Jeff Burt

Intel is going to be putting its upcoming many-core Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” processors and other high-end computing technologies to work as the foundation for a supercomputer for the federal government that will be five to seven times more powerful than current systems. Intel and supercomputer maker Cray were awarded a $200 million contract by […]

The magic of the Windows XP refresh is over—and that, combined with the wait for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 10, is helping slow PC sales around the world. Analysts with both IDC and Gartner this week said global shipments of PCs fell in the first three months of the year, though Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at […]

BOSTON—Salesforce executives spent much of April 9 here pitching the company’s broad range of cloud-based B2B, marketing and sales platforms as tools to help businesses deepen their relationships with their customers and with prospective buyers. But before the Salesforce World Tour event really got underway—before the breakout sessions about everything from the Marketing Cloud to […]

Intel’s negotiations to buy chip maker Altera have broken off over disagreements on the price, according to multiple reports. Altera officials rejected Intel’s offers of a per-share price around $54, according to reports from Bloomberg and CNBC. The news comes about two weeks after rumors surfaced that Intel was in the market to buy Altera […]

BOSTON—Salesforce wants to better arm marketing and sales teams with the necessary tools to more easily engage prospective customers at a time when the buying process is changing. The company is launching new services in its cloud-based marketing platform to give businesses’ sales forces greater visibility into the steps and actions prospective buyers are taking […]

Scientists and officials from the prestigious Bell Labs gathered at the facility’s New Jersey headquarters April 8 to celebrate its 90 years of history and the 13 researchers who over the years have shared the Nobel Prize over the decades for their work in chemistry and physics. Among those honored was the labs’ most recent […]

Intel is looking to shrink its RealSense 3D camera technology, which currently is aimed at notebooks and tablets, so that it will fit into smartphones. At the opening day of the Intel Developer Forum China April 8, CEO Brian Krzanich held up a 6-inch prototype smartphone with an integrated RealSense camera. While Krzanich touted the […]

Fujitsu is bulking up its M10 midrange server portfolio with models powered by the new eight-core 3.7GHz SPARC64 X+ processors, which officials said will boost performance by as much as 30 percent over current systems. The company announced that the single-socket, 1U (1.75-inch) Fujitsu M10-1 and the compact M10-4—four sockets in a 4U (7-inch) form […]

Campus networks are finding themselves under the same pressure as those in the data center as the amount of video-based and mobile traffic rapidly grows, according to Brocade officials. The networking vendor three years ago rolled out its HyperEdge campus networking platform with the goal of bringing scalability, openness and automation to those environments. Company […]

LifeSize Communications is growing the capabilities of its cloud-based video conferencing service, from adding interoperability with Microsoft’s Lync communications platform to easier scheduling through Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar to including browser-based calling. Founder and CEO Craig Malloy 11 months ago introduced the LifeSize Cloud service, shifting the company’s focus away from its on-premises hardware […]

Advanced Micro Devices’ efforts in building out its embedded business will play a key role in how the chip maker’s future rolls out. The embedded space is one of several growth markets AMD officials have been targeting over the past few years as they have looked to reduce the company’s reliance on a volatile global […]

Juniper Networks is putting more compute capabilities into its networking hardware to help financial services institutions accelerate their business-critical applications while reducing the latency in their environments. The networking vendor in the third quarter will launch the QFX5100-AA switch and QFX-PFA accelerator module, which will enable users to distribute more compute capabilities across the network […]