Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems in 2009 made an aggressive move to expand its presence in the data center with the introduction of the Unified Computing System, a converged solution that included the company’s own networking and x86 servers along with storage and virtualization from partners. The move instantly made Cisco a competitor against the likes of Hewlett-Packard […]

When Jeff Benck took over as CEO of Lantronix in December, he found a company that was not seeing the immense opportunity in front of it. The company makes specialized networking products for connecting things to the Internet and to each other, an enviable position given the sharp growth in the number of devices that […]

The Raspberry Pi, the small, basic computer that is aimed at makers and students, keeps getting better even as the price stays the same. The project behind the computer—which is essentially a motherboard that comes with such features as CPUs, graphics, wireless connectivity and memory—on Feb. 29 unveiled the latest model, the Raspberry Pi 3, […]

Dell’s $67 billion bid to buy data storage giant EMC took a significant step forward when European antitrust regulators gave their unconditional approval to the massive deal, a move that came a week after a similar decision by counterparts in the United States. The European Commission, the antitrust arm of the European Union (EU), announced […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman garnered attention last summer when she hooked onto New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s run for the Republican nomination, and later in November endorsed him. However, Whitman is now harshly criticizing Christie for backing front-runner Donald Trump. Christie, who dropped out of the race after a poor showing in the […]

The OpenDaylight Project this week launched the fourth release of its network virtualization platform that group officials say addresses the growing demand from users who are deploying the technology for more enterprise-ready capabilities. Developers enhanced the performance and scalability in Beryllium at a time they said users of the platform are moving from the testing […]

HP Inc. this week provided yet another example of the well-documented problems in the global PC market. The company in the last financial quarter saw revenue in its PC business fall 13 percent year-over-year and core printing sales drop 17 percent. Overall revenue for the fiscal first quarter fell 12 percent. In response, HP executives […]

NXP Semiconductors this week unveiled the first new silicon product since closing its $12 billion acquisition of Freescale late last year when officials introduced a tiny ARM-based chip aimed at the Internet of things and other applications. At the Embedded World 2016 show, NXP officials announced the QorIQ LS1012A chip, which they said will offer […]

The heads of the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE-USA are urging congressmen to support President Obama’s push for more money for computer education in K-12 schools. In a letter sent out to members of the House of Representatives Feb. 22, Roger Fujii, president of the IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE-USA President Peter Eckstein pointed to […]

ShoreTel officials spent years developing the technology behind a common platform for the company’s cloud-based and on-premises collaboration products and last year launched the first parts of its Connect hybrid unified communications offering. Connect OnSite is the on-premises solution, while Connect Cloud is the unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) offering. Now ShoreTel officials are rolling out Connect […]

Martin Casado, the software-defined network pioneer who joined VMware when the virtualization company bought his startup almost four years ago, is leaving the virtualization technology vendor to become a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. Casado will become a general partner at the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. He and colleagues at Stanford University were the drivers […]

Dell is making a move into the emerging embedded box PCs space as it looks to expand its reach in the growing Internet of things and increase its capabilities in selling systems that are optimized to meet specific customer workload needs. The company this week launched its first purpose-built industrial PCs, the Embedded Box PC […]