Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard officials made headlines in 2011 when they announced Project Moonshot, an effort to create ultra-low-power servers that would include systems powered by ARM-based chips, a surprising move considering the tech giant’s long history with Intel. However, HP in April announced the first Moonshot server modules, which were running on Intel’s S1200 “Centerton” Atom system-on-a-chip […]

Intel officials are rolling out a range of new data center products, including the latest Atom processor for microservers and other systems, as the company pushes forward with its efforts to evolve from a general-purpose chip maker to a supplier of infrastructure products for cloud-based environments. During an event Sept. 4 in San Francisco, company […]

NEC officials say the company has developed data center cooling technology that can drive down the power consumption of air conditioners by as much as 50 percent. The company announced the multistage technology Sept. 3, with officials saying that it not only efficiently removes the heat generated by compute resources installed in racks, but that […]

Intel officials are expected to announce on Sept. 4 the availability of “Avoton,” the company’s next-generation Atom processor aimed at the growing ultra-low-power server space that rival chip maker ARM and its partners also have their eyes on. The microserver space promises to be a heavily contested market as demand for such systems grow and […]

ARM is buying Cadence’s PANTA display controller cores, a move that will give a boost to ARM’s mobile chip development. ARM announced the deal Sept. 3, with company officials noting that ARM co-developed the PANTA lineup of high-resolution display processor cores and scaling coprocessor IP cores. “Display technology is critical to the mobile consumer’s user […]

Just over a week before Dell shareholders are scheduled—once again—to vote on CEO Michael Dell’s $25 billion deal to buy the company and take it private, three shareholder proxy firms are reaffirming their support of the proposal. The board of director’s Special Committee, assigned to negotiate with Michael Dell and financial backer Silver Lake Partners, […]

VMware’s introduction Aug. 26 of its NSX network virtualization platform ignited another round of speculation over whether the partnership between the company and networking giant Cisco Systems was fraying as the vendors compete in new markets. VMware’s software-based offering—a combination of its own technology and that acquired last year when company bought software-defined networking (SDN) […]

Imagination Technologies, armed with the MIPS chip technology it bought last year, reportedly is preparing to take on Intel and ARM in the burgeoning market for low-power server processors. Speaking at a press conference the same week as the Hot Chips 2013 conference at Stanford University in California, Imagination CEO Hossein Yassaie said his company […]

Vocalocity and ShoreTel are the fastest growing providers in a growing unified communications-as-a-service market, according to numbers from market research firm Synergy Market Group. Synergy found that the unified communications-as-a-service market grew 22 percent in the second quarter over the same period last year, and that Vocalocity—which sells voice-over-IP technology (VOIP)—and ShoreTel saw revenue growth […]

Some 25 million people this fall will be playing in fantasy football leagues, an industry that will generate $1.1 billion in revenues. Technology is driving participation in fantasy football, with a recent Intel study showing that 75 percent of participants want real-time, detailed data to help them in their leagues. Seventy percent of those surveyed […]

Count chip maker Broadcom as another tech vendor that sees a wide-open future for wearable technology. Broadcom officials in recent days have pushed to make their ambitions in the nascent market known, from unveiling a new wireless platform aimed at smart wearable components to having CEO Scott McGregor out front to publicly speak about where […]

Hewlett-Packard is offering SAP’s HANA in-memory database technology as a cloud service as well as another service to help businesses migrate their data to HANA. The company’s HP As-a-Service Solution for SAP HANA will run in an HP-managed cloud either as a virtual private cloud or a managed private cloud operating in an HP data […]