Jeff Burt

The OpenDaylight Project has grown rapidly since it launched in 2013, both in scale and scope. The industry consortium, created by the likes of Cisco Systems, Microsoft and IBM and about two dozen other tech vendors, initially was focused on creating an open framework for software-defined networking (SDN) deployments. Two years later, the OpenDaylight group […]

Lenovo and France-based device maker Archos are joining Intel and other vendors in the compute stick market. Both companies this week unveiled their respective products in the space for USB-drive-size devices that can be plugged into displays—such as TVs or monitors—with High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) ports and turn them into a complete PC that offers […]

Hewlett-Packard this summer will bring new applications to its Sprout immersive computing system that will include stop motion, video capture and real-time measuring capabilities. The seven new applications, which will be available in the online Sprout Marketplace store, include Crayola Color Alive—which enables users to apply animated effects by using such colors as Fire-Breath and […]

Chip makers Qualcomm and Broadcom are expanding their efforts in the potentially lucrative China market through partnerships with tech vendors from the country. Qualcomm is partnering with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), a Chinese semiconductor foundry, Huawei Technologies and others in creating the SMIC Advanced Technology Research and Development Corp., a joint venture that will […]

Juniper Networks and Ruckus Wireless are combining forces to develop unified wired and wireless solutions that could challenge Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, which last month bought Aruba Networks. The alliance will bring together Juniper—arguably the second largest wired networking vendor behind Cisco—and Ruckus, a fast-growing wireless networking company that is moving up against the likes […]

Cisco Systems next year will begin buying energy from a 20-megawatt solar power facility that will be located on 153 acres in the Sonoran Desert near the border between Arizona and California. Cisco and NRG Renew, an independent power producer, on June 23 announced the deal, which officials with the giant networking vendor said will […]

Freescale Semiconductor officials this week are beginning to layout the future of the company’s ARM-based communications processors. At the company’s Freescale Technology Forum 2015 in Austin, Texas, officials announced its plans to use ARM’s low-power Cortex-A72 system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture in upcoming versions of its QorIQ LS2 networking processors due by the end of the year. […]

Oracle Communications is virtualizing its products to help communications service providers more easily make the move to network-functions virtualization environments. At the LTE World Summit 2015 in Amsterdam July 23, Oracle officials announced the release of four products—the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller, Converged Application Server, Services Gatekeeper and Policy Management—that they said will bring […]

ARM is going to have a significant presence at this year’s Red Hat Summit, according to Jeff Underhill, director of server programs for the chip designer. This will be the first year that ARM has its own booth at the show, which runs until June 26 in Boston. Underhill will spend much of that time […]

Enterprises increasingly are looking to the high-performance computing market for systems that will enable them to better run their big data and analytics workloads, according to Brian Payne, executive director of Dell’s Server Solution unit. The tech vendor next month will begin selling the PowerEdge C6320, a powerful, highly dense and energy-efficient system that Payne […]

Freescale Semiconductor officials are putting much of their attention squarely on the Internet of things during the first two days of the company’s annual user conference. At the Freescale Technology Forum June 22, the company unveiled a number of offerings designed for the rapidly growing Internet of things (IoT) and the tens of billions of […]

Pica8, whose open software is designed to help customers more easily adopt network virtualization technology on commodity white boxes, is expanding its capabilities in the service provider space by supporting Power-over-Ethernet in network switches. Company officials on June 22 announced that Pica8’s network operating system, PicOS, can now run on Edge-Core Networks’ AS4610-54P bare-metal switch, […]