Jeff Burt

Intel’s Kaby Lake Chips Designed to Drive Thinner, Lighter PCs Here’s a look at Intel’s Kaby Lake 7th Generation Core Processors, designed to help spur the development of PCs for the so-called “immersive internet.” Introducing Kaby Lake Navin Shenoy, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s Client Computing Group (CCG), holds a 7th Generation […]

Nvidia is partnering with Chinese internet company Baidu to create an artificial intelligence-based computing platform for autonomous cars that will include cloud-to-car connectivity and high-definition mapping. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Baidu CEO Robin Li unveiled the partnership Aug. 31 at the Baidu World Conference in Beijing, saying they will apply technologies from each company […]

Dell is growing its portfolio of converged infrastructure offerings with a new system that officials say is designed to give businesses the flexibility and simplicity they’re looking for in their data centers. The Dell Validated System for Virtualization, unveiled this week at the VMworld 2016 show, gives customers a range of configuration options to ensure […]

Cisco Systems, which has been nibbling at the edges of the growing container market, is now jumping into the space with the acquisition of an eight-person startup that is less than two years old and launched its first product in June. Officials with the tech vendor this week announced its acquisition of ContainerX, whose technology […]

Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 821 mobile processor will offer improvements in CPU and graphics speeds, support the chip maker’s virtual reality technology and likely begin appearing in new smartphones later this year. Company officials first unveiled the Snapdragon 821 in July, saying the new system-on-a-chip (SoC) will be more of a complement than a replacement for […]

Dell Technologies is set to complete its $63 billion acquisition of EMC next week after Chinese regulators gave their approval for the deal. The two companies on Sept. 7 will close what is the largest deal in tech industry history, and will create a massive company that Dell officials expect will be able to better […]

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich at the company’s annual developer show earlier this month showed off systems running on the vendor’s upcoming “Kaby Lake” processors and said products powered by the chips would hit the market later this year. On Aug. 30 Intel officials took another step in that direction, officially rolling out the 7th Generation […]

BOSTON—Hewlett Packard Enterprise is continuing to expand its capabilities in big data analytics as part of what officials have called a pivot in the way the company is approaching the fast-growing space. At the tech vendor’s Big Data Conference 2016 here Aug. 30, HPE officials unveiled enhancements to the Haven OnDemand machine learning platform it […]

CloudGenix officials want to make it easier and more secure for enterprises’ remote offices to directly access applications from the cloud and to enforce the security, performance and compliance requirements of those applications. The company on Aug. 30 introduced the Instant On (ION) 3000v, which officials said is a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) platform that virtualizes […]

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—On the fifth floor of a former newspaper building in this old port city on Massachusetts’ southern coast, Chris Rezendes and his colleagues are working hard to bring the benefits of the internet of things to smaller businesses. Rezendes (pictured) and the others at INEX Advisors’ IoT Impact Labs are working with a […]

Most service providers are quickly embracing network virtualization technologies that are designed to make their network infrastructures more programmable, scalable, agile and affordable, according to analysts with IHS Markit. In a survey of service providers this month, all respondents said they planned to deploy network-functions virtualization (NFV) technologies at some point, and 81 percent said […]

Dell Inc. is now Dell Technologies. Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell in May announced that the tech vendor would change its name as it pursued buying storage data vendor EMC and its family of federated companies in a massive deal worth around $62 billion. Dell made the announcement during the first day of the […]