Jeff Burt

The two companies that came out of the breakup of Hewlett-Packard last year are being accused by four ex-employees of age discrimination in the massive layoffs that started before the company split in half and that continued after the restructuring. In the 25-page lawsuit filed Aug. 18 in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., […]

Vidyo officials in the fall will roll out a video platform-as-a-service that they say will give developers the tools and services they need to more easily embed enterprise-grade video conferencing capabilities into their applications, business processes and smart, connected devices. The company currently has Vidyo.io in alpha, and is beginning to open it up to […]

Arista Networks didn’t find any relief this week from another U.S. regulator over a federal ruling this summer that the company infringed on Cisco Systems patents and an ordering banning Arista from importing the offending products. The U.S. Trade Representative ruled that the order issued in February by a single administrative judge with International Trade […]

At IDF, PCs Take a Back Seat to Drones, VR, AI, Driverless Cars This year’s Intel Developer Forum had a decidedly different flavor to it—with fewer PCs but more drones, cars and other connected devices on display. Virtual Reality in the Real World Krzanich introduced Project Alloy, a push to create an entirely self-contained virtual […]

Nvidia is driving forward its ambitions in the fast-growing autonomous vehicle space with a powerful new mobile processor that pairs its latest Denver 2.0 CPU and Pascal-based GPUs to power deep-learning applications that will make cars smart enough to recognize and respond to obstacles such as bikers and pedestrians. Nvidia engineers unveiled the details of […]

Talari Networks is adding greater security and application availability in its software-defined WAN portfolio through collaborations with Palo Alto Networks and Data2Go Wireless. The product integration effort with Palo Alto and Data2Go comes through Talari’s Unite Technology Alliance program, an initiative launched by the vendor in May that is designed to encourage other tech companies […]

IBM officials want to remind businesses that Intel’s x86 processors aren’t the only server chips on the market. Company engineers were at the Hot Chips 2016 show in Cupertino, Calif., this week to talk about Big Blue’s upcoming Power9 processors, which are scheduled to hit the market next year and promise a broad range of […]

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are opening up another front in the sprawling competition between Intel and Nvidia that has stretched from the data center and high-performance computing environments to autonomous vehicles. Both chip makers see the nascent artificial intelligence (AI) space—and the machine learning that helps enable it—as key growth areas and have made […]

Japanese chip maker Renesas reportedly is in the final stages of a deal to buy U.S. rival Intersil for about $3 billion as it looks to bolster its position in the growing automotive technology space. Reports from numerous news sites this week said the company, which competes with the likes of NXP and Infineon and […]

Officials with Advanced Micro Devices went to the Hot Chips 2016 show to preach the benefits of “Zen.” Company executives last week were in San Francisco at a hotel not too far from where larger rival Intel was holding its annual developer conference to demonstrate the new Zen microarchitecture, which will form the basis of […]

Pivot3’s hyperconverged infrastructure software has been certified to run on Cisco Systems’ integrated data center solutions. Company officials announced Aug. 23 that the company’s vSTAC OS software has been given compatibility certification with Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) and UCS Mini computing platforms, a move that gives Pivot3 another avenue for selling its software into […]

SimpliVity is expanding the capabilities of its hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio to handle workloads from large enterprises through new products that include an all-flash offering, improved data protection and greater support for desktop virtualization environments. The new offerings, announced Aug. 23 and available in the fourth quarter, further broaden the reach of SimpliVity’s technologies by enabling […]