Jeffrey Burt

Nvidia officials are taking a significant step in growing the GPU maker’s presence in the rapidly changing data center space and making it a more formidable competitor with Intel with their planned $6.9 billion acquisition of networking vendor Mellanox Technologies. The company announced the deal March 11, following several days of speculation that Nvidia was […]

Veriflow officials are rolling out a new service designed to give enterprises greater visibility and assurance into their network deployments into the public cloud, addressing a growing challenge as organizations continue to migrate more workloads into the cloud and adopt multicloud and hybrid cloud strategies. The vendor’s CloudPredict SaaS offering is aimed at giving enterprise […]

Lenovo officials are putting the company’s edge computing and internet of things portfolio on display this week at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain, including unveiling a new small form-factor ThinkServer system designed to bring processing and storage capabilities closer to where data is increasingly being created. At the same time, the system […]

Arm officials are rolling out the latest generations of the company’s Neoverse infrastructure platform that are designed to help enterprises get better control over the rapid changes happening in their data center with the rise of the internet of things, edge computing, 5G and other trends. The company in October 2018 introduced Neoverse, an infrastructure-class […]

Top data center infrastructure vendors like Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cisco Systems over the past few years have rolled out programs allowing enterprises to essentially rent equipment and pay on a consumption basis rather than buying the equipment outright. Now Lenovo is joining the movement. Lenovo officials last week unveiled TruScale Infrastructure Services, […]

SnapRoute, a 2-year-old startup launched by former Apple engineers and backed by the likes of AT&T and Microsoft, is rolling out a new network operating system that leverages containers and microservices and is designed to integrate into DevOps environments while improving network agility. The company this week said its Cloud Native Network Operating System (CN-NOS) […]

Ericsson and Intel, which have partnered on a number of 5G-related technologies and products over the past couple of years, are coming together again to develop a hardware and software management platform that will enable communications service providers to more easily and affordably launch new services around 5G, network-functions virtualization and the cloud. The multiyear […]

For a long time, networks were thought of as little more than necessary data center piping that link servers, storage and clients, running data between the various points. However, the last several years has seen significant changes in IT, with the world rapidly becoming more data-centric, more software-defined, more distributed and more mobile. At the […]

Dell EMC officials are eyeing the enterprise campus and other edge environments as next steps for the company’s now 5-year-old open networking efforts that until this year have focused primarily on central data centers. In a blog post this week, Tom Burns, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC Networking and Solutions business, […]

Dell EMC, which in 2017 introduced its technology stack designed to bring Microsoft’s Azure services to on-premises data centers, is now extending those capabilities out to remote sites and the network edge. The company this week is introducing its Dell EMC Tactical Microsoft Azure Stack, a ruggedized version that is designed to stand up to […]

With data and applications increasingly being created and used outside the confines of the data center, Cisco Systems officials are pushing more of the company’s enterprise infrastructure and software into the cloud and out to the edge. At the company’s Cisco Live event in Barcelona, Spain, this week, Cisco executives announced that they are extending […]

Arrcus, a startup that came onto the fast-changing network scene last year with an open operating system designed to run on white-box switches, is expanding its capabilities by offering support for 400 Gigabit Ethernet and high-density 100GbE switching platforms. Company officials this week unveiled support for Broadcom’s StrataXGS Tomahawk 3 silicon on switches offering by […]