Jeff Burt

BOSTON—IBM for the past couple of years has been aggressively building out its cloud data capabilities, spending billions to bring in companies like Cloudant, SoftLayer and—last month—Compose to bring it up to par with other top-tier cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services. IBM has for a while had the tools to help organizations build […]

Intel is taking its latest step in the big data space through a partnership with BlueData, whose software is designed to enable organizations to run Hadoop and Spark in virtualized environments on-premises. Intel officials also said the company is investing in BlueData for a third time as part of a $20 million funding round led […]

Talari Networks officials are looking to expand the company’s reach in a growing and increasingly competitive SD-WAN market that includes major players like Cisco Systems and a host of smaller players. The company is rolling out both physical and virtual appliances in a move that grows its portfolio and gives customers more options when bringing […]

Hewlett-Packard earlier this year introduced a new line of open networking switches that enable customers to buy the HP hardware and run third-party operating systems. Now, the company is growing the number of switches in its Altoline switch family and expanding the OSes that can run on them. HP officials on Aug. 24 announced that […]

Intel officials are pushing forward with the company’s ambitious cloud efforts by collaborating with OpenStack distributor Mirantis to enhance the enterprise capabilities of the open-source cloud stack. The giant chip maker, which last month unveiled its “Cloud for All” initiative, also is leading a $100 million fundraising round for Mirantis and its 4-year-old subscription-based version […]

Dell eight years ago launched its Data Center Solutions business, a unit aimed at delivering customized and optimized solutions to the handful of organizations that make up the hyperscale computing market, including Google, Facebook, and a few Chinese companies such as Baidu and Alibaba. The driving idea behind Data Center Solutions (DCS) was that these […]

Big Switch Networks officials are aiming to use the company’s Big Cloud Fabric to unify both physical and virtual networks within cloud environments based on OpenStack. The company this month announced the enhanced capabilities in Big Cloud Fabric 3.0 as part of a larger push to expand its goal to bring hyperscale networking to enterprises […]

Google over the past 10 years has been building out its own homegrown networking infrastructure that it needed to move the massive numbers of workloads between the hundreds of thousands of servers running in its data centers. The tech industry knew that Google was developing its own networking technology, and that work helped fuel the […]

Hewlett-Packard entered its final financial quarter as a single company battling many of the issues that prompted the decision a year ago to break in half, from the continuing slowdown in the global PC market to slowing demand for corporate IT technology as businesses shift more of their workloads to the cloud. The tech giant […]

Vonage officials are looking to boost its enterprise cloud communications capabilities by acquiring iCore Networks, which offers a range of collaboration and cloud services. Vonage announced Aug. 20 that it will spend $92 million to buy the privately held iCore and expects the deal will close later this quarter. The acquisition will add to Vonage’s […]

Taking in the Experience at the Intel Developer Forum IDF focused on the end user experience—from immersive gaming to devices to robots—and the tools developers can use to provide and enhance those experiences. A CEO on the Move Throughout the event, Krzanich could be seen walking around the Moscone Center, talking with attendees, checking out […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel last year introduced its Internet of things (IoT) Platform, a reference architecture that uses technologies from the chip maker to create an open environment that developers can leverage to build new products and solutions to address challenges presented by the proliferation of connected devices and data. At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2015 […]