Jeff Burt

Dell EMC is turning to Advanced Micro Devices and its Epyc processors to power three new servers that company officials are targeting at the network edge and at high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The new systems, announced this week, grows Dell EMC’s 14th-generation portfolio and gives enterprises another processor option beyond Intel. They also reinforce the […]

10 Key Benefits of Passive Optical LANs for Enterprise Connectivity The ongoing digital transformation within enterprises is putting increasing pressure on IT executives to get more performance and bandwidth; greater security, scalability and reliability—and, of course, lower costs of the enterprise network infrastructure. The cloud, the internet of things (IoT), big data analytics, connected cars […]

The scientific and tech communities for many years have been talking about the much-anticipated evolution to exascale computing. Now governments and vendors have spent billions of dollars developing hardware and software innovations that will make up the infrastructure of exascale systems that promise to be 50 times faster than some of the most powerful supercomputers […]

Riverbed Technology officials over the past couple of years have tried to differentiate the company in the highly competitive and fast-growing software-defined WAN market by expanding its reach in the larger distributed network space. The company early last year acquired Ocedo, which produced gateways, switches, access points and a management system for SD-WAN and software-defined […]

Oracle and Fujitsu are unveiling a new family of high-end enterprise servers under the Fujitsu brand and powered by the latest version of the Japanese tech vendor’s SPARC64 processors. Officials with both companies April 4 introduced Fujitsu’s SPARC M12 lineup, which initially will consist of two systems that are aimed at a broad array of […]

Broadcom, Qualcomm Latest Acquirers in Busy Chip Space As competitors gobble each other up to boost their market share and IT, the semiconductor space is consolidating. Here’s a look at some notable acquisition deals. Qualcomm Gets Ready to Take the Wheel Qualcomm’s $47 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors will give it a boost in such […]

Advanced Micro Devices is targeting content creators in such areas as gaming and virtual reality with the latest high-end graphics cards for workstations and similar systems. AMD officials this week announced that the Radeon Pro WX Series of professional graphics cards, which are based on the company’s 14-nanometer Polaris architecture, are available. They will address […]

The Thread Group wants to encourage members of the consortium to embrace its networking protocol for the internet of things by rolling out an initial hardware reference test bed and test harness and by opening up access to its test lab. By giving members these tools, Thread Group officials are hoping to drive adoption of […]

Nutanix is adding network visualization and improved security capabilities to its Enterprise Cloud Platform to make it easier for organizations to see and secure applications running on their networks. Officials with the newly public company said in June that they were looking to push Nutanix beyond its roots as a software provider for the fast-growing […]

Cypress Semiconductor is coming out with the first enhancement of the internet of things platform technology it acquired earlier this year from Broadcom, offering developers multiple wireless connectivity options. Company officials unveiled the latest iteration of the Wireless Interconnect Connectivity for Embedded Devices—or WICED (pronounced “wicked”)—that they said will give developers a single environment for […]