James Niccolai
Deputy News Editor
James Niccolai covers data centers and general technology news for the IDG News Service, and is based in San Francisco.
HPE's cloud chief is leaving the company
The head of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s cloud team is leaving the company in a reorg that will also see the creation of a new cloud division.
Intel profit slides on costs of recent layoffs
Intel's profit dropped sharply last quarter due to heavy costs from a restructuring announced in April, though sales were up thanks to the company's powerful data center group.
AWS buys Cloud9 IDE in snub to Google
Amazon Web Services has bought Cloud9, a popular web-based developer environment that recently aligned itself with the Google Cloud Platform.
HPE wins $3B in lawsuit against Oracle over Itanium
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been awarded $3 billion in a lawsuit against Oracle over a largely forgotten Intel processor.
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Tesla's autopilot is under investigation after a fatal crash
Federal regulators are investigating Tesla's autopilot feature after a fatal crash involving a tractor trailer and one of its Model S cars.
Oracle pledges 'x86 economics' with new Sparc servers
Oracle launched a new family of servers and a new Sparc chip, both aimed at customers considering x86 servers for a scale-out cloud infrastructure.
HPE's CTO to leave amid new round of changes
Nine months after it separated from HP's PC and printer group and a month after it said it would spin off its enterprise services division, HPE CEO Meg Whitman has announced yet more changes that will see CTO Martin Fink leave at the...
Intel's data center chief talks about machine learning without GPUs
Diane Bryant, the head of Intel’s data center group, was at Computex in Taipei this week, in part to explain how the company's latest Xeon Phi processor is a good fit for machine learning.
Microsoft has opened up HoloLens, says partner products are coming soon
Microsoft has opened up the platform behind its HoloLens augmented reality device, inviting partners to build their own products in different form factors and at different price points.
Nvidia chief downplays Google’s A.I. chip
Nvidia's chief executive says he's not phased by Google's new chip for machine learning, even though Nvidia has staked part of its future on building chips for A.I.
