Jeff Burt

Nvidia reportedly is preparing to end its troubled 16-month bid to buy chip designer Arm for $40 billion, a proposal that has drawn the ire of competitors and the scrutiny of skeptical regulators that have worried about the antitrust implications in the highly competitive and far-reaching semiconductor space. According to a Bloomberg report that cited […]

In the decade since founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced that powering artificial intelligence workloads in the enterprise would be a cornerstone of the company’s plans going forward, Nvidia has relentlessly been expanding its AI and machine learning capabilities with GPUs, software, libraries and integrated appliances like DGX-2. Earlier this year, the company launched its […]

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is rolling out Arm-based processors designed in-house that will power servers within the organization’s data centers, improving the energy efficiency and performance of the facilities as the company expands the cloud services it offers. The move is the latest embrace by a hyperscale cloud provider of Arm’s low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture […]

Dell EMC is rolling out new servers that take into account the increasingly distributed nature of modern IT environments. The latest PowerEdge systems, unveiled last week, are targeted for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) but also can be used by enterprises that are pushing more of their compute and other data center infrastructure beyond the […]

ServiceNow is increasing its focus on human resources and employee workflows as the business world continues to settle into a hybrid work environment that will likely continue beyond the COVID-19 pandemic that spawned it. The company last week launched the latest release of its Now Platform, which has primarily been about IT service management and […]

Google Cloud is offering a tool to enable enterprises to track down abandoned or forgotten projects that are sitting idle but are continuing to use resources, driving up costs and creating security issues. The company this month rolled out Unattended Project Recommender, a feature in its Active Assist cloud management portfolio that leverages machine learning […]

Intel officials this week rolled out a roadmap of new process and packaging technologies they say will help the company work its way back to the leadership position in chip manufacturing by 2025 after several years of missed deadlines and product delays. The announcement is a key part of CEO Pat Gelsinger’s larger multi-billion dollar […]

The Department of Defense’s controversial JEDI project – the $10 billion cloud computing initiative thats been the focus of vendor lawsuits and politics at the highest levels – is no more. Agency officials this week announced they have killed the contract with Microsoft, claiming that technology advances in the cloud computing space and the DoD’s changing requirements […]

The cloud market remains hot, and some of the top providers, including IBM and Microsoft, are looking to add to the capabilities and services in their cloud offerings to make further inroads into enterprises and government agencies. According to recent reports from market research firms IDC and Gartner, cloud infrastructure spending jumped sharply in 2020 – accelerated […]

Telecommunications companies continue to partner with public cloud providers as they expand their reach into the fast-growing edge computing realm. AT&T and Google Cloud recently expanded their year-long partnership by introducing new edge-focused solutions, including the telco’s on-premises Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) offering – combining its existing 5G and MEC  product with such Google Cloud capabilities […]

About two decades ago, Nathan Brookwood was advising giant chip maker Intel, which the Federal Trade Commission was looking into for allegedly abusing its monopoly power in the fast-growing processor market. Intel executives’ argument at the time was that despite the vendor’s 80-plus percent share of the PC chip space, it was a highly competitive […]

Corporate demand for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) security technologies is continuing to grow, as enterprises seek ways to secure network traffic that increasingly moves away from traditional data centers, a new report found. The survey by Versa Networks found that the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many businesses to rapidly adopt remote work models for […]