Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard is recalling about 6 million laptop power cords after more than two dozen reports of overheating that resulted in some claims of minor burns to people and property damage had been made. HP issued the recall Aug. 26, and has set up a Website dedicated to the recall effort. According to a statement issued […]

Cray is unveiling a powerful new cluster supercomputer packed with GPU accelerators and offering a peak performance of more than 11 teraflops per node to address increasing demands for more performance and scalability in such business segments as oil and gas, financial services and life sciences. The new CS-Storm offers up to eight Tesla K40 […]

Avaya and Hewlett-Packard are partnering to deliver a portfolio of services around unified communications, contact centers and infrastructure modernization to enterprises. Officials with Avaya and HP Enterprise Services announced Aug. 26 that they will leverage HP’s strength in delivering services and Avaya’s lineup of unified communications (UC) and contact center technologies to create a portfolio […]

Intel officials at the Computex show in June broached the idea of “wire-free” computing, a vision of a world where computing devices do not have to use cables to hook up to displays, keyboards or mice, and where they don’t need to be plugged into a socket to recharge. The chip maker recently gave a […]

Bethany Mayer, who in February left her job as head of Hewlett-Packard’s $2.5 billion networking business to run the vendor’s newly created unit for network-functions virtualization, is leaving the company to take over network optimization specialist Ixia. Ixia officials announced the appointment Aug. 21, and said that Mayer will become the company’s president and CEO, […]

Intel’s security group is unveiling a tool that is designed to make it easier for businesses to secure their software-defined data center environments. The Intel Security Controller is the first product from the Intel Security unit, which is largely based on the McAfee technology the chip maker inherited when it bought the security company in […]

Dell is embracing VMware’s NSX network virtualization technology as part of a larger effort with VMware to fuel the adoption of what company executives call the software-defined data center. On the first day of the VMworld 2014 show Aug. 25, Dell officials announced that the giant tech vendor, in partnership with Cumulus Networks, is now […]

Enterprises are continuing to struggle with issues around their increasingly mobile environments, from the number of new smartphones and tablets that are hitting the market—and finding their way into the corporate scene—to the challenges of managing the devices and data that lies within them, according to Sean Wisdom, global director of mobility solutions at Dell. […]

Advanced Micro Devices, Oracle and Fujitsu were among the tech vendors that used the Hot Chips 2014 show this week to give more details about their upcoming server processors. AMD officials released more information about the company’s Opteron A1100 “Seattle” chip, the company’s first venture using ARM’s low-power 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture in a processor aimed […]

Samsung is making a stronger push into the burgeoning Internet of things space with the planned acquisition of SmartThings, a 2-year-old startup that has created an open platform for the smart home. Samsung is paying a reported $200 million for SmartThings, which will run independently as part of Samsung’s Open Innovation Center (OIC). SmartThings will […]

The NFL knows it has a challenge on its hands. Professional football’s popularity has never been higher, television viewership is increasing, 180 million people identify themselves as fans of the NFL and millions participate in fantasy football leagues every year. The NFL is now a $9 billion-a-year business. However, at the same time, attendance at […]

Dell is upgrading its high-end and mainstream workstations with Intel’s upcoming “Haswell” Xeon processors and next-generation graphics capabilities from Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia. At the Siggraph 2014 show, Dell officials announced the single-socket Precision Tower 5810, dual-socket 7810 and expandable 7910, and the 2U (3.5-inch) Precision Rack 7910 workstations, which they said also will […]