Jeff Burt

Citrix Systems President and CEO Mark Templeton plans to retire and officials will review what to do with the vendor’s GoTo online collaboration portfolio as activist investor Elliott Management grows its influence over the company. The company also is making changes on the board of directors, including appointing Jesse Cohn, senior portfolio manager at Elliott, […]

Intel and Micron Technology have jointly developed a new memory architecture that officials say will enable processors to more quickly access massive stores of data, a needed capability in light of such trends as the proliferation of connected devices, cloud computing and analytics. In a press conference with analysts and journalists July 28, executives with […]

Dell and Lenovo are laying out their plans for new Windows 10 PCs as Microsoft gets ready to launch its latest operating system. Dell officials, who have been taking preorders for systems running Windows 10 since June, are pushing up the delivery timeline for the new PCs. Initially, the plan was to start shipping the […]

Chuck Robbins began his first full day as Cisco Systems’ new CEO by adding two people to his executive team and reiterating his view on the importance of the network in an increasingly digital world. In a post on the company blog July 27, Robbins—who is Cisco’s first new CEO in two decades, replacing John […]

Mellanox Technologies is partnering with Iceotope to offer liquid-cooled InfiniBand and Ethernet network interconnects designed for the high-performance computing space. The companies are combining Mellanox’s high-performance network expertise with Iceotope’s liquid-cooling technology to offer 36-port FDR (fourteen data rate) 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40/56Gb Ethernet switches that can be housed in Iceotope’s PetaGen cabinet. Iceotope officials […]

Cisco Systems continues to shed businesses as Chuck Robbins takes over for longtime CEO John Chambers. Less than a week after the networking giant sold its TV set-top box business to French media vendor Technicolor for $600 million, Cisco is getting out of the flash storage business. The company is ditching its Invicta storage array […]

Fujitsu is introducing a liquid-cooled server solution that officials say will reducing cooling costs by 50 percent and increase data center density by up to five times for such scale-out environments as high-performance computing. The company last week unveiled the Primergy CX400 M1 and its cluster nodes that make up the company’s Cool-Central Liquid Cooling […]

Derek Brink was thinking about where he would put his hope when it comes to data security. It wouldn’t be with end users and customers, the Aberdeen Group analyst said, and most enterprises are thinking about growing their businesses and profits and want to ensure that complex security products don’t interfere with those efforts. Where […]

Nokia’s $16.6 billion bid to buy Alcatel-Lucent got a significant boost when European Union antitrust regulators gave their approval to the deal. The European Commission ruled July 24 that while both vendors sell equipment and services to telecommunications companies, the acquisition doesn’t raise antitrust concerns because Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent are not close competitors and there […]

Qualcomm Restructuring, Cutting Jobs to Bolster Bottom Line We look at Qualcomm’s restructuring plans—including job cuts, a reworking of the board of directors and other efforts to boost the company’s bottom line. Thriving in a Rapidly Changing Market CEO Mollenkopf said the “steps are being implemented on an accelerated timeline and are designed to help […]

Intel executives are kicking off a broad initiative to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing in enterprise data centers and to position the company’s silicon and related products as the enabling technologies for the infrastructure that will power the clouds. Officials with the giant chip maker on July 23 unveiled the Intel Cloud for All […]

Cisco Systems is usually on the buying end of deals, but at least in this instance, the giant networking vendor is the seller. The company is selling its set-top box business to French media vendor Technicolor for about $600 million, a move that will get Cisco out of the video customer premises equipment (CPE) business […]