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Huawei Buys SDN Business of Irish Firm Amartus

Huawei Technologies is bolstering its network virtualization ambitions by buying the software-defined networking business of Irish software developer Amartus.Huawei officials announced the deal July...

Cisco to Buy Contract Software Provider MaintenanceNet

Cisco Systems' buying spree is continuing this week, with the networking giant spending $139 million to buy a company that offers cloud-based software to...

HP Enterprise Leader Veghte to Leave Company Ahead of Split

Bill Veghte, the executive who since October 2014 has been leading Hewlett-Packard's separation strategies as it prepares to break into two, will leave the...

Police Use Fitness Tracker Data in Investigating a Reported Crime

Police in Lancaster County, Pa., used data from a Fitbit activity tracker to help determine that a 43-year-old woman who filed a report about...

Cisco to Buy Solar Power for California HQ

Cisco Systems next year will begin buying energy from a 20-megawatt solar power facility that will be located on 153 acres in the Sonoran...

Nokia’s $16.6 Billion Deal for Alcatel-Lucent Gets DOJ Approval

U.S. regulators have given their blessing to Nokia's proposed acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, according to the two companies.The Department of Justice granted the networking vendors...

Brocade Ditches Vyatta, Vistapointe, SteelApp Names

Brocade over the past several years has aggressively built up its networking software portfolio, starting with the purchase of Vyatta in 2012.The Vyatta acquisition...

Wind River Opens IoT Marketplace for VxWorks OS

Wind River is creating an online app store for solutions that are based on the company's VxWorks operating system for the Internet of things.The...

Fujitsu Offers M10 Servers Through Loaner Program

Fujitsu is offering its M10 servers through a loaner program that lets organizations bring in the systems for free to test them out in...

If Apple Music Works as Well as iTunes, I Want It

Apple Music just made its debut at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), and already some critics are saying that it's just like existing...