Jeff Burt

Nvidia has rolled out its latest graphics card that is designed to bring similar speed and performance capabilities as the company’s GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 GPUs launched in May but with a more competitive price. The GPU maker on June 7 introduced the GTX 1060, which officials said is designed for speed and—with a […]

The global IT industry will feel the repercussions of England’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union, according to Gartner analysts. The market research firm on July 7 predicted that global IT spending this year will hit about $3.41 trillion, which is flat when compared with spending last year. It’s also an improvement from the […]

Dell’s high-profile acquisition of data storage vendor EMC makes sense for both EMC and its shareholders, according to an independent proxy advisory firm. Officials with Glass Lewis said in a statement released by EMC that the deal—which is valued at more than $60 billion and includes not only EMC but its federated businesses, such as […]

Lenovo, the world’s top PC maker, is moving to expand its influence in the market by buying the bulk of NEC’s stake in a joint venture in Japan. Lenovo will spend $195 million to buy 44 percent of NEC’s share of Lenovo NEC Holdings, a joint venture launched five years ago to give the two […]

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 […]