Jeff Burt

Hewlett-Packard earlier this month unveiled a hyperconverged infrastructure appliance for its software-defined storage portfolio that offers enhanced integration with virtualization technology from VMware. Weeks later, HP is introducing another converged solution that includes a range of the company’s technologies as well as integration with VMware’s vSphere and vRealize Operations products. HP officials announced the new […]

VMware is adding almost two-dozen new features to its NSX network virtualization platform that touch on everything from greater control of data and improved integration with physical infrastructure to better troubleshooting tools. Company officials announced the advancements Aug. 31 during the opening day of the VMworld 2015 show in San Francisco. They also are using […]

Intel in 2012 had many in the industry wondering what the company was doing when, within a span of three months, it spent about $265 million to buy QLogic’s InfiniBand technology and supercomputer maker Cray’s high-speed interconnect assets. The chip maker already sold InfiniBand products under the umbrella of its True Scale business, and it […]

Amazon’s unsuccessful venture into the highly competitive smartphone space last year with the ill-fated Fire phone reportedly is leading the massive online retailer to scale back or stop development of other hardware efforts and to cut jobs in its secretive development center. According to a report this week in The Wall Street Journal, Amazon officials […]

Lenovo, which has seen its share of the mobile phone market slide in recent quarters, is reorganizing its mobile operations and shifting responsibility for its smartphone business to the Motorola Mobility division. The streamlining move comes less than a year after the Chinese system maker bought Motorola from Google for $2.91 billion in an effort […]

Apple officials are confirming the rumors that they’re ready to conduct a major media event next month in San Francisco, and the expectation is that new iPhones are on the way. The giant device maker on Aug. 27 sent around media invitations to the event, which is scheduled for Sept. 9 at the Bill Graham […]

Fujitsu is recalling as many as 70,000 battery packs for some of its Lifebook notebook PCs that were sold worldwide between 2011 and 2012. According to the notice posted on the company’s Website, the recall comes among concerns that some of the battery packs, which were manufactured by Panasonic, could ignite and cause a fire, […]

Intel is investing more than $60 million into a Chinese-based drone manufacturer, the latest move by company executives to push the chip maker’s technology into emerging technologies and to reduce its reliance on the shrinking global PC market. The vendor is investing the money in Yuneec, one of a growing number of drone makers that […]

Hewlett-Packard and Dell in the second quarter continued to lead a worldwide server market that is still growing despite challenges in the global economy and a slowdown in the midrange system market, according to analysts with IDC and Gartner. IDC on Aug. 25 said that server revenues during the second three months of the year […]

Oracle reportedly is readying a low-cost SPARC processor aimed at scale-out computing environments like those run by cloud service providers and dominated by systems powered by Intel’s x86 processors. At the Hot Chips 2015 show this week in Cupertino, Calif., Basant Vinaik, senior principal engineer of CPU and I/O verification for Oracle, laid out the […]

Those expecting an upturn in the PC market to happen next year as inventory levels decline, Windows 10 becomes more pervasive and new processors hit the market may have to wait until 2017, according to analysts with IDC. In a report Aug. 26, the market research firm downgraded its industry forecast, saying PC shipments worldwide […]

Brocade officials want to make it easier for organizations to monitor not only network-connected devices in their data centers but also the traffic that runs between the systems. The company is rolling out the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform, a storage network appliance that is designed to sniff out problems within the network that can cause […]