Jeff Burt

Dell has become the latest PC vendor to shed its Android tablet business, with officials saying the tech vendor will instead focus on its portfolio of two-in-one systems. Rival HP Inc. late last year announced it was exiting the low-end consumer tablet market—many of them Android devices—choosing instead to put its money and time into […]

Red Hat hosted its annual conference last week in San Francisco, bringing together many of the leaders in the broad open-source community to mix with the thousands of developers and users of open technology. Among the Gold Sponsors of the three-day show was IBM, with signs located throughout the event and executives walking the hallways. […]

Network connectivity and security continue to be challenges in branch offices, and Juniper Network officials are looking to the cloud to help solve them. The company has unveiled its Cloud-Enabled Branch initiative that brings together an array of capabilities—from software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and routing to security features like next-generation firewall functionality—into what officials call a […]

Advanced Micro Devices engineers are addressing reports from several test sites that its new Radeon RX 480 graphics card, officially launched last week, is drawing more power than advertised. In tests run by such sites as Tom’s Hardware, TecLab and PC Perspective, it was found that the new GPU, which was rated as a 150-watt […]

Avaya more than a year ago significantly expanded its efforts in the network virtualization space, introducing a network architecture that spans from the data center to the network edge and designed to make it easier to connect devices and people to the network. The software-defined networking (SDN) Fx architecture works with Avaya’s Fabric Connect technology […]

Intel is partnering with BMW and Mobileye in an effort not only to bring a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles from the automaker to market by 2021, but also to develop industry standards and a common platform that can be used by other companies in the automotive industry. The announcement July 1 from BMW’s headquarters […]

The latest major changes at Hewlett Packard Enterprise this week put a spotlight back onto The Machine, a bold move to reimagine data center architecture. In a post on the company blog, HPE CEO Meg Whitman announced some executive changes that involved in large part who will oversee the development of The Machine, an ambitious […]

Advanced Micro Devices continues to push the capabilities of its graphics cards for gaming and virtual reality engines, announcing the launch of its latest high-end GPU based on the new Polaris architecture and the acquisition of a startup developing technologies for PC gaming that takes advantage of GPUs. The company on June 29 released its […]

Arista Networks President and CEO Jayshree Ullal this week looked to allay any concerns among customers related to the recent ruling by U.S. trade regulators that the networking vendor had infringed on patents of rival Cisco Systems. In a letter to customers June 27, Ullal wrote that she and other Arista executives disagreed with the […]

Qualcomm is ramping up the pressure in its patent infringement dispute with Meizu Technology by filing more than a dozen more complaints against the Chinese smartphone maker. Company officials on June 30 announced that it filed the new complaints with the country’s Intellectual Property Courts in Beijing and Shanghai, claiming Meizu is continuing to use […]

Intel reportedly is joining with automaker BMW and vehicle sensor vendor Mobileye in an alliance to develop self-driving car technology. The three companies will conduct a Webcast news conference July 1. While no details about the subject of the event were released, all three companies have ambitions for the autonomous car space. A partnership would […]

When Derek DePasture joined BluePearl Veterinary Partners as a senior network engineer in October 2014, the company had about 27 locations and 1,300 employees around the country. Within 12 months, those numbers had grown to 56 locations and almost 3,500 employees. The fast-growing chain of emergency and specialty veterinary hospitals had a hub-and-spoke model for […]