Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard and Alcatel-Lucent will leverage networking equipment from each vendor to develop solutions for enterprises and service providers looking to build infrastructures in distributed cloud environments. The two companies announced the deal Dec. 3 from the HP Discover 2014 show in Barcelona, Spain. As part of the alliance, Alcatel-Lucent will incorporate some of its IP […]

Intel is continuing its aggressive expansion into wearable devices and the Internet of things, with the latest step being a partnership with fashion eyewear designer Luxottica Group to make smart glasses. The companies announced the deal Dec. 3 from the International Luxury Conference in Miami, with officials saying they expect the first product from the […]

Hewlett-Packard is bulking up its EliteBook business notebook portfolio with new slimmer and lighter offerings. HP, which is in the midst of its HP Discover 2014 show in Barcelona, Spain, is rolling out its new EliteBook 1020 and 1020 Special Edition (SE), which measure 15.7 mm and weigh in at 2.2 pounds, the latest example […]

Three years after announcing plans to enable businesses to run their mission-critical workloads on x86 systems, Hewlett-Packard officials are unveiling Superdome and NonStop systems powered by high-end Intel Xeon processors. Until now, HP has standardized its Integrity line of high-end computers on Intel’s Itanium line of processors, an architecture that essentially serves only HP and […]

Lenovo, in the wake of its $2.1 billion acquisition of IBM’s x86-based System x business, is now the world’s third-largest server maker. However, the company isn’t putting aside its own ThinkServer portfolio or its focus on small and midsize businesses. The company on Dec. 2 rolled out its next-generation ThinkServer RD350 and RD450 rack systems […]

Carly Fiorina reportedly is looking to see if her time as Hewlett-Packard’s CEO, a 10-point loss in her only political race and her increasing involvement in Republican Party politics for the past decade or so will be enough to elevate her above what promises to be a crowded GOP field and give her a shot […]

Broadcom, Brocade, Aruba Networks and Avaya are among the founders of a new industry consortium that wants to accelerate the adoption of 2.5 and 5 Gigabit Ethernet speeds in enterprise-level wireless products to help speed up the movement of traffic over wireless networks. The bulk of wireless networks in enterprises are based on 1GbE. At […]

Cavium is making its ThunderX 64-bit ARM server chips generally available, and is rolling out reference architectures to make it easier for system makers to embrace the multicore systems-on-a-chip. Cavium first unveiled the ThunderX chips in June at the Computex show, saying the ARM-based SoCs give server OEMs an alternative to the Intel x86-based processors […]

Intel is bulking up its security and software capabilities with the acquisition of PasswordBox, a small ID management startup whose technology enables users to do such tasks as log into Websites without having to memorize their passwords and protect personal information online. Intel officials announced the deal Dec. 1, adding that the PasswordBox business will […]

Cisco Systems officials have spent much of the year talking about extending the cloud with “the fog.” In January, the networking giant introduced its fog computing vision, the idea of bringing cloud computing capabilities—from applications and data analytics to processing, networking and storage—to the edge of the network, closer to the rapidly growing number of […]

Much of the attention at the SC14 supercomputing show last week in New Orleans centered on the release of the Top500 list, a roster of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The twice-yearly list is leveraged by system vendors and component makers to tout their technologies and by countries for bragging rights. However, in the computing world—not […]

Qualcomm might be a few months away from putting its upcoming 64-bit ARM-based Snapdragon 810 Ultra HD processor into commercially available smartphones and tablets, but officials with the chip maker want to get it into the hands of device and software makers now. Qualcomm, the top chip maker for mobile devices, is rolling out early […]