Jeffrey Burt

Intel continues to be the dominant server chip vendor in the industry, but a rapidly changing data center environment fueled by the rise of such emerging technologies as cloud computing, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning is opening the door to new and re-energized rivals that are looking to grab some of the 95 […]

Update: The International Trade Commission on July 20 refused to set aside a ban on the importation of particular Ethernet switch products from Arista that the commission had found violated two Cisco patents. Marc Taxay, senior vice president and general counsel for Arista, said in a statement that company executives are “deeply disappointed” in the […]

Qualcomm this week escalated its growing patent dispute with Apple by filing a complaint with federal regulators to ban imports of iPhones that the mobile chip maker claims infringe on six patents that focus on such key areas as battery life and performance. In addition, Qualcomm officials are suing Apple in federal court for allegedly […]

Dell officials are aiming to make it easier for customers to deploy and manage their virtual desktop environments with new and enhanced hardware and software offerings, with some targeting small and midsize businesses in particular. The products, which were rolled out July 6, include a new hyperconverged infrastructure solution powered by Nutanix’s software that officials […]

AT&T officials continue to promote the carrier’s efforts to make white box networking gear a key part of its project to transform its infrastructure into a software-centric network that more capable of handling the rapidly changing requirements of the  internet of things, mobile devices, big data and the cloud. The service provider in April announced […]

LAS VEGAS—The focus for Cisco Systems officials over the past week has been on reinventing enterprise networks to make them more open, automated, intelligent and programmable, which will better equip them to handle workloads presented by cloud computing, mobility, big data and the internet of things. At the Cisco Live event here June 27, the […]

LAS VEGAS—Cisco Systems and Apple turned some heads two years ago when the companies announced a strategic partnership aimed expanding the device maker’s presence in the enterprise and giving the networking giant greater play in the rapidly growing areas of mobility and the internet of things. Apple and Cisco initially partnered with the goal of […]

IBM is continuing its efforts to expand the reach of its Watson cognitive computing technology in the fast-growing connected car market by partnering with high-end automaker BMW for its new CarData platform. IBM will connect its Bluemix cloud platform with CarData, where data from the vehicles will be hosted and analyzed by Watson IoT and […]

The amount of global IP traffic will almost triple over the next five years, hitting 3.3 zettabytes by 2021 as multiple factors continue to accelerate the worldwide digitization trend, according to Cisco Systems officials. According to the latest version of Cisco’s annual Internet Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast, the internet of things (IoT) will continue […]

AT&T officials continue to aggressively expand their virtual network efforts, most recently unveiling plans to buy the Vyatta network operating system and associated products from Brocade, which had become a key player in the network virtualization space before Broadcom late last year announced its intent to buy the company in a multi-billion-dollar deal. The telecommunications […]

ARM is targeting the growing artificial intelligence and machine learning spaces with its latest mobile processors, which are the first to be based on the chip designer’s new DynamIQ architecture. As the annual Computex show gets underway in Taiwan, ARM is unveiling the Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), which company officials said are designed to […]

Supercomputer vendor Cray will make its systems and technologies available to high-performance computing organizations, enterprises and other end users via the cloud. The company is partnering with Boston-based cloud provider Markley to offer the supercomputing technologies as a hosted service, starting with the life sciences industry, Cray officials said May 16. The companies will expand […]