Jeff Burt

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 […]

A set of security vulnerabilities in Qualcomm chipsets has put 900 million Android smartphones and tablets at risk of being taken over by hackers, according to researchers at security technology vendor Check Point Software Technologies. At the DefCon 24 show in Las Vegas on Aug. 7 and in a post on the company blog, Adam […]

Qualcomm continues to sign Chinese smartphone makers to licensing deals that allow the companies to use the chip maker’s 3G and 4G technologies in their products. Most recently, Qualcomm entered into a licensing agreement with Vivo Communication Technology, the third largest smartphone maker in a lucrative Chinese market. Through the deal, Vivo will pay royalties […]

Google and Facebook are fierce rivals with a common challenge: how to fit as much processing power into their data centers as possible to meet the always-growing demand for more capacity while keeping down the power and operational costs that come with adding servers. To address the issue, the two hyperscale players have looked beyond […]

Avaya executives in May said the business communications and networking vendor was evaluating its options for the future as it deals with a debt burden hovering around $6 billion. Now the company reportedly is considering selling its contact center business for as much as $4 billion. Citing unnamed sources, Reuters reported that officials with Genesys […]

Huawei is unveiling an interconnected group of laboratories that are designed to help network operators more quickly and easily embrace and deploy cloud computing solutions in their environments. The Chinese tech giant, whose reach extends from the data center through the network and out to the edge—it’s the world’s third-largest smartphone maker behind Apple and […]

Mitel’s failed bid to buy video conferencing vendor Polycom isn’t slowing down the company’s ambitions to use acquisitions to help it grow its place in the highly competitive business communications marketplace. In a conference call to review the company’s latest financial quarter, Mitel CEO Rich McBee said that the Polycom situation helped the company hone […]