Jeffrey Burt

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 […]

Dell is building out its portfolio of mobile and desktop commercial PCs with an eye toward more easily running such complex modern workloads as artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, and analytics, and is also expanding its lineup of software to secure both the systems and the data that come from them. The […]

Cisco Systems officials for the past three years have promoted Spark as the platform for collaboration among work teams to complement to the networking vendor’s WebEx web conferencing portfolio. Now the company is merging the two lineups to create a single platform that will offer a broad array of services and applications that share the […]