Jeff Burt

Entegra Technologies, a startup out of Plano, Texas, is rolling out a new tablet armed with a modular design and that is aimed at businesses and government agencies rather than consumers. The company is bringing its CrossfirePro system into the teeth of a highly competitive space that features such large and established players like Apple […]

Nvidia’s Tegra K1, the powerful mobile chip introduced at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in January, could make its way into low-power dense servers, according to the company’s CEO. During a conference call with analysts and journalists to discuss Nvidia’s first-quarter financial numbers, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that while the 192-GPU core processor—which will come […]

Riverbed Technology officials in November 2013 announced that the company, which had made its name in the WAN optimization space, was expanding its product and market strategies to better reflect its growth over the past few years into other markets, from network management to application performance. Six months later, Riverbed—which company officials say is now […]

BOSTON—IBM is using technology leveraged from its Watson cognitive computing initiative and its work in high-performance computing as the foundation for its first significant foray into the software-defined storage arena. At an event here May 12, IBM executives unveiled “Elastic Storage,” a technology they said will address the needs of businesses and service providers that […]

BOSTON—The recent executive shakeups at enterprise software giant SAP hit the company’s cloud computing business particularly hard, with some of the top people in that unit exiting. Vishal Sikka, SAP’s CTO in charge of products and innovation and a key developer the company’s HANA in-memory database, resigned May 4. HANA has proved to be a […]

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and other executives have pointed to the burgeoning Internet of things—or what they call the Internet of everything—as the next significant transition in the tech industry and a direction that will be worth as much as $19 trillion for businesses worldwide by 2020. The officials have said the company’s technologies […]

Wide-area networks are getting increasing attention from vendors looking to leverage software-defined networking capabilities to make configuring and managing this increasingly complex part of the network easier. Fujitsu is the latest company to unveil solutions for better wide-area network (WAN) products that use software-defined networking (SDN) principles, with the introduction May 9 of Network Virtuora […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Emil Sturniolo doesn’t want to see the burgeoning Internet of things go the same way the Internet did almost 30 years ago, at least not when it comes to security. It was the late 1980s when concerns were being raised about security around the then-nascent Internet, but most people involved with its development were […]

Certification Lab to Be a Focus at Open Compute Symposium by Jeffrey Burt Welcome to the OCP Certification Lab Rad, left, and Smolenski stand in the main room of the UTSA Open Compute certification lab, which has been operating for about six months. Mapping the Future Rad takes to the whiteboard at the UTSA lab […]

SAN ANTONIO—At first glance, there’s not much to see at the months-old Open Compute Lab here at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Off the main area is a windowless room populated by a few rows of cubicles, with a whiteboard colorfully decorated with various sketches, designs and notes stretching across one wall. Off […]

Cisco Systems and Citrix Systems, whose partnership already includes work in such areas as desktop virtualization, cloud services and mobile device management, are now coming together around mobile infrastructure. At the Citrix Synergy 2014 show in Los Angeles on May 6, the two companies announced Cisco Mobile Workspace Solution with Citrix, combining Cisco’s computing, networking […]

Citrix Systems is rolling various virtual application and desktop technologies, mobile management tools and communications capabilities into a single solution designed to make it easier for organizations to give mobile workers access to the corporate network and data. Citrix’s introduction of its Workspace Suite was one of several announcements the vendor made at the Citrix […]