Jeff Burt

The first half of year has not been easy for supercomputer maker Cray. The company not only has been working in a high-end supercomputing market that is seeing a slowdown in demand, but also has been dealing with issues integrating new technologies—in particular chips from Intel and graphics technology from Nvidia—that could impact the delivery […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman once ran as a Republican for the California gubernatorial seat, served on the campaigns of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and N.J. Gov. Chris Christie and has used her considerable wealth to back other Republican candidates as well. Now Whitman says she will not only vote for Democratic candidate […]

Service providers and telecommunications companies have a new tool they can use in their efforts to transform their networks into highly scalable, agile and affordable infrastructures similar to those run by cloud providers. The Linux Foundation and the Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) recently spun out what had been a use case within the ON.Lab’s ONOS […]

HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Cisco, Nutanix Headline Crowded Hyperconverged Field Hyperconverged data center systems are the newest rage in the converged market space. Here’s a look at some of the top players in the market. HPE Focuses on the Midmarket Hewlett Packard Enterprise in March launched the Hyper Converged 380, which is built on the company’s […]

Juniper Networks is buying Aurrion to grow its capabilities in silicon photonics to help businesses better handle the growing demand for more network bandwidth from such trends as cloud computing and video streaming. Juniper officials announced the deal Aug. 2, saying that bringing Aurrion into the fold will help the company improve bandwidth capacity and […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise continues to restructure its core businesses and remake its executive team as officials look to streamline the giant tech vendor. Just over a month after announcing that longtime HPE veteran Martin Fink—who at the time was the company’s CTO and head of HP Labs—was retiring at the end of the year, HPE […]

Qualcomm has entered into an agreement with GuangDong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications, enabling the Chinese company to license the chip maker’s 3G and 4G technologies for its smartphones and other devices. The two companies on Aug. 1 announced the deal, in which OPPO will pay a royalty to Qualcomm to use its 3G WCDMA and CDMA2000 […]

CloudGenix officials are looking to accelerate the adoption of the company’s software-defined WAN products through the creation of a global channel program designed to grow the ecosystem around the technologies. The company announced the CloudGenix Partner Program Aug. 1, with officials noting that in the last eight weeks, more than 25 additional partners have joined […]

The ground underneath Hewlett Packard Enterprise continues to shift. According to separate reports citing unnamed sources, private equity groups are either interested in buying some software assets, including its Autonomy and Vertica, that HPE is said to be considering shedding or they are looking to buy the giant tech vendor outright for about $40 billion […]

The Thread Group and the Open Connectivity Foundation are the latest industry groups in the internet of things space to partner in hopes of bringing some unity to a fragmented market. The two industry consortiums this week announced they plan to work together in their efforts to drive interoperability between the tens of millions of […]

IT Pros Want Relief From Network Costs, Complexity, Talari Survey Says In a new survey, IT professionals said a reliable network is important to the success of their businesses and they rely on the WAN for their most important tasks. Networks Aren’t Cheap According to the survey, more than 40 percent of respondents said they […]

Car maker Tesla and Mobileye, which provides technologies for semiautonomous cars, will part ways in the wake of a fatal crash in Florida in May involving a self-driving test vehicle from Telsa using Mobileye products and a truck. The accident involving the Tesla Model S car killed the vehicle’s driver and came at a time […]