Jeff Burt

Almost a year after announcing it was getting into the server chip business, Qualcomm is sampling its ARM-based processor with tier-one data centers. The Oct. 8 announcement came at an event in San Francisco where Qualcomm executives demonstrated its Server Development Platform (SDP) using a pre-production version of a 24-core system-on-a-chip (SoC) that was built […]

Elliott Management, the activist hedge fund that has roiled the operations of tech companies like EMC, Citrix Systems and Juniper Networks over the past few years, is now turning its attention to two vendors in the communications space, Polycom and Mitel. The firm on Oct. 8 disclosed that it has bought large stakes in both […]

Polycom officials want to move the focus of video conferences from the end of the conference room to the center. The company is rolling out an array of new telepresence devices that officials said are designed to fit how people sit and communicate when they gather together. “When people collaborate, they tend to work around […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials earlier this year said that immersive computing was one the growth markets they expected will help push the chip maker back into sustainable profitability. The company this week took a significant step into that market by announcing it is partnering with Dell and Oculus to develop desktops and notebooks that can […]

Big Switch Networks, Facebook and NTT are unveiling a Linux-based network operating system that can be used to bring together the disparate networking components that have been developed within the Facebook-led Open Compute Project. The three companies will demonstrate Open Network Linux (ONL) Oct. 9 at the Open Compute Project’s (OCP) Engineering Workshop in Boston. […]

Nokia will split its networking business into four business units after the acquisition of rival Alcatel-Lucent closes, part of the larger organizational and executive restructuring that company officials unveiled Oct. 7. Nokia announced the $16.6 billion deal for Alcatel-Lucent earlier this year, a move that would create a major player in the global networking space […]

IBM officials for the past few years have been working with Nvidia to bring GPU accelerators to some of Big Blue’s Power-based servers used by enterprises and supercomputing organizations, and earlier this year said Nvidia’s Tesla K80 GPUs would be used in bare-metal server in its SoftLayer cloud environment. GPU acceleration using Nvidia graphics products […]

The Internet of things was a focus of Cisco Systems’ media event Oct. 5, with new CEO Chuck Robbins calling it “bigger than the first wave of the Internet.” The giant networking vendor is planning to grow its presence in the IoT, which Cisco officials have said will grow rapidly to include more than 50 […]

Juniper Networks is the latest networking vendor to be tapped by AT&T to contribute to the giant carrier’s efforts to accelerate the use of network virtualization in its infrastructure. Juniper officials announced Oct. 5 that AT&T will use Juniper’s Contrail software-defined networking (SDN) controller as part of the AT&T Integrated Cloud (AIC) environment. According to […]

Oracle Communications is combining existing and new analytics software to create a new offering designed to enable service providers to gain better insights from their network, service and subscriber information. The company’s Oracle Communications Analytics will let communications service providers take advantage of both the industry-specific capabilities offered by Oracle Communications as well as the […]

Hewlett-Packard made a strong entrance into the growing open networking field earlier this year with the release of its Altoline of switches, enabling customers to buy the branded systems and run third-party software on top of them. Now the tech company is expanding its efforts in the space, leading the launch of a Linux-based open-source […]

Networking chip maker Aquantia has raised another $37 million in funding thanks to the continued backing of Cisco Systems and new investors like chip manufacturer Globalfoundries. Officials with the 10-year-old company announced the new round of funding Oct. 5, noting that Aquantia—which has more than 160 employees—has now raised a total of $199 million from […]