Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is bringing improved flexibility, openness and security to is Application Centric Infrastructure network virtualization offering. The company on Dec. 3 unveiled a new software release for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)—its software-defined networking (SDN) effort—that allows for micro-segmentation for not only physical (bare metal) but also for applications running on virtual servers based on […]

Polycom is shedding 11 percent of its workforce and shutting down some offices as part of a larger restructuring effort designed to increase profitability. Officials with the video conferencing vendor, which has been under pressure from an activist investor to improve its finances and return more money to shareholders, said in a filing with the […]

Worldwide server revenue and shipments saw strong growth in the third quarter, driven by continued expansion of hyperscale environments running x86-based processors primarily from Intel and data center demand for rack-scale architectures, according to analysts with Gartner and IDC. In numbers released Dec. 2, IDC analysts said that revenue in the quarter jumped 5.1 percent […]

Aruba Networks is bringing improved management and analytics to the indoor location services it introduced a year ago. Company officials on Dec. 2 announced Aruba Mobile Engagement 2.0, which also includes a new app developer partnership program to encourage programmers to create software for Aruba’s Meridian Mobile App platform. Aruba is owned by Hewlett Packard […]

Dell reportedly is fielding bids from several firms for its Quest and SonicWall businesses and is shopping its services unit as the tech vendor looks to reduce the debt it will take on when it buys storage giant EMC for $67 billion. Citing unnamed sources, Reuters is reporting that three buyout firms—KKR & Co., Thoma […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is joining a growing number of tech vendors that want to push much of the computing, intelligence and analytics for the Internet of things out to the edge of the network. The company at its Discover 2015 show Dec. 2 in London unveiled new gateway devices designed not only to process, store […]

Freescale Semiconductor is rolling out the latest of its tiny ARM-based microcontrollers that is aimed at the growing Internet of things and wearable device markets. Company officials on Dec. 1 unveiled an ultra-thin Kinetis K22 microcontroller (MCU) that they said has the thickness of a blade of grass. Freescale and other chip makers have been […]

Cisco Systems, Avaya and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are among the top players in the competitive enterprise networking market, according to analysts with IHS. In its 2015 vendor scorecard report for the space, the market research firm also included Brocade, Huawei Technologies and Juniper Networks at the top of the list. The top leaders—Cisco, Brocade, HPE […]

Zoom Video Communications is bolstering its video conferencing service by enabling meeting hosts to create spaces where smaller groups within those meetings can collaborate. The company, which offers cloud-based and hybrid video collaboration services, on Dec. 1 unveiled the new Video Breakout Rooms feature that will be available to all users of its technology, including […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making its move into the nascent composable infrastructure space, the latest step in the continuing evolution of increasingly application-centric data center environments. At the company’s Discover 2015 show in London Dec. 1, officials with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) unveiled its Synergy platform, which is based on an infrastructure architecture that is […]

Dell’s proposed $67 billion acquisition of storage giant EMC and its array of federated companies reportedly is hitting some hurdles, many of which are due to VMware’s sliding stock price since the proposed merger was first announced in October. The deal represents the largest acquisition in tech industry history and would create a massive company […]

Lenovo is broadening its PC gaming expertise by partnering with gaming hardware and software maker Razer. The two vendors were at the DreamHack Winter Fest in Sweden last week showing off a prototype of the new Lenovo Razer Edition gaming desktop, and officials said the system will officially launch in January at the 2016 Consumer […]