt

CA officials expect NetQoS’ network performance management software to be a boost to a number of their own management software offerings. CA announced Sept. 14 that it is planning to buy NetQoS for $200 million in an all-cash deal that is expected to close by the end of the calendar year. Officials with CA said […]

A recent survey by Unisys is reinforcing what others have found: that security remains the top issue of enterprises when considering cloud computing. Survey results released by Unisys Sept. 15 found that of 312 respondents, 51 percent cited security and data privacy as their top concern regarding the cloud. The other major issues were integrating […]

IBM is unveiling what officials say is the highest performing and most energy efficient embedded processor aimed at SoC (system-on-chip) products. Developed in collaboration with LIS, IBM Sept. 15 announced the PowerPC 476FP processor core, aimed at SoC products in such sectors as storage, consumer devices, communications, aerospace and defense. LSI will use the 476F […]

Intel reportedly will announce Sept. 14 that Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of its Digital Enterprise Group, is leaving the company. The New York Times is reporting that Gelsinger’s departure will put in motion a number of other executive moves, all coming a week before Intel’s annual Intel Developer Forum opens in […]

With a week to go before their annual developer conference, Intel officials are having to deal with a major internal reorganization and the departure of longtime executive Pat Gelsinger. Intel announced Sept. 14 that Gelsinger, who had been senior vice president and general manager of its Digital Enterprise Group, is leaving the company. At the […]

“Jasper Forest” and “Westmere” will be among the technologies Intel officials will talk about during the chip maker’s upcoming annual Intel Developer Forum. Jasper Forest is the processor technology that will bring Intel’s “Nehalem” microarchitecture to the embedded, storage and communications sectors early next year, according to Steve Smith, vice president and general manager of […]

Aided by a small uptick in demand for PCs, Intel saw its share of the microprocessor market grow to 80.6 percent in the second quarter, a level that the chip maker hadn’t seen in almost four years, according to research company iSuppli. By contrast, rival Advanced Micro Devices’ share dropped to 11.5 percent, down .4 […]

Avaya is propelling itself to the top of the enterprise telephony market with its $900 million purchase of bankrupt Nortel Networks’ enterprise business. The combination of Avaya and Nortel’s enterprise business will give Avaya about 25 percent of the enterprise telephony market, outdistancing Cisco Systems, which now holds a 16 percent share, according to the […]

Since first announcing their plans to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, Oracle officials have been dogged by questions surrounding their plans for Sun’s hardware business. Though Oracle CEO Larry Ellison had said that he planned to keep that part of Sun’s business, concerns remained. Rivals such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM have aggressively played up […]

Advanced Micro Devices continues to press its advantage in the graphics space and build on the company’s purchase of ATI in July 2006. AMD in May announced it was merging its CPU and GPU (graphics processing unit) businesses, and on Sept. 10 said notebooks powered by AMD’s new Vision Technology-combining CPU and GPU technologies-will be […]

IBM’s proposed $1.2 billion acquisition of predictive analytic software maker SPSS cleared a significant hurdle Sept. 9, when the waiting period for an antitrust review of the deal expired. The next step is for SPSS investors to vote on the deal. The shareholders meeting is set for Oct. 2 in Chicago. The two companies on […]

Dell is offering hospitals and their affiliated physicians an electronic medical information system that removes the barriers of complexity and cost from the equation. Dell on Sept. 10 announced its Affiliated Physicians EMR offering, a combination of hardware, software and support that will make it easier for hospitals to transition to electronic medical records, which […]