Jeff Burt

Supercomputer makers Cray and SGI together are getting more than $50 million in federal contracts as part of the Department of Defense’s larger program to upgrade its high-performance computing capabilities. Cray officials announced this week that the DOD had awarded the company $26 million for an XC40 supercomputer and three of the vendor’s Sonexion storage […]

NXP Semiconductors is expanding its capabilities in the fast-growing autonomous vehicle space, giving Qualcomm executives a look at what the chip maker will get when it acquires NXP next year. At the Electronica show in Germany this week, NXP official unveiled a new automotive radar microcontroller (MCU) that they said is four times faster than […]

Telecommunications company BT and software vendor CA Technologies are expanding the software-defined WAN capabilities within their portfolios. BT officials announced Nov. 7 that the service provider is partnering with Nuage Networks to grow the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) services it can offer customers. The SD-WAN service is part of a larger effort within the company to […]

Oracle is finally getting its hands on NetSuite, a move designed to bolster the enterprise software giant’s high-profile cloud ambitions and give it greater access to the important midmarket space. Oracle officials said in a statement early Nov. 5 that enough shares of NetSuite had been tendered to enable Oracle to move forward with the […]

Drones are an important part of Intel’s growth plans, and the chip maker continues to expand its presence in the nascent space. Drones have become a consistent presence in keynote addresses and showroom floors during such events as the Intel Developer Forum, the company has bought and invested in a number of drone technology vendors, […]

NetApp is undergoing another round of job cuts as the data storage giant continues to remake its product portfolio and restructure its business to address the challenges of a cloud-centric business world. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Nov. 3, NetApp officials said they are reducing the company’s workforce by 6 […]

Cisco Systems wants to make it easier for tech partners to integrate their products with the networking vendor’s Spark collaboration platform and for customers to buy the technology for use in the cloud, on premises or in a mixture of both. At the company’s Partner Summit this week, Cisco officials unveiled new capabilities for Spark, […]

Intel is taking another step into the worlds of virtual reality and sports technology with plans to buy a small company called Voke that sells immersive sports video equipment. The move comes months after Intel bought Replay Technologies to expand its presence in such areas as 3D video, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), […]

Dell EMC and startup SnapRoute are taking a larger role in the OpenSwitch project to develop a complete open-source network operating system. Officials with the project, which is running under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, announced this week that Dell EMC is contributing its OS10 Open Edition, a version of the network operating system […]

Clouds, Networks Are Keys to IT’s Future, Pluribus Survey Finds A Pluribus survey on emerging technologies found that the cloud will have the most impact on IT pros and their companies in the future. eWEEK takes a look at some of the highlights from Pluribus’ survey. It’s the Cloud, Stupid When asked about the technologies […]