Jeffrey Burt

Cisco Systems is adding to its converged infrastructure lineup a system aimed at the fast-growing and compute-intensive artificial intelligence and machine learning market. Company officials on Sept. 10 unveiled the UCS C480 ML rack server, a system designed to accelerate deep learning workloads powered not only by two Intel “Skylake” Scalable Processors but also eight […]

At a time when the upcoming transition to 5G cellular networking is getting a lot of airtime, the Wireless Broadband Alliance is reminding businesses and consumers alike that the next generation of WiFi will bring with it vast improvements in performance and capacity and will be able to support many of the early use cases […]

The software-defined WAN space continues to be among the most active areas in enterprise networking with Cisco Systems’ Meraki unit, Talari Networks, Versa Networks and Colt Network Services all making moves to expand their capabilities. The efforts by the vendors comes as the SD-WAN market grows rapidly, fueled by such modern trends as the cloud, […]

Globalfoundries officials forced a realignment in the small community of next-generation semiconductor manufacturers when they announced this week that the foundry was pulling back on plans to develop a 7-nanometer process. Instead, the company will shift its resources to its 14nm and 12nm processes, which officials said are seeing higher demand from customers. The move […]

Pivot3, a smaller vendor in the crowded hyperconverged infrastructure market, is turning its attention to the needs of the military, intelligence agencies and other organizations that need secure, resilient and fast data processing as they run their tactical operations in harsh environments. The company on Aug. 28 unveiled its Intelligent Edge Command and Control solution, […]

Dell EMC officials are looking to VMware as they expand their product portfolio for a world that is increasingly embracing multiple clouds for their traditional and newer workloads. That reliance was put on display Aug. 27 at the opening day of the VMworld 2018 show in Las Vegas, where Dell EMC unveiled a broad range […]

Qualcomm has begun sampling its upcoming mobile platform that will pair with the company’s Snapdragon X50 modem to give makers of smartphones and other mobile devices a connectivity foundation as they build 5G-capable offerings. The platform, which will include a system-on-a-chip (SoC) built through a 7-nanometer manufacturing process, is the latest move by the world’s […]

Dell EMC officials at the Dell Technologies World show in May, while rolling out a broad array of new products and services, hinted at an upcoming modular system called the PowerEdge MX that would run modern workloads and be a foundation of the company’s composable infrastructure strategy. The PowerEdge MX, which is armed with emerging […]

Arm officials have Intel and its market dominance in their sights with a processor roadmap that they say will challenge their rival in the laptop PC space. In an uncharacteristic move, the chip maker this week unveiled a roadmap that includes not only the new Cortex-A76 CPU design that was introduced in May, which offers […]

Dell EMC is expanding its portfolio of open networking systems to include a 100 Gigabit Ethernet switch designed for Hyperscale data centers  large enterprises and service providers. The highly dense Z9264F-ON switch, with 64 ports of 100GbE in a 2U (3.5-inch) form factor, is designed to address the rapid changes occurring in data centers and […]

Qualcomm officials continue to bring new capabilities to the company’s portfolio of mobile chip platforms as they look to take advantage of such emerging technologies as artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company in February launched its AI Engine in a broad range of mobile platforms, such as its high-end Snapdragon 800 line of systems-on-a-chip […]

Cisco Systems is taking the next step in expanding the reach of its software-defined WAN capabilities throughout its networking portfolio by bringing them to more than 1 million edge routers. Company officials said this week they are upgrading Cisco’s ISR and ASR routers through its IOS XE software, which runs the routers. The move immediately […]