Jeff Burt

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 […]

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 […]