Jeffrey Burt

Extreme Networks is unveiling new 802.11ax WiFi access points, the latest move by an enterprise networking vendor to deliver WiFi 6 capabilities to enterprises to bolster their wireless capabilities at the network edge. The six new access points, which are powerful enough to be deployed in sports stadiums but also are aimed at indoor and […]

IBM said Jan. 9 that it has made a significant step forward in its quantum computing initiative with the development of the Q System One, a highly integrated, modular system the includes IBM-developed hardware, firmware and electronics that the company says is designed for both scientific and commercial use. At the same time, company officials […]

Giant Chinese tech company Huawei, a longtime partner of chip maker Intel, has unveiled a server processor based on the low-power Arm architecture and a new family of systems that will be powered by the CPU. Huawei officials this week introduced the Kunpeng 920, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) based on Arm’s ARMv8 architecture that they said […]

MIPS has had a long, strange trip over the past few decades, from when the silicon technology was first used by Silicon Graphics in the mid-1980s to build the first multiprocessor server. Since then it has been bought by SGI, which spun it out in the late 1990s when Intel-based servers began to dominate the […]

Hyperscalers like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook continue to be key drivers of a global server market that is seeing both growing revenues and shipments, according to industry analysts. The latest proof comes from analysts from IDC, who reported this week that revenue in the worldwide server space jumped 37.7 percent in the third quarter […]

IBM is expanding its capabilities around artificial intelligence with a converged system that includes the giant tech vendor’s Spectrum Scale scale-out file system and Nvidia’s GPU-based DGX-1 supercomputer to enable organizations to more easily access the massive amounts of data that are crucial for running such workloads. The introduction of IBM Spectrum AI with Nvidia […]

Lenovo is joining the growing ranks of hardware vendors offering disaggregated network switches that can run third-party operating systems. Company officials this week unveiled the family of ThinkSystem RackSwitch networking gear that will run Cumulus Networks’ Cumulus Linux open network OS as well as leverage Cumulus’ NetQ operational management tool. At the same time, officials […]

Central to the Trump administration’s decision earlier this year to spike Broadcom’s attempted $117 billion hostile takeover of Qualcomm was the desire of U.S. officials and company executives to ensure that the chipmaker’s efforts in 5G technologies remained independent and within U.S. borders. The next-generation cellular connectivity technology promises to bring significantly greater speed and […]

The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s deputy chairman and chief financial officer, by Canadian authorities at the request of U.S. officials is only the latest example of the United States’ national security concerns regarding the massive Chinese maker of smartphones and telecommunication networking gear and comes amid heightened political and economic tensions between the two […]

Barefoot Networks officials for the past couple of years have been driving programmability into networks through its Tofino Ethernet ASIC and the P4 programmable language to address the rising demand for more bandwidth and features to address new workloads like artificial intelligence and machine learning. ASICs for more than two decades have been fixed-function chips, […]

Amazon Web Services will be expanding its massive reach beyond the public cloud and into the data center by offering racks of its own servers and storage appliances that organizations can put into their own data centers and easily connect back to AWS cloud services. AWS officials unveiled its AWS Outposts initiative this week at […]

Amazon Web Services, which got into the processor business in 2015 when it bought Annapurna Labs, is now putting homegrown Arm chips into new cloud instances, a move that puts it ahead of other public cloud providers and is a significant step for Arm’s ambitions in the data center. AWS officials made the announcement on […]