Jeffrey Burt

As in just about all of the IT business, things are again changing quickly in the data center. New workloads are taking advantage of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and analytics, opening the door for more optimized silicon and pushing back at general-purpose chips. At the same time, the data center […]

Dell EMC officials last fall unveiled enhancements to the company’s converged and hyperconverged infrastructure offerings with deeper integration of VMware technologies. That included Dell EMC’s VxBlock Central software for the vendor’s VxBlock System 1000 converged solution that drives greater awareness, automation and analytics to make management simpler. VxBlock Central included integration with offerings within VMware’s […]

Nvidia officials are taking a significant step in growing the GPU maker’s presence in the rapidly changing data center space and making it a more formidable competitor with Intel with their planned $6.9 billion acquisition of networking vendor Mellanox Technologies. The company announced the deal March 11, following several days of speculation that Nvidia was […]

Veriflow officials are rolling out a new service designed to give enterprises greater visibility and assurance into their network deployments into the public cloud, addressing a growing challenge as organizations continue to migrate more workloads into the cloud and adopt multicloud and hybrid cloud strategies. The vendor’s CloudPredict SaaS offering is aimed at giving enterprise […]

Lenovo officials are putting the company’s edge computing and internet of things portfolio on display this week at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, Spain, including unveiling a new small form-factor ThinkServer system designed to bring processing and storage capabilities closer to where data is increasingly being created. At the same time, the system […]

Arm officials are rolling out the latest generations of the company’s Neoverse infrastructure platform that are designed to help enterprises get better control over the rapid changes happening in their data center with the rise of the internet of things, edge computing, 5G and other trends. The company in October 2018 introduced Neoverse, an infrastructure-class […]

Top data center infrastructure vendors like Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cisco Systems over the past few years have rolled out programs allowing enterprises to essentially rent equipment and pay on a consumption basis rather than buying the equipment outright. Now Lenovo is joining the movement. Lenovo officials last week unveiled TruScale Infrastructure Services, […]

SnapRoute, a 2-year-old startup launched by former Apple engineers and backed by the likes of AT&T and Microsoft, is rolling out a new network operating system that leverages containers and microservices and is designed to integrate into DevOps environments while improving network agility. The company this week said its Cloud Native Network Operating System (CN-NOS) […]

Ericsson and Intel, which have partnered on a number of 5G-related technologies and products over the past couple of years, are coming together again to develop a hardware and software management platform that will enable communications service providers to more easily and affordably launch new services around 5G, network-functions virtualization and the cloud. The multiyear […]

For a long time, networks were thought of as little more than necessary data center piping that link servers, storage and clients, running data between the various points. However, the last several years has seen significant changes in IT, with the world rapidly becoming more data-centric, more software-defined, more distributed and more mobile. At the […]