Jeff Burt

Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey is putting an end to rumors that Cisco Systems will buy his company, issuing a statement May 18 that his company remains committed to Dell as its OEM partner and to its own plans to become “one of the next iconic independent software companies.” In his statement addressed to the “Dell […]

Rumors of acquisitions continue to swirl around Cisco Systems in these final weeks of John Chambers’ two decades as CEO of the networking technology giant. Earlier this month, reports surfaced that Cisco executives were once again looking to buy cyber-security software vendor FireEye to add to its growing portfolio of security solutions. However, Chambers, speaking […]

Cavium and Ubuntu Linux distributor Canonical are at the OpenStack Summit demonstrating the open-source cloud orchestration software running on a cluster of servers powered by Cavium’s ARM-based processors. The two companies this week are partnering to create an optimized solution for Cavium’s 64-bit ThunderX systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that includes not only the most recent release of […]

Intel reportedly is back in talks with Altera about buying out the smaller semiconductor vendor more than a month after negotiations broke off when Altera rejected Intel’s offer of $54 a share. According to reports in both CNBC and the New York Post, a resolution to the talks one way or the other could be […]

AT&T executives in December 2014 laid out their ambitious plans to virtualize 75 percent of the carrier’s massive network by 2020. The six-year AT&T Domain 2.0 effort is designed to transform its network from one built on expensive, complex gear and copper wiring to one that is based on software, driven by the principles of […]

IBM officials last year said the tech giant would spend $3 billion on projects that include researching what will replace traditional silicon chip architectures, including among other technologies silicon photonics. The company this week announced that engineers have taken a significant step forward in the development of silicon photonics after designing and testing a fully […]

Nuage Networks officials believe the company has removed another challenge to the wide adoption of software-defined networks in cloud computing environments. Nuage is launching its Virtualized Services Assurance Platform (VSAP), an open tool that essentially gives organizations greater visibility into both the virtual networking layer and the underlying physical hardware of switches, routers and other […]

Moore’s Law and Intel Mark Milestones in Tech History by Jeffrey Burt 1965—Gordon Moore Makes a Prediction Moore, in an article in an electronics trade magazine, predicts that the number of transistors on a semiconductor would double every year, driving technological and business gains. 1968—Intel Is Born Moore and Robert Noyce leave Fairchild Semiconductor to […]

Intel and Fujitsu are teaming up to create a platform that can be used to build solutions for the growing Internet of things. Under the agreement, Fujitsu will combine its distributed service technology with Intel’s IoT Platform, which will enable the companies to create more offerings for customers. The tech vendors initially will focus on […]

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is dropping the price on one of the older models of its minicompute board. The Raspberry Pi Model B+, which launched last year and was the last version of the original board that was released in 2012, will go from $35 to $25—a move that comes as the competition in the […]

Intel is bringing new acceleration capabilities to some of its custom server chips that it will sell to cloud service providers to speed up such workloads as big data analytics and security. Intel is partnering with eASIC to bring application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to custom Xeons that can be used in enterprise data centers […]

Big Switch Networks, which in January brought support for VMware’s vSphere server virtualization technology to its networking fabric, is now extending that support to VMware’s NSX software-defined networking platform. At the Open Network User Group (ONUG) 2015 conference May 12, Big Switch officials announced that the latest release of its SDN fabric, Big Cloud Fabric […]