Jeffrey Burt

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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’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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As in just about all of the IT business, things are again changing quickly in the data center. New workloads are taking advantage of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and analytics, opening the door for more optimized silicon and pushing back at general-purpose chips. At the same time, the data center […]

Dell EMC officials last fall unveiled enhancements to the company’s converged and hyperconverged infrastructure offerings with deeper integration of VMware technologies. That included Dell EMC’s VxBlock Central software for the vendor’s VxBlock System 1000 converged solution that drives greater awareness, automation and analytics to make management simpler. VxBlock Central included integration with offerings within VMware’s […]