Jeffrey Burt

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Discover show in June, President and CEO Antonio Neri announced the company would invest $4 billion over four years to develop technologies and services aimed at the increasingly competitive edge computing space, saying that “the edge is everywhere technology gets put into action and I believe the edge is the next […]

The fast-growing software-defined WAN over the past several years has attracted a broad mix of established vendors and pure-play startups looking to make it easier and less costly for enterprises to move applications and data between branch and remote sites, the network edge and the cloud. Recent years have seen necessary consolidation within the highly […]

As the action continues to push out to the network edge, enterprises are looking not only for better performance from their distributed applications but also for greater security for the data that is being generated and collected out there. Trends like cloud services, a more mobile workforce, increasingly intelligent applications and the internet of things […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The competition between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices in the massive space for data center processors is lining up to be the fiercest since 2003, when AMD launched the first Opteron processor that helped it grab more than 20 percent of the market from its larger rival before ceding its gains over the following […]

Dell EMC is looking to press its advantage in the fast-growing hyperconverged infrastructure space by integrating even more VMware technologies with its VxRail offerings. At the VMworld 2018 Europe show this week in Barcelona, Spain, the company unveiled enhancements to the VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) offerings that are designed to drive greater automation, easier management […]

Cray officials are unveiling the company’s first exascale-capable supercomputer, a system named Shasta that is designed to give organizations choices in compute and networking technologies and a single system to run such increasingly complex workloads as artificial intelligence, analytics, modeling and simulations. The supercomputer is aimed at simplifying computing for modern workloads that typically run […]

IBM is making a significant play in an increasingly hybrid- and multicloud world with its proposed $34 billion acquisition of longtime technology partner Red Hat, a leader in open-source enterprise software that was making its own push into the cloud. IBM officials over the weekend announced the giant tech vendor’s intent to buy Red Hat, […]

Advanced Micro Devices’ continued re-entry into the server market behind the strength of its Epyc chips launched last year got another boost this week when Oracle officials said they were introducing Epyc-based instances in the company’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The tech vendors announced the move this week at the Oracle OpenWorld 2018 show, with Oracle […]

A small startup is looking to take on larger chip makers with wireless platforms based on the new Bluetooth 5 standard that officials say will lead to battery-free devices for the fast-growing internet of things. Atmosic Technologies officials this week are taking the wraps off their initial ultra-low power chip platforms that are designed to […]

Lenovo is adding to its roster of software partners in the fast-growing hyperconverged infrastructure space with a new offering that combines its servers with Scale Computing’s platform and is aimed at midsize companies and edge computing environments. The new solution, called the Scale Computing HC3 Edge Platform on Lenovo Servers, is designed to make deployment […]

Arm officials are keeping a focus on the cloud and network edge at this week’s TechCon 2018 show as the industry prepares for the tens of billions of smart, connected devices on the horizon and the massive amounts of data those devices will produce. The chip designer on Oct. 16 unveiled its plans for a […]

The global PC market is continuing to hold steady after several years of contraction, but ongoing concerns about a shortage of Intel processors as the industry slides into the high-demand holiday buying season could have an impact as the year comes to a close. According to analysts with IDC and Gartner, PC shipments worldwide stayed […]