Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard is just several months away from breaking in half and creating two Fortune 50 companies. One of those companies now has a new logo. HP CEO Meg Whitman is unveiling the logo for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the company that she will run and that will focus on enterprise IT products and services, such as […]

Riverbed Technology officials are rolling out a software tool they say will give businesses the complete and single view they need to effectively manage the performance of their applications. IT administrators currently are able to get performance data from the network end-user experience and application domains, but that data tends to be contained in silos, […]

Hewlett-Packard reportedly is in discussions to sell a majority stake in its H3C Technologies networking subsidiary to Chinese chip maker Tsinghua Unigroup. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Tsinghua—a venture in China that runs Chinese chip designers RDA Microelectronics and Spreadtrum Communications—could pay HP as much as $5 billion for a 51 […]

Nokia will buy Alcatel-Lucent in a $16.6 billion deal that has been years in the making and promises to create a significant player in a rapidly evolving networking market dealing with such fast-moving trends as mobile computing, the cloud, the Internet of things and software-defined networking. Talk about Nokia possibly acquiring Alcatel-Lucent began at least […]

For all the work Intel has done to build out its data center business, expand into mobile devices and embrace growth areas like the Internet of Things, the company’s first-quarter financials indicate that much of the giant chip maker’s fortunes are still tied to the struggling PC market. The April 14 financial report shows strong […]

Hewlett-Packard executives are continuing to try to clarify the company’s position on its role in public clouds following a public story last week suggesting the tech giant was pulling out of the market in deference to giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. In the April 7 article in The New York Times, Bill Hilf, senior […]

Nokia Solutions and Networks is deep in negotiations to buy Alcatel-Lucent in a move that would create a significant networking player that could push back at the growth by Ericsson and Huawei Technologies in Europe and Cisco Systems’ dominance in the United States, as well as make inroads into the important China market. Both companies […]

The reports that negotiations between Intel and Altera faltered didn’t mean the end of speculation about Intel wanting to buy somebody to build out its mobile capabilities. Now speculation has turned to Broadcom, which would offer expertise not only in chips for mobile devices, but also in the networking infrastructure space. However, it would come […]

Fujitsu in 2014 announced it was turning what had once been semiconductor clean rooms in a former manufacturing plant in Japan into farms that would grow hydroponic lettuce. Converting the Akisai Plant Factory into a facility that leverages cutting-edge agricultural techniques was a way of both creating low-potassium lettuce that could be eaten by patients […]

Count chip maker Qualcomm among those tech companies under pressure from investors to split up their businesses. According to the Wall Street Journal, activist investor Jana Partners is pushing Qualcomm executives to separate its chip business from its patent-licensing unit, part of a larger effort to grow the company’s stock price, change how executives are […]

This was a busy news week for Intel and supercomputers. Around the same time that the Department of Energy announced that it had awarded a $200 million contract to Intel and systems maker Cray to build a powerful supercomputer for the Argonne National Laboratory, news also broke that the U.S. government is blocking Intel and […]

Lenovo, now armed with IBM’s x86 server business, is building out its enterprise business with new automated systems management software and two top-of-rack network switches designed to drive performance in the company’s server and storage offerings. Lenovo officials this week unveiled XClarity, a software solution aimed at enterprises, service providers and government agencies that centralizes […]