Jeffrey Burt

Dell EMC officials are eyeing the enterprise campus and other edge environments as next steps for the company’s now 5-year-old open networking efforts that until this year have focused primarily on central data centers. In a blog post this week, Tom Burns, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC Networking and Solutions business, […]

Dell EMC, which in 2017 introduced its technology stack designed to bring Microsoft’s Azure services to on-premises data centers, is now extending those capabilities out to remote sites and the network edge. The company this week is introducing its Dell EMC Tactical Microsoft Azure Stack, a ruggedized version that is designed to stand up to […]

With data and applications increasingly being created and used outside the confines of the data center, Cisco Systems officials are pushing more of the company’s enterprise infrastructure and software into the cloud and out to the edge. At the company’s Cisco Live event in Barcelona, Spain, this week, Cisco executives announced that they are extending […]

Arrcus, a startup that came onto the fast-changing network scene last year with an open operating system designed to run on white-box switches, is expanding its capabilities by offering support for 400 Gigabit Ethernet and high-density 100GbE switching platforms. Company officials this week unveiled support for Broadcom’s StrataXGS Tomahawk 3 silicon on switches offering by […]

Extreme Networks is unveiling new 802.11ax WiFi access points, the latest move by an enterprise networking vendor to deliver WiFi 6 capabilities to enterprises to bolster their wireless capabilities at the network edge. The six new access points, which are powerful enough to be deployed in sports stadiums but also are aimed at indoor and […]

IBM said Jan. 9 that it has made a significant step forward in its quantum computing initiative with the development of the Q System One, a highly integrated, modular system the includes IBM-developed hardware, firmware and electronics that the company says is designed for both scientific and commercial use. At the same time, company officials […]

Giant Chinese tech company Huawei, a longtime partner of chip maker Intel, has unveiled a server processor based on the low-power Arm architecture and a new family of systems that will be powered by the CPU. Huawei officials this week introduced the Kunpeng 920, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) based on Arm’s ARMv8 architecture that they said […]

MIPS has had a long, strange trip over the past few decades, from when the silicon technology was first used by Silicon Graphics in the mid-1980s to build the first multiprocessor server. Since then it has been bought by SGI, which spun it out in the late 1990s when Intel-based servers began to dominate the […]

Hyperscalers like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook continue to be key drivers of a global server market that is seeing both growing revenues and shipments, according to industry analysts. The latest proof comes from analysts from IDC, who reported this week that revenue in the worldwide server space jumped 37.7 percent in the third quarter […]

IBM is expanding its capabilities around artificial intelligence with a converged system that includes the giant tech vendor’s Spectrum Scale scale-out file system and Nvidia’s GPU-based DGX-1 supercomputer to enable organizations to more easily access the massive amounts of data that are crucial for running such workloads. The introduction of IBM Spectrum AI with Nvidia […]