Jeffrey Burt

Dell is building out its portfolio of mobile and desktop commercial PCs with an eye toward more easily running such complex modern workloads as artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, and analytics, and is also expanding its lineup of software to secure both the systems and the data that come from them. The […]

Cisco Systems officials for the past three years have promoted Spark as the platform for collaboration among work teams to complement to the networking vendor’s WebEx web conferencing portfolio. Now the company is merging the two lineups to create a single platform that will offer a broad array of services and applications that share the […]

Dell EMC and Fujitsu are the first top-tier server makers to incorporate programmable processors from Intel into their systems, a move that officials with the chip maker say is an initial step that will lead to other vendors offering the acceleration technology in their offerings. Intel is announcing April 11 that the two system OEMs […]

IBM has new, thinner mainframe systems that company officials say better fit cloud computing environments. The z14 Model ZR1 and LinuxONE Rockhopper II put the capabilities of IBM’s Z14 mainframe systems announced last year into an industry-standard 19-inch, single-frame design, giving organizations systems designed for such modern tasks as data analytics, machine learning, containers and […]

Attackers are taking aim at critical infrastructure in multiple countries by exploiting a software flaw in some Cisco switches that has been a point of concern for more than a year. According to a blog post issued April 5 by Cisco’s Talos security unit, the cyber-attacks are exploiting what Cisco officials are calling a “protocol […]

LAS VEGAS—Aruba Networks officials are pushing more artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities out to the network edge so it’s closer the cloud and more accessible to mobile and internet of things devices. When Hewlett Packard Enterprise bought Aruba in 2015 for $3 billion, the idea was to bring together Aruba’s expertise in wireless networks […]

The federal government’s decision to block Broadcom’s $117 billion bid to buy Qualcomm didn’t buy the chip maker much time to find its footing after what had been a tumultuous three months. Just days after President Trump signed a presidential order that put a spike into Broadcom’s hostile takeover effort because of national security concerns, […]

The possibility of Dell Technologies merging with VMware continues to get a cold reception by some in the industry, who see such a deal as particularly damaging to VMware investors and benefiting only Dell. Despite persistent rumors that have been circulating about such a deal since January, VMware this month reported strong quarterly financial numbers, […]

The growing adoption of software-defined networking over the past several years has given a boost to makers of networking white boxes. The separation of the network operating system, control plane and network tasks from the underlying proprietary hardware meant that organizations could run that software on white-box switches and servers that are less expensive than […]

In Broadcom’s increasingly contentious bid to acquire chip-making rival, 5G networking has emerged to become has drawn the attention of regulators and lawmakers overtaking other issues such as the billions that Broadcom is willing to spend on the deal and oversized influence the combined companies would have in the global technology industry. Broadcom’s buyout bid […]

Broadcom’s hostile takeover bid for chip-making rival Qualcomm has become even more hostile now that a U.S. national security agency over the weekend ordered Qualcomm to delay a shareholder vote scheduled for March 6 that would have set the direction of the proposed $117 billion deal. The order by the Committee on Foreign Investment in […]

Rivals Intel and Qualcomm each are putting a focus on 5G connectivity this week at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, looking to gain an advantage in the emerging next generation of wireless connectivity and expanding the competitive ground between the two chip makers. At the show, Intel officials said the company is working with […]