Jeff Burt

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 […]

Samsung over the past couple of years has pursued its ambitions around the Internet of things aggressively, from buying companies and building out its developer program to rolling out its Artik platform, helping launch standards groups and ensuring all its products will be IoT-enabled within five years. Now the company wants to grow its presence […]

Dell is rolling out new systems and demonstrating hybrid cloud capabilities in its continuing effort to bring high-performance computing capabilities to mainstream enterprises. Dell for several years has been promoting the idea of making high-performance computing (HPC) accessible to enterprise and midmarket customers to give them an edge over competitors as business environments rapidly evolve. […]