Jeffrey Burt

Dell EMC is rolling out a new data protection appliance aimed at midsize organizations that officials said have been squeezed between high-priced and complex systems aimed at larger enterprises and low-cost machines that often can lack the necessary performance and efficiency. The vendor’s IDPA (Integrated Data Protection Appliance) DP4400 is a 2U (3.5-inch) system that […]

Advanced Micro Devices in 2016 announced a joint venture deal with a Chinese company to create a company in that country that would license AMD’s technology to create x86 server chips, a move the promised the U.S. chip maker hundreds of millions of dollars in licensing fees and royalties and a greater foothold in the […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is continuing to keep a focus on the network edge and remote offices with the rollout this week of the SimpliVity 2600, a highly dense hyperconverged system offering that the company said will fit well in space-constrained environments. The 2U (3.5-inch) SimpliVity 2600 can work with such applications as virtual desktop infrastructure […]

Five years after Michael Dell took his eponymous company private in a bruising $24 billion buyout, Dell Technologies is preparing to go public again. Company officials announced July 2 a $21.7 billion deal in which DVMT—a tracking stock that tracks the performance of VMware—will be exchanged for a new class of common shares, Dell Technologies […]

The latest edition of the biannual Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers put into stark focus the increasingly heated competition between the United States and China that could set the direction of the high-performance and enterprise computing markets down the road, particularly as the world marches toward exascale computing. According to the list, which […]

LAS VEGAS—Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to enable organizations to run the same enterprise-class applications at the network edge as they do in their data centers and the cloud. At the company’s Discover 2018 show here June 20, HPE officials unveiled a range of new hardware offerings based on their   that are designed to give […]

LAS VEGAS—Hewlett Packard Enterprise is expanding its focus on the cloud and the branch office, two areas of the enterprise that are evolving rapidly to adapt to challenges being presented by such trends as mobility, the rapid growth of the amount of data being generated and the internet of things. At the company’s Discover show […]

Juniper Network officials are putting greater programmability and flexibility into the latest generation of the company’s MX Series routers to address the unknowns that will invariably arise from 5G wireless, the internet of things, software-defined WAN services and other emerging network technologies. The new MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform, introduced this week, includes Juniper’s […]

Qualcomm isn’t getting out of the server processor business, but don’t expect the world’s largest mobile chip maker to directly challenge Intel’s dominant position in the data center. When CEO Steve Mollenkopf said in 2014 that Qualcomm was going to start making Arm-based processors for servers, the company immediately placed itself among the few vendors […]

Intel will begin making discrete GPUs in fewer than two years in a move that will expand its competition with rivals Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices in rapidly growing markets like artificial intelligence, gaming and the data center. Intel executives, including CEO Brian Krzanich, reportedly told a small group of analysts at a meeting earlier […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Cisco Systems officials are opening up the company’s DNA Center to allow partners and developers to build applications and solutions atop the network management software and customers to manage third-party networking systems from competitors like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Juniper Networks and Extreme Networks. The evolution of DNA Center is the company’s latest step in […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—In a business world roiled by such rapid changes as public clouds, mobility, distributed computing and the internet of things, the common denominator has become the network, according to Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins. Because of that, the network will have to adapt to the changes and the rise of modern workloads like artificial […]