Jeff Burt

Cloudera a decade ago was one of several startups that saw the promise of Hadoop at a time when the amount of data being generated was exploding. The company offered a commercial product based on the open-source Big Data technology to enable enterprises to analyze and manage all that data. Investors were throwing money at […]

Organizations anxious for more speed and bandwidth from their wireless networks are beginning to see products – from routers to devices – come to market that can leverage Wi-Fi 6E, the latest improvement in the ubiquitous wireless technology. Just over a year after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened up the 6GHz spectrum to unlicensed […]

Arm’s chip designs have become the dominant architecture in the cell phone space, but the company continues to aim beyond that market with the launch of its Total Compute solutions for consumer client devices. That ambitious rollout includes its latest CPUs and GPUs as well as a new interconnect and software ecosystem designed to tie […]

IBM is continuing to double down on its growth strategy around hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) while at the same time reminding organizations of the broad reach of its portfolio and R&D efforts in areas such as processor design, quantum computing and even its decades-old mainframe business. At its annual Think Conference this week, […]

IBM’s announcement last week that it has developed the world’s first 2-nanometer process for developing chips promises to reverberate throughout the IT industry in the coming years, from the largest enterprise computers down to the tiniest Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Processors built from the process will deliver as much as 45 percent higher performance […]

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies are putting a focus on storage in their larger efforts to bring a cloud-like environment to enterprise data centers. Both system makers this week unveiled storage-as-a-service offerings that make their technologies available on demand and through a flexible subscription model, giving organizations the agility, scalability and on-demand capabilities they have […]

Red Hat, long the top vendor of commercial open source software, has in recent years put a sharp focus on the rapidly expanding hybrid cloud space. The company, acquired by IBM for $34 billion in 2019 for its own accelerated push into hybrid clouds, has viewed the cloud space as a highly interoperable platform play, […]

The COVID-19 pandemic that forced a massive shift to remote work has helped fuel adoption of virtual and cloud-based PC technologies by enterprises looking for ways to ensure secure access to corporate networks and data by their work-from-home employees. Vendors are pushing out products to meet that demand, particularly as it becomes clearer that many […]

Cybercriminals launched an unprecedented number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the second half of 2020, fueled by the COVID-19 outbreak. Many of those attacks were aimed at industries that saw surging demand during the pandemic, including e-commerce, healthcare, online learning and streaming services, according to a new report by Netscout. Overall, more than 10 […]

Dell Technologies is spinning off VMware, the virtualization pioneer and hybrid cloud software provider that the company inherited when it acquired storage giant EMC for about $60 billion five years ago. The move ends years of speculation about the futures of the two companies and is another step in helping Dell pay down the massive […]

Intel’s new “Ice Lake” third-generation Xeon scalable processors are reviving interest in liquid cooling, an old concept that’s begun to move into the mainstream in recent years. Lenovo officials earlier this month announced new servers powered by the Intel chips, including extending the reach of its Neptune warm-water cooling technology deeper into some rack systems […]

LG Electronics was an early innovator in the smartphone market at a time when it was young and fast-growing. This week, the company announced that it’s exiting a much more mature smartphone market that no longer seems to have room for it. Rumors that the South Korean multinational conglomerate would drop its smartphone business have […]