Jeff Burt

Riverbed Technology officials believe they have key advantages as the company looks to become a larger player in the developing software-defined networking space, and now they have new research to back up their efforts. The vendor, which is best known for its SteelHead WAN optimization technologies, is planning to make an aggressive push into the […]

Advanced Micro Devices is continuing to see employees heading for the door, either of their own volition or not. In September, Jim Keller, the chief chip architect and the driving force behind the development of AMD’s upcoming “Zen” chip architecture, left the company to pursue other opportunities, ending his second stint with the processor maker. […]

Intel is continuing to rely more on its data center business and other newer product segments to help offset the continued sales declines in its PC processor unit. However, even the Data Center Group—which saw revenues hit $4.1 billion in the third quarter, a 12 percent jump over the same period last year—had continued weakness […]

The ONOS Project, less than a year after launching the first release of its open-source software-defined networking platform, is now joining the Linux Foundation in hopes of accelerating the reach of its technology. The two groups announced a strategic alliance Oct. 13 in which the ONOS Project will be able to leverage the Linux Foundation’s […]

Elliott’s Broad Influence in Tech Market Includes EMC, Polycom, Others With Dell buying EMC and reports of Polycom-Mitel merger talks, Elliott Management continues to expand its influence in the tech market. Jesse Cohn Leading the Way Jesse Cohn has led the push into the notoriously volatile tech space for Elliott, the $25 billion hedge fund […]

VMware is bringing its network virtualization capabilities to service providers and telecommunications companies. At its VMworld 2015 Europe show in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 13, company officials announced the general availability of its vCloud NFV (network-functions virtualization) platform, carrier-grade support for NFV deployments and a certification program that partners can use to ensure their virtualized network […]

Hewlett-Packard and F5 Networks are part of a multivendor effort to create a network-functions virtualization proof-of-concept for communications service providers. The proof-on-concept (PoC)—also developed with Nuage Networks and Telstra, the top telecommunications company in Australia—is built atop of HP’s OpenNFV Platform, a collection of software and services launched by the tech vendor in 2014 and […]

Dell will become a debt-ridden company overwhelmed by the multiple challenges of integrating two massive tech vendors after it completes its $67 billion acquisition of EMC, the world’s top storage technology maker, according to Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. The result will be confusion among customers and channel partners, and an opportunity for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, one […]

After taking his namesake company private in a hotly contested $25 billion buyout in 2013, CEO Michael Dell was outspoken in his happiness about no longer being a publicly traded company beholden to thousands of shareholders, needing to answer questions from financial analysts during quarterly earnings calls and having to worry about the “90-day shot […]

Dell is buying storage giant EMC for $67 billion in a move that accelerates its efforts to become a premiere enterprise IT solutions and services vendor and compete with the likes of Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Cisco Systems and Oracle. For almost a decade, Dell—primarily through acquisitions—has been rapidly expanding its capabilities in such areas as storage, […]

A strong U.S. dollar and the anticipated lull as consumers await systems with Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system and Intel’s new “Skylake” processors conspired to create a brutal environment for the global PC market in the third quarter, according to analysts with IDC and Gartner. In their latest numbers, the analyst firms said shipments of […]

LogMeIn, which is looking to add more security capabilities to its remote computer access business, is buying password manager LastPass for $110 million in a deal that officials with both companies praised but which raised concerns among some of LastPass’ customers. LogMeIn could pay another $15 million if LastPass hits certain milestones during the two […]