Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems executive team is beginning as the giant tech vendor readies itself for the retirement next month of longtime CEO John Chambers. Rob Lloyd and Gary Moore, Cisco’s two presidents, will leave the company July 25, the day before Chuck Robbins, currently senior vice president of worldwide operations, takes the reins from Chambers. Robbins […]

Intel is finally pulling the trigger on Altera, buying the programmable chip maker for $16.7 billion in a bid to bolster its efforts in the data center and Internet of things and accelerating a wave of consolidation in a volatile semiconductor market. After months of speculation and on-and-off negotiations, Intel officials announced June 1 that […]

Avaya is addressing the growing trend in the unified communications space toward mobile and cloud-based solutions by buying Esna Technologies, which builds real-time collaboration and communications software. The deal will enable Avaya to integrate multivendor communications capabilities—from voice and video to instant messaging presence and conferencing—into cloud-based applications. The move will make it easier for […]

Avago Technologies is buying fellow chip maker Broadcom for $37 billion in a deal that continues a consolidation trend in the semiconductor industry. A day after reports surfaced that Singapore-based Avago was pursuing Broadcom, the two vendors on May 28 announced the deal that will create a combined $77 billion company that officials hope will […]

For the past dozen-plus years, SRC Computers has been selling a range of high-performance computing solutions to defense and intelligence agencies, building a successful business while staying under the radar in a server market dominated by the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The company was launched with the mission of developing a new computing […]

Hewlett-Packard and Dell in the first quarter continued to lead a global server market that saw a worldwide revenue increase of 17.2 percent and shipment grow jump of 8.4 percent year-over-year, with gains hitting all form factors, according to analysts with IDC. In numbers released May 27, the market research firm reported that revenue hit […]

Avago Technologies, which makes an array of computing components for such markets as wireless communications and enterprise storage, reportedly is in advanced talks to acquire chip maker Broadcom. In a report May 27, the Wall Street Journal reported that it is looking to acquire Broadcom, adding to a consolidation trend within the semiconductor market. According […]

Internet traffic will triple over the next five years, reaching 2 zettabytes by 2019, and that traffic will be mostly high-quality video and increasingly will come from wireless connections, according to officials at Cisco Systems. In their annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) report, which takes a look at Internet traffic five years down the road, […]

Aruba Networks is unveiling a new series of 802.11ac Wave 2 access points that officials say will address the growing demand for greater WiFi performance. The company, which Hewlett-Packard is in the process of acquiring for about $3 billion, on May 27 introduced the Aruba 320 series of access points (APs), which come not only […]

Google and Huawei Technologies are the latest technology vendors to push an operating system for the rapidly growing Internet of Things. At the Huawei Network Congress 2015 event last week, Huawei officials unveiled LiteOS, a lightweight operating system that was introduced as part of the company’s larger Agile Internet of Things (IoT) Solution, which also […]

Hewlett-Packard is adding to its network virtualization capabilities by acquiring ConteXtream, a vendor that offers a carrier-grade software-defined networking fabric for network-functions virtualization environments. HP and ConteXtream have been partners in the network-functions virtualization (NFV) realm. For example, ConteXtream earlier this year joined HP’s OpenNFV program. Now HP is looking to bring the company into […]

Qualcomm and car maker Daimler are looking for ways to bring wireless charging to automobiles. The two companies are not only partnering to develop technologies that will enable drivers to wirelessly charge their mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, while in their cars, but also to wirelessly charge their electric cars. Officials with Qualcomm […]