Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems is rolling out new managed security services, the latest move by the vendor as it looks to build out its larger data center solutions capabilities. The giant networking vendor for the past several years has been expanding its security offerings, much of it done under the direction of Chris Young, senior vice president […]

Elias Bernardino is the executive director of IS for Santa Fe (N.M.) Public Schools, a system that includes 14,000 students, 2,700 employees and 34 sites—including 32 schools—with 47 miles separating the two farthest buildings. When Bernardino took over the position a couple of years ago, his predecessor had in place a plan to upgrade the […]

Samsung Electronics and Globalfoundries are partnering to jointly develop 14-nanometer processors that feature a three-dimensional transistor architecture, a move that will challenge top chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and will put more pressure on Intel’s growing foundry business. Globalfoundries will license Samsung’s latest chip design, which includes a 14nm FinFET architecture that is designed to […]

Intel executives spent much of their conference call with analysts and journalists April 15 talking about their strategy around “contra revenues”—the rebates the chip maker is giving tablet manufacturers as incentives to build devices powered by Intel silicon. Two days later, officials with Advanced Micro Devices briefly touched on Intel’s efforts, but made it known […]

Advanced Micro Devices has begun sampling its ARM-based 64-bit “Seattle” server processor and plans to begin shipping the chip in the fourth quarter. In a conference call with analysts and journalists April 17 to discuss the company’s first-quarter financial numbers, AMD executives said they are seeing increasing interest in Seattle, which the vendor first disclosed […]

Advanced Micro Devices’ run of consecutive profitable quarters stopped at two as the company continued to be hurt by the contraction in the worldwide PC market, but revenues in the first quarter were buoyed by continued strong sales of game consoles powered by AMD chips. The chip maker on April 17 reported revenues of $1.4 […]

For Bethany Mayer, openness is a key factor when talking about network-functions virtualization, and a significant differentiator for Hewlett-Packard against other vendors in the increasingly competitive market. Mayer is senior vice president and general manager of HP’s new Network Functions Virtualization group, a unit she was put in charge of in February after several years […]

Nvidia is releasing the latest version of its CUDA toolkit that company officials said features some of the platform’s most significant improvements, including unified memory. CUDA is designed to enable developers to create software for computing systems that leverage GPU accelerators. CUDA 6 not only includes support for unified memory, but also for Nvidia’s new […]

Advanced Micro Devices is demonstrating its upcoming next-generation Opteron X APU running Fedora Linux, a move that company officials expect will help persuade more organizations to move their servers to the x86 APU architecture. AMD is showing off the new server chip, code-named “Berlin,” at Red Hat Summit 2014 in San Francisco April 16. The […]

Intel officials saw some good news in the first three months of the year—its PC business began to stabilize, the data center group continued to show strong gains and its new Internet of things business unit, while small, had strong revenue gains. However, Intel officials had a mixed bag when it comes to the important […]

Juniper Networks reportedly is considering selling off its Junos Pulse mobile security business as part of its larger effort to streamline the company. According to a report from Reuters, the world’s second-largest networking vendor has tapped financial services firm UBS AG to help the company find a buyer for the Junos Pulse business, which anonymous […]

Broadcom and Quantenna Communications are looking to speed up WiFi wireless networks that are under increasing pressure from the growing use of video, the skyrocketing numbers of connected mobile devices and the rapid increase in data moving across the networks. Broadcom officials on April 15 announced the company’s 5G WiFi XStream chip platform, which will […]