Jeff Burt

Many Americans Dismayed by Advent of Self-Driving Cars Even though there are a lot of advantages to autonomous vehicles, many Americans don’t want to give up control of their cars, according to a Kelley Blue Book survey. The Question of Safety vs. Control Fifty-one percent of those surveyed said they would rather have full control […]

Viptela is turning to the channel to get its software-defined WAN technology out to more customers. The company—one of a growing number of vendors looking to grab a share of an SD-WAN market that IDC analysts predict will hit $6 billion by 2020—on Oct. 6 launched its vForce Global Partner Program, which offers partners a […]

Lenovo reportedly may buy Fujitsu’s PC business, a move that would further expand Lenovo’s lead position in the struggling global PC market while enabling Fujitsu to get the money-losing unit off its books. Fujitsu officials, in a statement to The Wall Street Journal, said they “are considering various options for the PC unit, including a […]

Intel is turning to the cloud to make its consumer security capabilities more effective. The chip maker’s security group this week unveiled enhancements to its McAfee AntiVirus Plus, Internet Security, Total Protection and LifeSafe software suite that aim to protect the growing number and variety of connected devices consumers are using as the internet of […]

AT&T is partnering with VeloCloud to bring software-defined WAN capabilities to its growing software-centric networking efforts. AT&T is the latest carrier to partner with a networking vendor to offer SD-WAN services on their networks, enabling organizations to more quickly and efficiently route traffic across their wide-area networks by giving multiple transport options and automatically choosing […]

Intel over the past few weeks has continued to press forward with its efforts in the growing wearable device market, taking advantage of high-profile fashion shows in New York and Paris to show off its capabilities and putting its financial backing behind a startup in the industry. Intel officials view the wearable space—indeed, the internet […]

Intel has begun sampling its Stratix 10 programmable chips, which the company expects to use as accelerators in data center environments running compute- and data-intensive applications. In a blog post Oct. 4, Dan McNamara, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group, wrote that company engineers were able to combine the chip […]

AT&T is continuing to expand the range of its software-defined network initiative by adding more capabilities to its virtualized services offerings. Officials with the top-tier carrier said users of AT&T’s FlexWare equipment—formerly known as Network Functions on Demand—can now run multiple virtual network functions (VNFs) on a single FlexWare device and then deploy those functions […]

It’s out there on the horizon, tantalizingly close but hard to see, and eagerly awaited by an increasingly connected world. It’s called 5G, essentially the next generation of wireless connectivity after 4G LTE, and it holds the promise of more speed and capacity and lower latency to unlock the potential of everything from gaming, streaming […]

A startup server vendor is looking to make a push into the competitive hyperconverged infrastructure space with offerings that are powered by ARM-based chips and come with a new way of deploying and managing virtual machines. Officials with UK-based Kaleao on Oct. 3 introduced KMAX, an architecture that, like other hyperconverged offerings, tightly integrates compute, […]