Jeff Burt

Oracle is working with Intel on a project designed to show that the combination of their technologies will enable communications service providers to operate carrier-grade networks in virtualized environments. Oracle Communications officials at the Oracle Industry Connect 2015 event in Washington, D.C., March 25 ran a demonstration of Oracle’s Communications Network Service Orchestration—which was released […]

HILLSBORO, Oregon—Intel executives are continuing to slowly release new details on the company’s upcoming Knights Landing offering, the next generation of its many-core Xeon Phi silicon product due out in the second half of the year. Knights Landing—which will be the follow-on to Intel’s current Knights Corner—will offer up to 384GB of native DDR4 memory […]

Rory Read, who spent more than three years as president and CEO of chip maker AMD after holding executive positions with Lenovo and IBM, will be Dell’s president and COO of worldwide commercial sales. Read will oversee the tech vendor’s global go-to-market efforts as well as channel sales planning and enablement. Dell also named Paul […]

Automotive Technology a Focus at Nvidia’s GTC Event by Jeffrey Burt Introducing Nvidia’s Drive PX Nvidia’s Huang holds up a Drive PX development board during his keynote address at GTC. The technology will augment current advanced driver assistant systems (ADAS), which among other things can autonomously apply brakes to avoid a collision. (Photo courtesy of […]

The stars of the first-ever OpenPower Foundation Summit this week were 15 pieces of hardware, lined up onstage as proof points of the speedy innovation happening within the 15-month-old consortium. The hardware—including servers, developer platforms, adapter cards and silicon—represented the broad range of companies that make up the 110-member group, which includes IBM, Nvidia, Google, […]

EMC may be in the mood to buy some networking, according to a pair of analysts with Bernstein Research. As questions around the storage giant’s relationship with networking vendor Cisco Systems continue to persist—including in the wake of EMC buying out the bulk of Cisco’s stake in the converged infrastructure joint venture VCE last year—EMC […]

OpenPower Group Puts Initial Hardware Products on Display By Jeffrey Burt Drawing a Crowd Journalists and analysts get a look at the more than 1 dozen pieces of hardware—from servers to adapter cards to silicon—created by IBM and other OpenPower members. First Box Out of the Box Tyan’s TN71-BP012 server will be the first OpenPower […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nvidia’s overarching theme throughout the GPU Technology Conference here this week has been deep learning, the idea that with the right technology and right algorithms, machines can learn from their experience, and adapt their behavior. During his keynote address March 17, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang folded everything he announced—from a new […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Desktop virtualization has a history of unfulfilled promise. The technology has been promoted for years as a way of helping employees become more productive while enabling IT departments to more easily safeguard and manage corporate data by keeping it centrally housed within the company’s data center. However, the user experience hasn’t always matched […]

Nvidia, OEM Partners Show How GPUs Are Used in Data Center by Jeffrey Burt Unveiling the New Offerings Huang, on stage during his keynote address at the GTC, talked about the Digits DevBox, which is powered by four Titan X GPUs. (Image courtesy of Nvidia) A Powerful New GPU Nvidia’s Titan X, which is available […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The OpenPower Foundation was launched 15 months ago with the promise of expanding the reach of IBM’s Power processor architecture and addressing the needs of scale-out computing environments. More than a year later, and armed with more than 110 members, OpenPower officials are ready to unveil the first fruits of their labor. At […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—There will come a day in the not-so-distant future when not only will there be autonomous cars that can drive themselves, but it will be illegal for people to take control of the vehicles, according to Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of automaker Tesla. By that time—which could be as few as 15 […]