Jeff Burt

Dell officials want to enable the “citizen data scientist.” Dell is rolling out version 13.1 of the company’s Statistica data analytics platform, which will offer a range of new capabilities in such areas as expanded in-database analytics, improved fraud detection through network analytics and enabling analytics at the network edge on devices and systems, which […]

Dell and EMC continue to put in place the executive lineup that will lead Dell once it completes its $67 billion acquisition of the data storage vendor later this year. Most recently, Dell officials wrote in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that Howard Elias, a 13-year EMC veteran and one of […]

In February, Japanese system makers Toshiba, Fujitsu and Vaio reportedly were a month away from announcing a joint venture that would combine their respective PC units into a single business that they hoped would be able to better compete with Lenovo, HP Inc., Dell and other top OEMs. In March, reports surfaced that the deal […]

Intel has begun shipping a development module that features the company’s latest Xeon E5 server processors and programmable chips that will help customers drive performance while holding down power consumption. The multichip platform is pairing the 14-nanometer Xeon E5-2600 v4 “Broadwell” processors—launched late in March—with the Arria10 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) from Altera. Diane Bryant, […]

Cisco Systems in February scored a win in its legal dispute with networking rival Arista Networks when a single administrative judge with the International Trade Commission ruled that Arista had violated three of Cisco’s patents. Now the full federal regulatory agency will review the judge’s ruling, a decision hailed by officials with Cisco and Arista […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is rolling out a converged hybrid compute platform designed for smaller businesses that want an on-premises system that also can deliver the benefits of the cloud. The vendor’s ProLiant Easy Connect Managed Hybrid data center solution, announced April 13, is the first in a new family of systems called Easy Connect that […]

Stealth.com is rolling out its latest small PC, the fanless LPC-175F that is designed for industrial and commercial uses such as embedded controls, digital signs, thin clients and interactive kiosks. The company makes a broad range of rugged PCs, servers and peripherals, including displays and keyboards that are designed to withstand extremes in temperature and […]

Broadcom officials are introducing a new dual-channel WiFi access platform that is designed to give mobile devices the fastest connectivity speeds possible. The company’s 5G-HD wireless access point (AC) platform, which uses Broadcom’s new BCM49408 quad-core chip, essentially gives devices that are 5GHz 802.11ac-capable a clear fast lane in which to operate that is not […]

IBM, Google, Mellanox, Others Unveil OpenPower Wares at Summit This year’s OpenPower Summit saw a tripling of the number of OpenPower products on display over last year’s event. Here is a look at some of those systems. Ready for OpenPower At its OpenPower Summit, the OpenPower Foundation introduced the OpenPower Ready logo that members can […]

Dell is spinning out its SecureWorks cyber-security business in the first IPO of the year. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) April 11, SecureWorks officials said they expect to raise $134.3 million to $154.9 million, with the per-share price ranging between $15.50 and $17.50. The company could be valued at as […]

Industry analysts have been warning for months that the global PC market would continue to see shipment declines in the first half of 2016, and that trend played out in the first quarter. Analysts with IDC and Gartner said that in the first three months of the year, the shipments of PCs declined sharply worldwide, […]

Huawei Technologies executives are outlining a cloud computing strategy aimed at accelerating the transformation of network operators into more complete cloud services providers. At the company’s Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2016 April 11 in Shenzhen, China, rotating CEO Eric Xu unveiled the giant tech vendor’s “All Cloud” initiative in which Huawei will cloud-enable all of […]