Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard is continuing to rapidly expand its cloud services offering under the Helion brand name, most recently rolling out a scaled-down version of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering. HP this week unveiled Helion Managed Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Lean, a cloud service that is aimed at midsize businesses and enterprises that are looking to move such jobs […]

Advanced Micro Devices this week unveiled a new powerful graphics card aimed at servers running in high-performance computing environments and that will compete with Nvidia’s Tesla K40 GPU. According to AMD officials, the FirePro S9150 server card offers up to 2.53 teraflops (one trillion floating point operations per second) of double-precision peak performance aimed at […]

VMware and Arista Networks are expanding their partnership to help drive adoption of network virtualization, including VMware’s year-old NSX platform. The two companies on Aug. 8 announced what officials said is the third phase of their ongoing relationship, which started in 2010 with the integration of VMware’s ESX, vSphere and vCloud products, and continued two […]

Intel was the victim of a hoax this week when a fake press release was sent out to reporters saying the world’s largest chip maker was pulling back on an almost $6 billion investment in Israel in response to the country’s actions during the latest fighting in Gaza. The fake press release, which was presented […]

Dell over the past couple of years has been among the highest-profile server makers looking to help bring 64-bit ARM-based chips into the data center. The vendor has a number of projects underway—including those dubbed “Copper” and “Zinc”—demonstrating systems powered by ARM processors, and in February announced a proof-of-concept effort that enables organizations and programmers […]

The first week in May was a big one for the Internet of things in Massachusetts. Actually, it was officially “Internet of Things Week” in the state, as proclaimed by Gov. Deval Patrick and wrapped around a number of events in Boston and Cambridge meant to celebrate the coming boom of highly connected devices and […]

Red Hat officials are looking to fuel the push of ARM’s chip architecture into the data center through a partner program designed to encourage chip companies, hardware manufacturers and software makers to create a single platform for 64-bit ARM systems. The Linux software vendor’s Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program was launched July 30 […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials, two years after announcing plans to make server chips based on ARM’s architecture, is unveiling the first of those processors as part of a development kit aimed at software makers. The developer kit, announced July 30, comes six months after the company first introduced its Opteron A1100-Series “Seattle” system-on-a-chip (SoC), a […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out new chips aimed at gamers and PC enthusiasts who are looking to build desktops that are powerful, small and inexpensive. Included in the rollout of the new accelerated processing units (APUs) July 31 is the vendor’s A10-7800, a fourth-generation A-Series “Kaveri” processor that includes 12 compute cores—four CPUs and […]

BOSTON—Businesses worldwide are rushing to adopt big data technologies, hoping to be able to mine and analyze the mountains of information they’re generating to achieve greater efficiencies, save money and make faster and better business decisions. And big data is big business. IDC analysts expects the big data market to hit $32.4 billion by 2017 […]

IBM, AT&T and Applied Communications Sciences have developed a technology that could reduce the time needed for networking cloud environments to seconds, creating elastic bandwidth capabilities between data centers to handle spikes in traffic. The proof-of-concept, unveiled by the three companies July 29, was developed as part of a 7-year-old program of the U.S. Defense […]

Cisco Systems officials say the company is days away from making its Application Centric Infrastructure technology generally available—just about a year after the company first introduced its answer to the growing network virtualization trend. Cisco will begin shipping its Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) and prepackaged Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) “starter kits” July 31, according […]