Jeff Burt

Fujitsu is expanding the reach of its PrimeFlex vShape reference architecture, adding new virtualization and backup capabilities and offering a version that is aimed at larger enterprises. PrimeFlex vShape targets organizations that want to increase the virtualization in their data centers or embrace a private cloud environment. Based on the company’s Primergy servers, the reference […]

Chip foundry Globalfoundries has successfully fabbed the first sample 14-nanometer chips for Advanced Micro Devices, an announcement that is good news for both the manufacturer and the chip vendor. Officials with Globalfoundries said Nov. 5 that the company had “demonstrated silicon success” on the first AMD products using the 14nm FinFET process technology, and that […]

Intel’s New Platform Is the Chip Maker’s Latest Push Into the IoT Determined to be a leader in the Internet of things, Intel unveils a new platform reference architecture, a new Quark chip, and support software and services. Intel’s IoT Platform The chip maker’s IoT Platform includes a reference architecture and portfolio of its products […]

Huawei Technologies has steadily grown into a significant player in the worldwide smartphone market, becoming the third-largest vendor in the world behind Samsung and Apple. Now the giant Chinese tech vendor is unveiling its latest smartphone chip that will compete with the newest products from the likes of Qualcomm and Samsung. At an event in […]

Intel is investing another $22 million in 10 startups focused on communications, networking, IoT and other new industry segments for the chipmaker. The most recent investment by Intel Capital, the vendor’s investment arm, brings the company’s total investment in start-ups this year to more than $500 million, according to Wendell Brooks, corporate vice president of […]

Avago Technologies’ $37 billion acquisition of chip maker Broadcom reportedly is about to clear a significant regulatory hurdle. Antitrust regulators with the European Union are getting ready to give the massive deal unconditional approval, unnamed sources told Reuters. Avago officials had offered concessions to the European Commission Oct. 30, but according to the sources, the […]

Ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina isn’t going to find much support for her presidential campaign from the person who now occupies that seat. Fiorina throughout the campaign has been hyping her business experience—particularly her six-plus years steering HP—as her primary asset in her run for president. However, in an interview with CNN, Meg Whitman, who took […]

Lenovo and startup Nutanix will develop and sell a new line of hyperconverged appliances that will be aimed at organizations looking to bring the agility and scalability of public clouds into their own environments. Officials with the two companies announced the partnership Nov. 4, saying they will not only build the Lenovo-branded appliances, but also […]

Rich Napolitano was fewer than two years past his nine years with storage giant EMC, and was looking for a new startup to help lead. Napolitano had plenty of experience with major tech vendors, including EMC, Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corp., but also had time with startups, such as Pirus Networks (which was bought […]

Juniper Networks wants to enable service providers to more easily bring network functions virtualization capabilities to their infrastructures. At the company’s inaugural NXTWORK 2015 customer show Nov. 3 in Santa Clara, Calif., Juniper officials unveiled Cloud CPE, a complete network functions virtualization (NFV) solution that leverages the company’s Contrail Networking technology to give communications service […]

Dell reportedly will sell off about $10 billion in assets—including possibly some of the software businesses it has acquired over the past several years—as it prepares to bring EMC into the fold. Unnamed sources told Reuters that Dell will take on about $49.5 billion after it completes the $67 billion acquisition of EMC and its […]

Juniper Networks is expanding its open networking efforts with a disaggregated version of its Junos networking software and new access switches that can run not only the disaggregated Junos but also supports the 25 Gigabit Ethernet and 50 GbE standards. The vendor announced the new offerings Nov. 3 on the first day of its inaugural […]