Jeff Burt

ARM is continuing its push into the networking space, partnering this week with Linux embedded software provider Enea to show off an early developer release of an ARM-based reference platform for network-functions virtualization environments. The two companies are offering the demonstration during the NFV World Congress show in San Jose, Calif., which runs through May […]

Cisco Systems is looking to add to its collaboration capabilities by acquiring Tropo, a company that offers a cloud API platform designed to make it easy for developers to put communications into their applications. Being able to embed real-time communications into applications is becoming increasingly important given the rise of such tends as IT mobility, […]

NEW YORK—In search of a path to long-term profitability, Advanced Micro Devices is pushing back into the high-performance PC and data center server markets, focusing on emerging markets like immersive computing. Speaking at a May 6 financial analyst meeting – the company’s first in three years — CEO Lisa Su and other AMD executives outlined […]

Intel and Cloudera over the past year have improved the encryption offload performance of Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution by 2.5 times while minimizing the impact on system performance. Intel officials during the launch May 5 of the company’s new high-end Xeon E7 v3 server processor family touted the chips’ capabilities in accelerating data analytics and other […]

Intel is launching the latest version of its Xeon E7 high-end server chips at a time when data analytics and other compute-intensive workloads are putting attention back onto powerful scale-up systems that run on four or more processors. Intel officials introduced the Xeon E7 v3 portfolio during an event in San Francisco May 5, saying […]

Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo are rolling out new and enhanced high-end servers aimed at compute-intensive workloads such as SAP’s HANA in-memory platform. The new systems, announced May 5, coincide with Intel’s launch of its latest high-end server chip, the Xeon E7 v3 processor, which officials with the giant chip maker said offers six times the performance […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said it was about three years ago that he saw a transition beginning in the industry—the digitization of business—that would put the focus on the network, the sweet spot for his company for more than two decades. Trends such as IT mobility, big data, social networking, the Internet of things […]

After months of speculation, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina made her presidential bid official May 4, announcing her intentions on Twitter and launching a Website for her campaign. Fiorina announced her candidacy the same day that conservative firebrand Ben Carson also entered the race for the Republican nomination, with the two joining three others—Sens. Marco […]

John Chambers, who in his two decades as CEO of Cisco Systems has seen the company become the dominant player in a fast-changing network infrastructure space, will step down from his position in July and will be replaced by Chuck Robbins, currently senior vice president of worldwide operations at the company. Cisco’s board of directors […]

When Chalan Aras thinks about the future of wide-area networks, he sees an infrastructure under increasing pressure caused by everything from growing IT mobility and cloud computing to bandwidth-intensive applications like video to the Internet of things. Aras also sees organizations that want their technology vendors to come up with solutions that are easy to […]

10 Years After IBM PC Deal Lenovo Keeps on Evolving by Jeffrey Burt In the Beginning, There Was Legend The company launched in Beijing in November 1984 with the name Legend, and over the years it grew into China’s largest PC vendor. It went public in 1994. Legend Becomes Lenovo By 2002, CEO Yang and […]

Broadcom officials are sampling new 802.11ac Wave 2 chips as demand for better wireless connections continue to rise. The company this week announced a new lineup of 5G WiFi Wave 2 chips for enterprise wireless access points (APs) that officials said will touch a broad range of segments of the enterprise and cloud wireless LAN […]