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George Leopold

George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).

DARPA Seeks to Boost HPC Programming

September 4th, 2019 (0)

As Moore’s Law runs out of steam, new programming approaches are being pursued with the goal of greater hardware performance with less coding. The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency is launching a new programming effort aimed at leveraging the ...

Cloud Now Seen as a Security ‘Enabler’

September 3rd, 2019 (0)

Cloud security remains a challenge as more enterprises shift mission critical applications and data to hybrid deployments. As cloud adopters go native with applications and services, their cloud platforms are also emerging as a security “enabler” through broader access ...

Facebook Funds NLP Research

August 30th, 2019 (0)

In an effort to improve machine translation of non-English languages, Facebook has announced research award winners who will also investigate ways to improve natural language processing and its deployment of better-trained NLP models on edge devices. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) ...

Baidu Embraces Intel Optane for In-Memory Databases

August 29th, 2019 (0)

Chinese e-commerce giant Baidu is building a new platform based on Intel Corp.’s Optane DC persistent memory as a means of upgrading search engine results delivered by its in-memory databases used to feed its streaming data services. The partners ...

Rackspace Fleshes Out Hybrid Cloud Offerings

August 28th, 2019 (0)

Cloud vendors are increasingly focused on supporting legacy IT infrastructure as their customers shift to hybrid cloud deployments that include emerging microservices to deliver cloud-native applications. With those requirements in mind, private cloud specialist Rackspace this week announced a ...

Google, Intel Beef Up Anthos Cloud

August 26th, 2019 (0)

Google is ramping up its Anthos cloud services platform with next-general Intel Xeon Scalable processors as the partners broaden their cloud collaboration around hybrid and multiple cloud deployments. Anthos, formerly Google’s cloud services platform, combines Kubernetes, the Istio service mesh and ...

Dell Adds Kubernetes Support to VxRail

August 26th, 2019 (0)

Dell Technologies joins the growing list of IT vendors expanding support for the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator with the addition of automated Kubernetes infrastructure deployments via its VxRail running in conjunction with VMware’s container service. VxRail, Dell EMC’s hyperconverged infrastructure ...

OCP Storage Hits the Datacenter

August 23rd, 2019 (0)

The emerging market for storage equipment based on the Open Compute Project is expected to more than double through 2023, according to datacenter storage equipment forecast. IHS Markit said this week it expects global revenues from the purchase of ...

Kubernetes Gets a Service Mesh

August 22nd, 2019 (0)

Red Hat is integrating into its OpenShift platform a trio of service meshes designed to ease management and security of microservices running in application containers. The mesh is based on the IBM- and Google-backed Istio and other open source ...

Singularity Moves Up the Container Value Chain

August 20th, 2019 (0)

The enterprise version of the Singularity HPC container platform released this week by Sylabs is designed to allow users to create, secure and share the high-end containers in self-hosted production deployments. The enterprise version emerged from beta testing that ...