Jeff Burt

Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 821 mobile processor will offer improvements in CPU and graphics speeds, support the chip maker’s virtual reality technology and likely begin appearing in new smartphones later this year. Company officials first unveiled the Snapdragon 821 in July, saying the new system-on-a-chip (SoC) will be more of a complement than a replacement for […]

Dell Technologies is set to complete its $63 billion acquisition of EMC next week after Chinese regulators gave their approval for the deal. The two companies on Sept. 7 will close what is the largest deal in tech industry history, and will create a massive company that Dell officials expect will be able to better […]

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich at the company’s annual developer show earlier this month showed off systems running on the vendor’s upcoming “Kaby Lake” processors and said products powered by the chips would hit the market later this year. On Aug. 30 Intel officials took another step in that direction, officially rolling out the 7th Generation […]

BOSTON—Hewlett Packard Enterprise is continuing to expand its capabilities in big data analytics as part of what officials have called a pivot in the way the company is approaching the fast-growing space. At the tech vendor’s Big Data Conference 2016 here Aug. 30, HPE officials unveiled enhancements to the Haven OnDemand machine learning platform it […]

CloudGenix officials want to make it easier and more secure for enterprises’ remote offices to directly access applications from the cloud and to enforce the security, performance and compliance requirements of those applications. The company on Aug. 30 introduced the Instant On (ION) 3000v, which officials said is a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) platform that virtualizes […]

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—On the fifth floor of a former newspaper building in this old port city on Massachusetts’ southern coast, Chris Rezendes and his colleagues are working hard to bring the benefits of the internet of things to smaller businesses. Rezendes (pictured) and the others at INEX Advisors’ IoT Impact Labs are working with a […]

Most service providers are quickly embracing network virtualization technologies that are designed to make their network infrastructures more programmable, scalable, agile and affordable, according to analysts with IHS Markit. In a survey of service providers this month, all respondents said they planned to deploy network-functions virtualization (NFV) technologies at some point, and 81 percent said […]

Dell Inc. is now Dell Technologies. Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell in May announced that the tech vendor would change its name as it pursued buying storage data vendor EMC and its family of federated companies in a massive deal worth around $62 billion. Dell made the announcement during the first day of the […]

The two companies that came out of the breakup of Hewlett-Packard last year are being accused by four ex-employees of age discrimination in the massive layoffs that started before the company split in half and that continued after the restructuring. In the 25-page lawsuit filed Aug. 18 in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., […]

Vidyo officials in the fall will roll out a video platform-as-a-service that they say will give developers the tools and services they need to more easily embed enterprise-grade video conferencing capabilities into their applications, business processes and smart, connected devices. The company currently has Vidyo.io in alpha, and is beginning to open it up to […]