Jeff Burt

Brocade officials are keeping an eye on the not-so-distant future with the introduction of the company’s latest lineup of data center routers. The scalable and dense SLX 9850 family, unveiled this week, is designed not only to better manage the fast-growing amount of traffic coming onto corporate networks, but also to give enterprises greater visibility […]

Intel executives said revenue expectations for the third quarter are better than initially predicted, due in large part to an improving PC market. Company officials on Sept. 16 announced that they expect third-quarter revenue to be $15.6 billion—plus or minus $300 million—a significant improvement over the $14.9 billion originally offered in July. They cited replenishment […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is expanding its collaboration with Arista Networks by enabling customers and partners to buy Arista switches through HPE and by naming Arista as its preferred networking partner in software-defined infrastructure environments. Antonio Neri, executive vice president and general manager of HPE’s Enterprise Group, made the announcement this week at the vendor’s Global […]

Qualcomm officials want to accelerate the development of dual-camera smartphones powered by the vendor’s Snapdragon 820 and 821 chips with the development of a new technology package called Clear Sight. According to company officials, Clear Sight takes advantage of the Spectra image signal processor (ISP) in the Snapdragon systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) to offer a technique that […]

Dell Technologies in the second quarter overtook Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the number of servers shipped, though HPE held on to the top spot in terms of revenue for the three months, according to market numbers from analysts at Gartner and IDC. The two vendors, which are undertaking significant restructuring programs as they look to […]

Nvidia officials are looking to grab a larger share of the ever-expanding artificial intelligence space. At the company’s GPU Technology Conference in Beijing this week, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled two new GPUs that are specifically designed for the part of the deep learning process called “inference,” an area where the work is usually processed […]

Extreme Networks is growing its wireless LAN capabilities through its plan to acquire Zebra Technologies’ WLAN business, a move officials said not only will help fill out the vendor’s product portfolio but also its efforts to grow its presence in such markets as retail, transportation and hospitality. Extreme, which already has a wealth of wired […]

Riverbed Technology wants to help enterprises better navigate the sometimes-bumpy road from legacy data centers to software-based environments and the cloud. At the company’s Disrupt event this week, Riverbed officials unveiled a bulked-up SteelConnect software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) portfolio, a cloud-based application performance management (APM) SteelCentral offering that also includes end-user experience monitoring thanks to Riverbed’s […]

Cisco Systems and Apple are showing the first results of their year-long collaboration with new business communications features built into Apple’s newly released iOS 10 mobile operating system. Apple unveiled the new OS Sept. 13, and Cisco officials outlined a range of new capabilities that they said will make it easier for iPhone and iPad […]

Mushroom Networks and Masergy Communications are looking to grow their presence in a software-defined WAN market that is crowded, competitive and expected to grow rapidly over the next several years. Mushroom on Sept. 13 unveiled VNF Design Studio, a platform that gives service providers and large enterprises the tools to more easily build virtual network […]

Nvidia officials are looking to accelerate the development of self-driving cars with the release this week of a smaller version of the Drive PX 2 platform that was introduced earlier this year. At the company’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Beijing Sept. 12, Nvidia executives introduced the new single-processor Drive PX 2 that is designed […]

Chip maker Renesas Electronics is pushing into connected cars, the internet of things and other emerging markets with the planned acquisition of Intersil, the latest in a series of such deals in a processor space that is reacting to rapid changes in the tech industry. Renesas, a Japanese system-on-a-chip (SoC) maker, will buy U.S.-based Intersil […]