Jeff Burt

Dell is growing its hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio with new offerings that highlight not only what the company can do now but how its capabilities will be expanded when it buys storage giant EMC later this year. Company officials on April 5 announced new appliances in its XC Series that are powered by the latest Xeon […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nvidia is adding another technology to its virtual reality portfolio as its engineers continue to address challenges in a technology that has become popular with consumers but holds even greater promise in the professional and enterprise worlds. On the first day of the company’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) here April 5, Nvidia executives […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nvidia executives five years ago decided to put a lot of the GPU maker’s resources into developing technologies for the artificial intelligence market. There were developments in the space—including the development of new algorithms that made it possible to use deep learning techniques to drive innovation around artificial intelligence (AI)—though there were no […]

The dominoes from Intel’s decision to hand control of the company’s client computing, Internet of things and software businesses to a former Qualcomm executive are beginning to fall. Two longtime Intel veterans—Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group, which includes PCs, and Doug Davis, senior vice president and general […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Virtual reality technology promises to be a central topic during Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference here this week, with Nvidia officials ahead of the event unveiling the first mobile graphics chip for the company’s VR Ready program. The program is designed to give system OEMs, developers, businesses and software vendors the tools they need […]

Intel Looks to Products, Partnerships to Build Clouds At its Cloud Day event, Intel unveiled new products, collaborations and programs all aimed at making it easier for businesses to run workloads in the cloud. It’s a World of Clouds Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, said a recent […]

Acer is rolling out an all-in-one Chrome OS system dedicated to video conferencing, the latest addition to Google’s larger Chrome for Work initiative designed to push the operating system into the enterprise space. The system is a touchscreen Chromebase with a 24-inch display that includes the necessary hardware, software and services in a single device, […]

Mitel officials in February launched an initiative to help drive innovation around 5G connectivity. The communications technology company this week took another step in that direction, partnering with DragonWave to develop solutions around the wireless technology. As part of the partnership, Mitel will bring its software and mobile networking skills, while DragonWare—which makes carrier-grade point-to-point […]

Drone startup Airware spent much of the past five years developing an operating system that other companies could use in their own machines. Now Airware will begin selling complete drone solutions. The company will now work with preferred drone manufacturing partners to sell devices armed with its Aerial Information Platform software and with create a […]

Top-tier server makers Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell and Lenovo are refreshing and adding new servers to their portfolios that are powered by Intel’s newest Xeon E5 processor family. Intel officials unveiled the Xeon E5-2660 v4 “Broadwell” chips March 31, promising as much as 44 percent better performance over the “Haswell” predecessor, improved server utilization, virtualization […]

Intel officials a year ago kicked off what they called the Intel Cloud for All strategy, an effort designed to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing by businesses that includes not only the chip maker’s silicon products for cloud environments, but also helping to create the ecosystem around cloud infrastructures and open standards. At the […]

Dell is no stranger to delivering virtual reality technology, according to Rahul Tikoo, executive director and general manager of the company’s Precision workstation business. Through its Alienware business, Dell has brought virtual reality (VR) experiences to gamers, while on the corporate side, the company has offered immersive computing through such setups as 3D immersive caves […]