Jeff Burt

During Extreme Networks’ most recent quarterly financial earnings call earlier this month, new President and CEO Ed Meyercord promised a new strategic plan within 30 days that would turn around the networking technology vendor’s fortunes. Meyercord and other executives this week began implementing that plan, which includes a new go-to-market effort that focuses on selling […]

Don’t count Intel CEO Brian Krzanich among those who think the upcoming launch this year of Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system will give the global PC market a significant boost. Sure, worldwide PC shipments did rebound in 2014 after several years of declines, due in large part to Microsoft’s decision to end support of the […]

AMD’s Future Includes ‘Zen,’ ARM, High-Bandwidth Memory by Jeffrey Burt The Need to Simplify “We don’t need to do everything,” Su told analysts and journalists. “We need to pick the things we can do very well.” That Means Choosing Where to Focus … Such as in the gaming space, immersive platform segment and the data […]

Imagination Technologies is introducing a technology designed to bring greater security to SoCs that will power not only smartphones, but also in-car systems, gateway routers and devices for the growing Internet of things. The company, which makes its own MIPS-based systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) as well as GPUs and other processors, is unveiling OmniShield, a technology that […]

Cisco Systems, which already has been under investigation by U.S. regulators for its dealings in Russia, is under scrutiny again for allegedly selling networking equipment to Russian government agencies in violation of U.S. sanctions instituted last year. U.S. and European Union governments imposed sanctions against Russia in 2014 in response to that country’s annexing of […]

Alcatel-Lucent over the past few years has built out its software-defined networking capabilities through its Nuage Networks subsidiary, touching on the data center as well as branch offices. Now the company is setting its sight on carrier networks. Alcatel-Lucent next month will launch its SDN-based Network Services Platform (NSP), a unified offering for service automation […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to make a strong play in China by entering into a joint venture with the country’s Tsinghua University that will result in a new company that will sell enterprise infrastructure technology into the potentially lucrative market. The deal announced May 21 is the culmination of months of speculation that HP was planning […]

Unisys more than a decade ago began an effort to transition its high-end Dorado and Libra mainframe systems from the aging CMOS processors and onto Intel’s x86-based architecture, enabling its customers to run modern applications on increasingly powerful Xeon chips. May 20, Unisys announced the new ClearPath Dorado 8300 Series of servers, the last step […]

Fuze is adding to its cloud-based video and voice conferencing offerings by acquiring LiveMinutes. The move brings distributed team collaboration capabilities to Fuze’s high-definition meetings. Officials with 6year-old Fuze announced the acquisition May 20, saying the addition of LiveMinutes’ portfolio immediately expands the collaboration tools the company can offer as it looks to grow in […]

Ruckus Wireless is revamping its wireless network controller portfolio to help enterprises and service providers better deal with the bandwidth and scalability demands resulting from the rapid proliferation of mobile devices and the growth of business-critical mobile applications. Ruckus for years had multiple product lines aimed at different customer segments, from smaller businesses to enterprises […]

Mobile data traffic generated by devices like smartphones, tablets and feature phones will hit almost 197,000 petabytes by 2019, which is equal to more than 10 billion Blu-ray movies, according to analysts at Juniper Research. In a report released May 19, the analysts said they expect the average amount of data traffic generated by smartphone […]

Hewlett-Packard is set to sell a controlling stake in its China-based networking subsidiary H3C Technologies to Chinese tech vendor Tsinghua Unigroup. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, the two companies on April 23 signed a letter of intent to cooperate, and have been waiting since that time for the go-ahead from […]