Jeffrey Burt

Hitachi Vantara is bringing GPUs and NVM-Express to its lineup of converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions as part of a larger effort to offer a broad range of systems that can address almost any workload in modern data centers or cloud environments. As part of that effort, the company—the technology subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd.—also is […]

The relatively stagnant PC market has been a focus of chip makers at the Computex tech show in Taipei this week, with officials from both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices promising significant boosts in core count in upcoming processors and Qualcomm unveiling a new chip aimed at Windows 10 Always Connected PCs. At the show, […]

Nvidia is rolling out a platform designed to bring greater artificial intelligence to robots in a wide range of industries and which is only the latest step by the company to make its GPUs the central computing technology for machine learning and other modern workloads. The chip maker introduced the platform, named Isaac, over the […]

The global server market is continuing to expand, driven by a broad range of factors including demand from large cloud service providers to the rise of modern workloads such as artificial intelligence and analytics. Established server original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as Dell and Hewett Packard Enterprise as well are original design manufacturers (ODMs) are […]

More than a decade ago, Nvidia executives championed general-purpose GPUs as accelerators for high-performance computing workloads. They would complement processors to enable servers to accelerate application performance while keeping a lid on power consumption. Now, at a time when modern workloads are demanding even more compute power, the company is continuing to position GPUs as […]

Polycom is expanding its cloud capabilities for enterprises and service providers as part of a larger strategic shift that started when the collaboration technology vendor became a private company in 2016. Officials this week unveiled Polycom Cloud Services, a unified cloud strategy that initially is focusing on giving enterprises and service providers the tools to […]

Arista Networks’ expansion of its networking portfolio from the data center out to the campus will give enterprises more options in what is becoming an increasingly important part of their infrastructures and open up a new front in the vendor’s ongoing competition with rival Cisco Systems.  At the company’s analyst meeting this month, Arista officials […]

Nutanix, which initially made its name with its software stack for hyperconverged infrastructures, is continuing to build out its portfolio for products aimed at helping enterprises more easily manage and migrate their workloads through multiple cloud environments. Included in the host of new capabilities announced this week at Nutanix’s .NEXT Conference was the addition of […]

Chip maker Cavium is giving system makers another route for bringing the Arm architecture into data centers. Company officials this week announced that the latest generation of its Arm-based system-on-a-chip (SoC), the ThunderX2, is now generally available and aimed at one- and two-socket systems for enterprise data centers, cloud infrastructures and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. […]

LAS VEGAS—When Dell bought storage giant EMC in 2016, the acquisition created a technology giant with multiple businesses that stretched from the PC to the data center and into the cloud, encompassing servers, storage, networking and virtualization as well as management and security products. CEO Michael Dell and other executives saw an opportunity to leverage […]

LAS VEGAS—There has been a lot of buzz over the past few years about the need for companies to change the way they do business to address a rapidly evolving landscape driven by the massive amounts of data that is being generated by the billions of connected devices, the rise of cloud computing and emerging […]

Juniper Networks officials are looking to ease the path for enterprises adopting a future that involves running workloads on multiple cloud environments and are using their new Contrail Enterprise Multicloud platform as a foundational element of that strategy. The platform is designed to give companies a single tool for orchestrating, managing and controlling workloads running […]