Jeff Burt

WiFi connectivity is about to get faster. The Wi-Fi Alliance has officially unveiled its certification for 802.11ac Wave 2, which officials said will deliver greater speeds, more capacity and greater efficiency to WiFi networks. That will become increasingly important as the Internet of things (IoT)—with its growing numbers of connected home appliances, mobile devices, TVs […]

Oracle officials want to bring the vendor’s SPARC chip architectures downstream and into workloads that currently are run on systems powered by Intel’s x86 processors. At the Oracle OpenWorld 2016 show in Brazil June 29, company executives introduced the new SPARC S7, a less-powerful and lower-cost version of Oracle’s SPARC M7 chip that is designed […]

Qualcomm is supporting Google’s Project Tango augmented reality initiative with two of its key Snapdragon chips and will increase support in future generations, which company officials said will expand access to the technology to greater numbers of smartphone users. The officials noted that Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro device, which is the first on the market […]

New vendors continue to unveil products aimed at making networks better fit into an increasingly digital world that is more mobile and more cloud-centric. Earlier this month, 128 Technology came out of stealth mode with its Secure Vector Routing technology, a session-based networking solution that company officials said is a fundamentally new approach to routing […]

Intel reportedly is considering selling its security business, the latest move by the chip maker as it continues to restructure to focus more on developing processors for the cloud and the Internet of things. According to a report in the Financial Times, officials with Intel have been meeting with bankers to discuss the future of […]

Hitachi Data Systems is building out is lineup of converged infrastructure systems and introducing the first in a new portfolio of hyperconverged appliances. The company this week unveiled an enhanced Unified Computer Platform (UCP) 2000 that expands the virtualization and storage options for the converged system that was first introduced last year. At the same […]

Service provider CenturyLink is unveiling a fully managed software-defined WAN service designed to help customers make their networking environments more agile and scalable, easier to manage and more affordable. The company is adding the SD-WAN service to its portfolio of managed networking offerings, with officials saying the managed service will enable organizations to unify their […]

Qualcomm officials early last year finalized a deal with Chinese regulators that included paying a $975 million fine while also laying out the details of licensing fees that the chip maker could charge smartphone makers in the country. Now Qualcomm officials are putting that agreement to the test by filing a complaint with a Chinese […]

Cisco Systems won the latest round in its ongoing legal dispute with rival Arista Networks when U.S. trade regulators ruled that Arista infringed on three Cisco patents by using certain features in its Ethernet switches and recommended a limited import ban on Arista products that include those features. The International Trade Commission (ITC) on June […]

China’s Massive Sunway TaihuLight Dominates List of Supercomputers China toppled the United States from its position atop the global supercomputing world. Here’s a look at the top 10 fastest systems. The Beast That Is Sunway TaihuLight The newest system in the top spot delivers 93 petaflops/second (quadrillions of calculations per second) of performance and is […]

Users of Citrix Systems’ GoToMyPC remote desktop access service were forced to change their passwords following what company officials called a “very sophisticated password attack” in which hackers tried to use usernames and passwords leaked from other Websites to access GoToMyPC accounts. Citrix security officials responded by forcing all users of the service to reset […]

Big Switch Networks is adding support for such uses cases as security monitoring, network-functions virtualization and IP storage to its Big Monitoring Fabric and Big Cloud Fabric offerings in an effort to expand the reach of its network virtualization technology. The updates, which include deeper integration with VMware’s virtualization technologies, support for Red Hat’s latest […]