Jeff Burt

Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins last year spoke about the networking giant’s plan to eventually offer its entire portfolio as a service, a nod to the growing demand from enterprises to have on-premises data centers that operate in a more cloud-like fashion. That means infrastructures that not only leverage automation and can scale up and […]

In 2017, the WannaCry and NotPetya attacks put cybersecurity professionals and the world at large on notice that ransomware was a formidable threat that would have to be dealt with in the coming years. Ransomware wasn’t new, but the two variants were an escalation that hit hundreds of thousands of systems around the globe and […]

Intel is undertaking a multi-prong, multi-billion dollar initiative under new CEO Pat Gelsinger to reestablish the chip maker’s manufacturing preeminence after several years of challenges that damaged its reputation and saw competitors pass it by. Gelsinger this week unveiled a plan, dubbed IDM 2.0 – an acceleration of its integrated device manufacturing model – that […]

Hyperscale data center operators like Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Facebook for years have turned to in-house development of hardware systems and components when what they needed was not available from OEMs. Faced with operating massive and fast-growing data centers and offering a wide array of new services to end users, these hyperscalers are […]

The battle for data center dominance between Intel and AMD is about to get a little hotter. AMD made the first move Monday with the release of its third-generation Epyc “Milan” server processors, which AMD officials said will offer higher-performing and more efficient alternatives to Intel in key segments such as enterprise, high-performance computing (HPC) […]

Enterprise cloud adoption has been ramping up for some time, an ongoing acceleration that has only gotten faster during the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysts at Synergy Research Group have tracked cloud spending worldwide for years and are finding a consistently upward trend. In February, they noted that in the fourth quarter of 2020, enterprise spending on […]

The last few years have seen a rush to move compute, storage, applications and capabilities like data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) out to the edge of the network, closer to where the sources and users of the data are. The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), increasing mobility and digitization, the rise of […]

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki earlier this month told journalists that the Biden Administration was prepared to help a battered semiconductor industry beset by challenges that have resulted in a shortage of processors that power everything from laptops to smartphones to autonomous vehicles. The promise of help came at the same time that the […]

The COVID-19 pandemic slowed enterprise spending in what had been a white-hot software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) market. The economic impact of the ongoing global public health crisis forced organizations to shift budgetary priorities. In the area of networking, management, collaboration and remote work became more important than a technology largely aimed at connecting branch offices to […]

About a decade ago, executives with ARM said they saw an opportunity to move the company’s low-power chip designs – which had become the dominant architecture in the rapidly expanding smartphone and tablet markets – up the ladder and into increasingly dense and energy-hungry data centers. After some stops and starts and years of building […]

Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend Donald Trump’s account after the violent insurrection at the Capitol Jan. 6 was the culmination of an escalating debate among politicians and the general public about how much was too much when it came to the former president’s tweets about election integrity and myriad other issues. It pretty much fell […]

Data is the coin of the realm in IT and will continue to grow in importance as the industry moves into the future. Businesses are being swamped by the amount of data they are generating and the need to find the bits of business-critical information that will help them remain competitive and drive services and […]