Jeff Burt

As Ron Nash sees it, Pivot3 has been offering hyperconverged infrastructure products well before hyperconverged was a thing. The company, founded in 2003, began selling software-defined technologies, and several years later added processing to the mix, with many customers using Pivot3’s technology for surveillance workloads and virtual desktop environments. Flash forward a few years, and […]

Software maker PTC is building out its augmented reality platform with a new feature that enables enterprises to put a customizable code onto their products and adds support for Microsoft’s HoloLens technology and tablets that run Windows 10. Vuforia 6 is the company’s latest iteration of its platform for augmented reality (AR) development based on […]

Extreme Networks is rolling out a line of rugged network switches designed to provide continuous operation and high performance in harsh environments. The company this week unveiled the Industrial Services Switches, which officials said will sit in the vendor’s ExtremeSwitching family of products and round out Extreme’s portfolio of software-driven wired and wireless systems for […]

Google engineers are looking to combine drones and video conferencing. In a patent awarded to the tech giant this week, Google outlines the idea of a drone carrying a screen, video camera and audio capabilities through which video conferences can be conducted while the small device is maneuvered around the room. The drone could be […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying supercomputer maker SGI for $275 million in a bid to grow its capabilities in such areas as data analytics, high-performance computing and the cloud. The deal, announced Aug. 11, will bring HPE a range of systems—including SGI’s UV in-memory supercomputers and ICE distributed memory systems—that will complement its own portfolio […]

Intel executives are still pushing forward on their efforts to increase the diversity in the chip maker’s workforce, but as the numbers in the latest midyear report on the initiative indicate, it will take time. In the report released this week, the company saw progress in both hiring of women and underrepresented minorities and pay […]

Cypress Semiconductor officials stayed in-house to find a new CEO to replace T.J. Rodgers, who stepped down in April after 34 years of leading the company he founded. The naming of Hassane El-Khoury as president and CEO is the latest change at Cypress, which has been repositioning itself to be a larger player in a […]

Midokura is putting the ability to connect multiple OpenStack-based clouds and support for container platforms into the latest version of its network virtualization offering. Company officials on Aug. 10 said the enhancements in the company’s Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) software-defined networking (SDN) solution is designed to meet the growing demands being put on modern networks […]

Engineers at Fujitsu Laboratories have developed new software that can speed up deep learning projects run over multiple GPUs. According to Fujitsu Labs officials, tests have found that the software used with 16 and 64 GPUs are 14.7 to 27 times faster than using a single GPU to run deep learning workloads, with increases in […]

Rackspace Hosting has sold its website hosting business amid speculation that the entire company could be sold. Rackspace, which grew fast in the early years in part on the strength of its business hosting websites for companies, this week announced it had sold its Cloud Site unit to Liquid Web, a $90 million web hosting […]

Intel is ramping up its efforts in the small but fast-growing artificial intelligence space with the acquisition of 48-person startup Nervana Systems, which has been developing software and hardware technologies for machine learning. Intel officials announced the chip maker’s plans to acquire the San Diego, Calif.-based company Aug. 9, a week before their Intel Developer […]

Service provider EarthLink later this year will launch a software-defined WAN service that will be based on technologies from vendor VeloCloud. Officials with the network services provider said the new service is part of a larger effort to offer businesses tools to help reduce their costs and increase revenues through improved application performance, greater bandwidth […]