Jeff Burt

Ciena early next year will release a hardened, fully supported commercial version of the ONOS open-source operating system for virtualized networks, which initially will be aimed at telecommunications companies that are looking to migrate their legacy infrastructures to software-defined networks. Company officials said last week that Ciena’s ONOS (Open Networking Operating System) will be released […]

FreeConferenceCall.com is offering video conferencing capabilities in its latest collaboration service that includes such features as screen sharing. The company became the world’s fifth-largest conferencing provider on the basis of its high-definition audio services and other features. With its new online meeting tool, the service provider is now bringing video conferencing into the mix. Along […]

Dell officials plan to take the company’s cyber-security division SecureWorks public next year. The company this week filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) notifying regulators of the plan to take SecureWorks private. Dell officials didn’t say how much SecureWorks expected to raise—saying only $100 million, which reportedly is usually used as a […]

Qualcomm officials believe the new midrange Snapdragon 620 and 618 mobile chipsets have such strong features that they deserve their own category within the company’s product portfolio. The company introduced the ARM-based systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) in February, arming them with capabilities that until then had only been found in Qualcomm’s premium Snapdragon 800 family of processors. […]

Padmasree Warrior, one of a number of top executives at Cisco Systems who left the company earlier this year when Chuck Robbins was tapped to replace John Chambers as CEO of the network giant, will head up the U.S. operations of a new Chinese electric car company that looks to compete with Tesla. The announcement […]

Dealing With the Ups and Downs of Conference Calls The conference call plays a central role at firms, but things will go wrong. Here are tips for making sure the conference call goes well, despite of glitches. Check Under the Hood If using a conferencing service, make sure the provider has the tools that are […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cisco Systems continue to be the top hardware vendors in a global data center infrastructure market that is nearing the $120 billion mark, according to analysts with Synergy Research Group. At the same time, Microsoft remained by far the number-one software maker in the space in the third quarter, with almost […]

Officials with the ZigBee Alliance a year ago announced that the group was unifying the various application-specific versions of its wireless specification into a single standard in hopes of accelerating interoperability between the billions of devices that make up the Internet of things. The alliance in February 2016 will begin certifying products for ZigBee 3.0 […]

Qualcomm officials said they will keep the company intact, noting that the best way to deal with its myriad challenges is by ensuring that the vendor’s chip-making and licensing businesses stay together. The decision, announced Dec. 15, comes after a months-long review by a special committee comprising members of the company’s board of directors, and […]

John McAdam, who led application delivery technology vendor F5 Networks as president and CEO for 15 years, is returning to the job after the man who replaced him in July resigned due to personal conduct issues. F5 officials announced Dec. 14 that Manuel Rivelo had resigned the position he had held since July, when McAdam […]

Executives with troubled mobile chip maker Qualcomm could decide as early as this week whether to break the company in two or push ahead through its current challenges as a single entity. Qualcomm has been under pressure from activist investor Jana Partners to split up the company by separating its chip-making business from its licensing […]

VMware is pulling out of a plan with parent company EMC to create a joint venture that was becoming one of a number of challenges in Dell’s $67 billion bid to buy the giant storage technology vendor. In a brief filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Dec. 14, VMware officials said they no […]