Jeff Burt

Cray and SGI have been pulling in significant supercomputer deals as commercial organizations look to leverage petaflop capabilities for their businesses. Cray will build a 5-petaflop supercomputer for Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), a global oil-and-gas company based in Oslo, Norway, that develops high-resolution seismic maps and 3D models of the sub-surface of the Earth that other […]

ShoreTel, which is expected to launch its common communications platform next month, is bringing its network services offerings to its cloud-based customers. The company first began offering network services to customers that use its unified communications (UC) products on-premises in the fall of 2013. Now ShoreTel is making those same services available to organizations using […]

The new Apple Watch will be a key driver in the expected growth of the global wearable device market, which should more than double in size this year, according to analysts with IDC. The market research firm is expecting that shipments of wearable devices—including products for the wrist, eyes and ears—will grow from 19.6 million […]

Karl Armani knew his software-as-a-service company, Medallia, was going to have to find a new way to run its networks. Medallia, a provider of customer experience management software and services, currently uses networking gear from Cisco Systems and Arista Networks in its three data centers worldwide. As officials began planning to open three more data […]

MediaTek is looking to take on larger rivals Qualcomm and Samsung in the high-end mobile chip space. The Taiwanese chip maker is announcing its Helio premium mobile processor family based on the ARM architecture, with the first smartphones powered by the systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) hitting the market in the second quarter. MediaTek has a solid presence […]

Arista Networks and Supermicro are combining forces to develop tightly integrated data center solutions for hyperscale workloads. The two companies announced March 30 that Supermicro will integrate Arista’s networking switch products and EOS+ network operating system into its server and storage hardware to create rack-level offerings that officials said will drive the adoption of software-defined […]

It looks highly likely that ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina will take her business and less-extensive political experience and jump into what will be a busy 2016 presidential race. Speaking on Fox News Sunday March 29, Fiorina said there is a “higher than 90 percent” chance she will run for the Republican nomination, and she expects […]

An energy company and a technology startup in the Netherlands are the latest companies to test whether housing servers in residences can help families reduce their heating costs as the systems run their workloads. Eneco is installing radiator-size servers that the energy company is calling eRadiators in five homes in the country. The servers, built […]

Intel reportedly is negotiating to acquire chip maker Altera, a deal that would be the company’s largest since buying security software maker McAfee in 2011 for $7.7 billion. According to The Wall Street Journal, the deal for Altera would be in the range of $10.4 billion, and would bring together two chip companies that have […]

IBM is creating two innovation centers to help enterprises and service providers learn about and work with network virtualization and automation technologies from both Big Blue and its networking partners. Company officials on March 26 announced the Network Innovation Centers—one in Dallas and the other in Nice, France—where customers can try out technologies around software-defined […]

Samsung may be interested in buying Advanced Micro Devices as it looks to boost its position against such chip-making rivals as Intel and Qualcomm, according to reports coming out of South Korea. A business publication in Seoul is reporting that the giant tech vendor is eyeing AMD, the world’s second-largest chip maker. AMD has struggled […]

Hewlett-Packard announced a pre-configured and pre-tested system designed to make it easier and faster for organizations to deploy and manage their private clouds. The new offerings, announced March 24, expand the vendor’s Helion cloud portfolio and come at a time when enterprise IT departments are under increasing pressure to build more flexible infrastructures faster. Pre-configured […]