Jeff Burt

Lenovo officials are continuing to partner with other tech vendors and software makers as they expand the company’s data center infrastructure portfolio. The company on June 6 unveiled new server, storage, networking and hyperconverged infrastructure offerings that expand on executives’ strategy to make the Chinese tech vendor a larger player in the $87 billion data […]

Intel is launching the latest version of its high-end Xeon E7 server processors with its eye firmly on the growing data analytics needs in the enterprise. Officials with the chip maker on June 6 unveiled the Xeon E7-8800/4800 v4 product families that are built on the company’s “Broadwell-EX” core architecture and offer significant gains in […]

As Michael Dell and other executives of his namesake company continue to push their $67 billion bid to buy data storage giant EMC, they earlier this month had their attention brought back to the contentious 2013 buyout by the CEO that took Dell private. A judge in Delaware’s special corporate court ruled that the $25 […]

Qualcomm is expanding its presence in the increasingly competitive market for chips aimed at the wearable device space, adding a new processor to its portfolio and highlighting the growing number of products being powered by its technologies. At the recent Computex 2016 show in Taipei, Taiwan, Qualcomm officials introduced the Snapdragon Wear 1100 system on […]

Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010 opened a lot of doors for the enterprise applications vendor, giving it a data center hardware business and the popular Java programming language. In recent weeks, the deal has led Oracle into the courtroom. Soon after buying Sun in 2010, Oracle sued Google, claiming the search […]

Advanced Micro Devices and Intel both came to the Computex 2016 show this week in Taipei, Taiwan, with the PC in mind despite efforts to grow their respective businesses in emerging areas in hopes of reducing their dependence on the contracting market. Officials with both chip makers said that despite several years of declines in […]

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich this week found himself in the middle of the highly volatile presidential campaign when he scheduled—and then abruptly canceled—a fundraising event for Donald Trump, the controversial presumptive nominee for the Republican Party. Krzanich had planned to host the event at his home, but spiked it soon after the New York Times […]

The global server market continues to see its fortunes tied in large part to the increasingly important hyperscale infrastructure space for cloud computing environments, according to analysts from IDC and Gartner. The market research firms released their respective first-quarter numbers for the worldwide server market, and while there were variations in the figures from the […]

Intel at Computex Swings From PCs to IoT, 5G and Robotics Intel officials discussed the PC’s changing role as one of the growing numbers of devices and systems that are connecting to the Internet, cloud and each other. A Crowd Comes to Taiwan It was a large audience that gathered for Intel’s keynote at the […]

AUSTIN, Texas—The Dell-based Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center here, which currently is the 10th-fastest system in the world, is about to get a significant upgrade. Officials with the center, which is part of the University of Texas at Austin, announced June 2 that the facility will use a $30 million award from […]