Jeff Burt

Juniper Networks officials say revenue for the first quarter will come in lower than expected due to weak demand from enterprise customers and poor timing of deployments by some top-tier telecommunications companies in the United States and Europe. The company on April 11 reported that revenue for the first three months of the year will […]

Spending on IT infrastructure for public and private cloud environments will grow steadily over the next several years as revenue for traditional data center infrastructures erodes, according to analysts with IDC. This year alone, total spending on systems—servers, storage appliances and Ethernet switches—for cloud infrastructures will jump 18.9 percent over 2015, hitting $38.2 billion. In […]

Nvidia officials spent much of last week’s developer conference talking about the promising future of self-driving cars and showing off the technology the GPU vendor is developing to accelerate innovation in the space. At the company’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, Calif., CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and other executives unveiled such new offerings as […]

Rob High believes that for too long, the relationship between humans and computers has been too uneven, with users constantly having to make adjustments to accommodate to the systems. People have had to adapt to the computer’s interface, to figure out what keys to hit to get the result they’re looking for and to manipulate […]

Qualcomm engineers have received more leeway to test drone technology on the company’s campus in San Diego, Calif., after getting the OK from federal regulators to operate the unnamed vehicles there. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a certificate of authorization (COA) to Qualcomm enabling the company to fly drones at 200 feet or lower […]

Nokia has begun slashing jobs in the wake of its $16.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent as the company looks to save as much as $1.03 billion by the end of 2018. Nokia officials this week said that as part of its plans to absorb the networking company into the fold and to focus more attention […]

BYOD Brings Greater Productivity—as Well as Security Issues While employees are helping to drive the adoption of BYOD, companies have different policies about who participates, the platforms available and more. It’s All About the Employees According to the survey, it is employee-related concerns driving the adoption of BYOD. Improved employee mobility came in first at […]

Nvidia Shows Off Its AI, Deep Learning, VR Capabilities at GTC Highlights from Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference range from technology aimed at making VR more real to products for accelerating innovation in deep learning. Taking in Some Rays and Some Technology Attendees take a break outside the San Jose Convention Center, and next to one […]

Fujitsu is the latest server maker to refresh its systems with Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors. Company officials this week announced that Fujitsu was upgrading its entire lineup of dual-socket Primergy systems with the new chips, which were announced March 31. The servers include everything from tower and rack systems to blades, nodes for […]

Intel officials are predicting that by 2020, 30 percent of the devices and systems making up the Internet of things will need what is called functional safety capabilities. Just like many cars today need Advanced Driver Assistance Systems—or ADAS—to perform such tasks as assisted parking and automatic braking, automated, connected systems in buildings, factories and […]

Dell, which already is selling its services business for $3 billion and still has its Quest and SonicWall units up for sale, reportedly is now looking to put EMC’s content management division up for bid as part of its effort to reduce the amount of debt it will take on when it closes its $67 […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—IBM officials in December 2013 open-sourced its Power chip architecture and, along with several other tech vendors, launched the OpenPower Foundation, hoping to expand the reach of the processors and carve into Intel’s dominance in the data center. Just more than two years later, OpenPower officials at the group’s second annual convention here […]