Jeff Burt

AT&T is partnering with VeloCloud to bring software-defined WAN capabilities to its growing software-centric networking efforts. AT&T is the latest carrier to partner with a networking vendor to offer SD-WAN services on their networks, enabling organizations to more quickly and efficiently route traffic across their wide-area networks by giving multiple transport options and automatically choosing […]

Intel over the past few weeks has continued to press forward with its efforts in the growing wearable device market, taking advantage of high-profile fashion shows in New York and Paris to show off its capabilities and putting its financial backing behind a startup in the industry. Intel officials view the wearable space—indeed, the internet […]

Intel has begun sampling its Stratix 10 programmable chips, which the company expects to use as accelerators in data center environments running compute- and data-intensive applications. In a blog post Oct. 4, Dan McNamara, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group, wrote that company engineers were able to combine the chip […]

AT&T is continuing to expand the range of its software-defined network initiative by adding more capabilities to its virtualized services offerings. Officials with the top-tier carrier said users of AT&T’s FlexWare equipment—formerly known as Network Functions on Demand—can now run multiple virtual network functions (VNFs) on a single FlexWare device and then deploy those functions […]

It’s out there on the horizon, tantalizingly close but hard to see, and eagerly awaited by an increasingly connected world. It’s called 5G, essentially the next generation of wireless connectivity after 4G LTE, and it holds the promise of more speed and capacity and lower latency to unlock the potential of everything from gaming, streaming […]

A startup server vendor is looking to make a push into the competitive hyperconverged infrastructure space with offerings that are powered by ARM-based chips and come with a new way of deploying and managing virtual machines. Officials with UK-based Kaleao on Oct. 3 introduced KMAX, an architecture that, like other hyperconverged offerings, tightly integrates compute, […]

PC market leaders Lenovo and HP will be among the first OEMs to roll out desktop systems armed with Advanced Micro Devices’ latest processors. Officials with the chip maker announced Oct. 3 at the Canalys Channels Forum in Barcelona, Spain, that the two PC vendors will offer the 7th Generation AMD Pro accelerated processing units […]

Advanced Micro Devices this week kept up the aggressive buildout of its graphics technologies with the release of two new GPUs for the embedded and internet of things market that are built on the chip maker’s Polaris architecture. Company officials are aiming the Embedded Radeon E9260 and E9550 discrete GPUs at a wide range of […]

Hyperconverged infrastructure provider Nutanix is now a public company after raising almost $238 million in its initial public offering. Company officials on Sept. 29 announced it had sold 14.87 million shares of its common stock at a price of $16, which was more than the expected price range of $13 to $15. Nutanix debuted Sept. […]

Enterprise software maker SAP will spend $2.2 billion over the next five years to build out its internet of things capabilities, and kicked off the effort by buying two IoT-related companies whose products will be folded into SAP’s HANA big data platform. Company officials this week said the money will be used to bolster its […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is offering a service that will help enterprises create smart conference rooms utilizing technologies from Microsoft, Logitech, EventBoard and its own Aruba Networks wireless networking unit. The company this week introduced Modern Workplace to help organizations create conference rooms that will include collaboration tools to make the meeting experience easier and increase […]

Lenovo officials this week put a focus on the company’s data center infrastructure offerings with new capabilities in such areas as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, deep learning and—in conjunction with Microsoft—the cloud. The company announced that it is expanding its use of the latest GPU accelerators from Nvidia to boost performance and power efficiency in […]