Jeff Burt

Oracle Communications is updating its operation support system suite to help service providers more easily design services that span both physical and virtual networks. Communications service providers (CSPs) continue to aggressively move to more virtualized environments, but they also still have a foot in the legacy physical world, which makes the issue of service delivery […]

Advanced Micro Devices reportedly is developing a high-end chip aimed at supercomputers that will include as many as 32 “Zen” processing cores and an unknown number of its upcoming “Greenland” GPUs. Some of the details of AMD’s “Exascale Heterogeneous Processor” (EHP) were outlined in a paper submitted to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) […]

Fujitsu will start offering Midokura’s network virtualization overlay technology in its OpenStack-based public and private cloud architecture, replacing the OpenStack Neutron plug-in component. The companies this week announced an expanded OEM partnership in which Fujitsu will integrate the Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) overlay technology as part of the effort to grow the reach of its […]

Michel Combes, who as the new CEO of Alcatel-Lucent in 2013 implemented the latest restructuring of Alcatel-Lucent and then oversaw its proposed sale to rival Nokia Networks, will step down from the CEO post Sept. 1 as the merger comes closer to completion. Combes and Alcatel-Lucent’s board of directors announced several executive changes July 30, […]

Nvidia is recalling about 88,000 of its Shield gaming tablets after complaints about the device’s battery overheating. Nvidia officials said in a notice July 31 that the company will replace the recalled devices, which are 8-inch Shield tablets that were sold between July 2014 and July 2015. According to a statement from company officials, there […]

The Obama Administration wants to use the resources of the federal government to accelerate innovation in the country’s high-performance computing market and to drive the development of exascale compute systems in the United States. President Obama this week signed an executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to coordinate federal government efforts with […]

Fujitsu Laboratories wants to make servers more efficient and reduce power consumption in data centers by enabling organizations to more precisely measure the energy required to run various workloads. The company has developed a technology that builds upon a power-management feature already in Intel x86 Xeon processors that measures energy consumption at the CPU level. […]

Dell, which became a private company almost two years ago, may be eyeing a return to the public stage, at least for parts of the company. Reports continue to circulate that Dell officials are interested in spinning out at least part of its SecureWorks security business—as well as other units—with an eye toward creating a […]

Qualcomm has developed a technology that will enable devices made with metal to charge wirelessly, an important step for an industry that is seeing more smartphones and tablets made with metal alloys. The company has taken its WiPower magnetic resonance technology and created a solution that device makers can use when they build their mobile […]

AT&T, which is in the early stages of a six-year plan to virtualize three-quarters of its massive network by 2020, is one of three new members of the vendor-led OpenDaylight Project. The other two companies signing on with the effort were Nokia Networks and ClearPath Networks. The announcement came on the first day of the […]

Talari Networks is making it easier for businesses to connect to the Amazon Web Services Cloud by offering its software-defined WAN technology on the AWS Marketplace. By using the Amazon Machine Image for Talari’s Virtual Appliance CT800 that is hosted on the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), organizations can more easily build an on-demand pathway […]

Hewlett-Packard is growing its hybrid cloud portfolio through the acquisition of ActiveState Software’s Stackato developer platform. The two companies have partnered on cloud technologies since 2012, and HP officials have used the Stackato platform-as-a-service (PaaS) as part of HP’s larger Helion cloud initiative, which they kicked off more than a year ago. In October 2014, […]