Jeffrey Burt

Lenovo Looks Beyond the Data Center in Enterprise Push

ORLANDO, Fla.—Two years ago, at the company’s first Transform commercial event, the focus for Lenovo data center officials was on servers, with the largest launch of systems in the company’s history. A year later at the show, storage was at the center, with Lenovo unveiling a partnership with NetApp that led to a five-fold year-over-year […]

Dell Goes All Out for the Edge in New Infrastructure Offerings

LAS VEGAS—Dell Technologies is enhancing some infrastructure systems and introducing new ones as the company looks to address enterprise needs in an increasingly distributed and data-driven IT world. The announcements company officials made during the second day of Dell Technologies World 2019 revolved around data storage and protection, networking, servers and hyperconverged infrastructures and were […]

Dell Shows New Management Platform, PCs for Workers

LAS VEGAS—At a time when the workforce is getting more diverse and employee demand for new technologies is ramping, Dell Technologies is looking to give workers the PCs they want to use and the tools to make it easier and faster for IT departments to deploy, manage and secure those systems. Over the first two […]

Dell Makes Major Hybrid Cloud Push With VMware, Azure

LAS VEGAS—Dell Technologies is looking to make its mark in a fast-growing hybrid cloud market with new platforms and services that rely heavily on the integration of its own hardware with VMware infrastructure software and a new partnership with Microsoft involving its Azure public cloud. In the first day of the company’s Dell Technologies World […]

Intel Combining Optane, NAND to Boost Notebook Performance

Intel is combining its Optane memory technology with traditional high-density solid-state storage on a single small module that will begin showing up this quarter in two-in-ones, all-in-ones, mini-PCs and similar systems that are powered by the chip maker’s latest-generation, power-efficient Core processors. Company officials first introduced the idea of combining the Optane technology with Intel’s […]

Best SD-WAN Vendors for 2021

It’s difficult to find another sector of the enterprise IT industry that has seen faster growth than software-defined WAN (wide-area network). Analysts with IDC predict the SD-WAN market to grow 40.4 percent a year from 2017 to 2022, when it will reach $4.5 billion. Dell’Oro Group analysts said the growth rate will hit 35 percent […]

Juniper Moves Its SD-WAN Into the Cloud

Juniper Networks is putting its software-defined WAN solution into the public cloud to make it easier for enterprises to embrace and deploy the technology. Putting its Contrail Service Orchestration platform into the cloud is part of a larger trend in the industry of expanding the management features of SD-WAN beyond the WAN and into areas […]

Intel Pushes Back at its Competition with Cascade Lake Xeons

Intel’s rollout of the latest generation of its Xeon server processors at a time when its dominant position in the data center is being challenged like it hasn’t in more than a decade. At an event April 2 in San Francisco, Intel officials announced the much-anticipated launch its “Cascade Lake” processors, the first of two […]

Why Aruba Wants to Help Enterprises Adopt IoT

LAS VEGAS—Aruba Networks officials are looking to give enterprises the tools to manage the growth of the internet of things and the impact it is having on those businesses. At its Atmosphere 2019 user conference here April 2, Aruba—which essentially has become the networking and edge arm of parent Hewlett Packard Enterprise—unveiled a pair of […]

Intel Chip Shortage Will Stalk PC Market in 2019

The ongoing shortage of Intel processors will continue to haunt the global PC market well into this year, with shipments of everything from desktops to notebooks declining in 2019 even as demand remains relatively steady, according to industry analysts. Officials with Acer, which competes with Asus to be the world’s fifth largest PC maker, earlier […]