Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard is introducing new campus networking switches that officials say will give organizations the tools they need to deal with the network demands created by an increasingly mobile business environment. Unveiled April 27 at the Interop 2015 show in Las Vegas, HP’s 5400R zl2 v3 series—which will compete with rival Cisco Systems’ midrange Catalyst 4500 […]

The key parts of her resume are a controversial seven-year tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard and a failed run in 2010 to unseat U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in a campaign that included questions about a spotty past voting record. She also served as a campaign advisor for Sen. John McCain in his unsuccessful 2008 […]

Dell officials want to continue pushing any advantage the company has in the evolving market for networking platforms that can run operating systems from multiple vendors. It was just more than a year ago that Dell announced its Open Networking initiative, leveraging the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) to enable Cumulus Networks’ Linux-based OS to […]

The discussion around automotive safety is shifting away from physical features—such as crumple zones—to computer systems that can do things like apply the brakes before a collision occurs, according to Richard York, vice president of embedded marketing at chip designer ARM. In line with this shift, ARM announced it is licensing functional safety support across […]

Freescale Semiconductor is launching a network switching platform that combines the performance benefits of traditional switches with newer network virtualization technologies that promise greater manageability and flexibility. The trends in networking are moving rapidly toward software-defined networking (SDN) and network-functions virtualization (NFV), with an increasing emphasis on security for these highly virtualized environments, according to […]

Alcatel-Lucent’s decision to sell the bulk of its enterprise business to a Chinese investment company last year does not mean that Alcatel-Lucent is getting out of the enterprise business. It means that Alcatel-Lucent is able to approach enterprises in a new way that is free of its legacy PBX and communications models, according to company […]

Broadcom introduced the next generation of its Trident networking switch silicon on April 20. The company said the StrataXGS Trident-II+ Series systems-on-chip (SoCs) offers greater bandwidth, scalability and energy efficiency that enterprises are demanding as they move to 10GbE virtualized data centers and beyond. The new chips, which are currently sampling, also complement the silicon […]

Aruba Networks officials for more than a year have been tracking #GenMobile workers, the new generation of employees who are highly mobile, very collaborative and demand more flexible, non-traditional work environments. It’s this workforce that’s driving such trends as bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and always-on connectivity, and the workers are having an increasingly large impact on how […]

Juniper Networks is cranking up the speed of its SRX5800 Services Gateway to enable service providers and large enterprises to better address the demands for greater performance and security in increasingly unpredictable networks. Juniper officials said new hardware created for the gateway will double its available Internet Mix (IMIX) firewall to 2 terabits per second […]

ShoreTel is bringing enterprise communications to the Apple Watch. When the wearable device becomes available in stores April 24, among the many consumer-focused apps that will be available on the Apple Watch will be an enterprise-focused ShoreTel Mobility unified communications (UC) app. According to ShoreTel officials, Apple Watch users will be able to access their […]

Advanced Micro Devices is shedding its SeaMicro unit and getting out of the microserver business as officials continue to look for ways to stabilize the chip maker’s financial numbers. The decision comes just over three years after AMD spent $334 million to buy SeaMicro, a small company that was making small, dense and highly efficient […]

ARM and Imagination Technologies are making separate moves to address the connectivity and power efficiency demands created by the burgeoning Internet of things. ARM officials on April 16 said the chip designer is buying smaller firms Wicentric and Sunrise Micro Devices (SMD), and will leverage the work both companies have done with Bluetooth to create […]