Jeffrey Burt

Lenovo is joining the growing ranks of hardware vendors offering disaggregated network switches that can run third-party operating systems. Company officials this week unveiled the family of ThinkSystem RackSwitch networking gear that will run Cumulus Networks’ Cumulus Linux open network OS as well as leverage Cumulus’ NetQ operational management tool. At the same time, officials […]

Central to the Trump administration’s decision earlier this year to spike Broadcom’s attempted $117 billion hostile takeover of Qualcomm was the desire of U.S. officials and company executives to ensure that the chipmaker’s efforts in 5G technologies remained independent and within U.S. borders. The next-generation cellular connectivity technology promises to bring significantly greater speed and […]

The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s deputy chairman and chief financial officer, by Canadian authorities at the request of U.S. officials is only the latest example of the United States’ national security concerns regarding the massive Chinese maker of smartphones and telecommunication networking gear and comes amid heightened political and economic tensions between the two […]

Barefoot Networks officials for the past couple of years have been driving programmability into networks through its Tofino Ethernet ASIC and the P4 programmable language to address the rising demand for more bandwidth and features to address new workloads like artificial intelligence and machine learning. ASICs for more than two decades have been fixed-function chips, […]

Amazon Web Services will be expanding its massive reach beyond the public cloud and into the data center by offering racks of its own servers and storage appliances that organizations can put into their own data centers and easily connect back to AWS cloud services. AWS officials unveiled its AWS Outposts initiative this week at […]

Amazon Web Services, which got into the processor business in 2015 when it bought Annapurna Labs, is now putting homegrown Arm chips into new cloud instances, a move that puts it ahead of other public cloud providers and is a significant step for Arm’s ambitions in the data center. AWS officials made the announcement on […]

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Discover show in June, President and CEO Antonio Neri announced the company would invest $4 billion over four years to develop technologies and services aimed at the increasingly competitive edge computing space, saying that “the edge is everywhere technology gets put into action and I believe the edge is the next […]

The fast-growing software-defined WAN over the past several years has attracted a broad mix of established vendors and pure-play startups looking to make it easier and less costly for enterprises to move applications and data between branch and remote sites, the network edge and the cloud. Recent years have seen necessary consolidation within the highly […]

As the action continues to push out to the network edge, enterprises are looking not only for better performance from their distributed applications but also for greater security for the data that is being generated and collected out there. Trends like cloud services, a more mobile workforce, increasingly intelligent applications and the internet of things […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The competition between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices in the massive space for data center processors is lining up to be the fiercest since 2003, when AMD launched the first Opteron processor that helped it grab more than 20 percent of the market from its larger rival before ceding its gains over the following […]