Author Archives: George Leopold

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).

Tech Sector Frets Over U.S. Export Controls

May 20th, 2019 (0)

As regulators prepare to tighten U.S. export controls with an eye toward restricting technology transfers to China, industry groups are pushing back, arguing that overly restrictive rules would cost U.S. industry hundreds of billions in export sales. Trade groups ...

Microsoft Transfers Vector Search To GitHub

May 17th, 2019 (0)

Since acquiring GitHub in June 2018, Microsoft has sought to make good on its pledge to retain the project collaboration platform’s “developer-first ethos.” This week it turned over to GitHub an AI search tool as an open-source project. The vector ...

Net Appliances Emerge to Handle Data Deluge

May 16th, 2019 (0)

Network infrastructure has had a hard time keeping up with the data explosion and surging demand for real-time capabilities as everything but the kitchen sink is networked. Incremental progress has been made via open and virtual networking efforts that ...

VMware Boosts Multi-Cloud Push with Bitnami Deal

May 15th, 2019 (0)

VMware continues its push into micro-services for multi-cloud deployments with its acquisition of Bitnami, a provider of server applications and development tools running virtually or hosted in the cloud. The deal for Bitnami announced Wednesday (May 15) follows VMware’s ...

Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia

May 14th, 2019 (0)

There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed a new deep learning record for image classification on the ...

NSF Gets Pushback on AI Ethics Research

May 10th, 2019 (0)

The National Science Foundation is taking some heat for collaborating with Amazon to fund research on AI fairness. With proposals due at the end of June (“letters of intent” were due on May 10), critics are warning that AI ...

SAP HANA Gets a Cloud Boost

May 10th, 2019 (0)

SAP continues to push its flagship HANA in-memory database platform higher into the cloud with a range of new analytics, cloud storage, AI and robotic process automation features aimed down-market beyond big companies and “complex scenarios.” As SAP (NYSE: ...

Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift

May 8th, 2019 (0)

Cloud infrastructure providers targeting the booming hybrid cloud market continue to coalesce around the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator that serves as a bridge between datacenters and public clouds for applications such as databases. For example, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Red ...

RHEL 8 Aimed at Hybrid Cloud Deployments

May 7th, 2019 (0)

The Linux operating system continues to evolve as more enterprise users shift their IT operations to hybrid and multiple cloud deployments while seeking a single OS capable of handling a variety of workloads. That’s the pitch made by Red ...

NVMe Fabrics Enter Express Lane

May 6th, 2019 (0)

As the volume and velocity of data grows exponentially, storage vendors are increasingly promoting NVM Express as a device interface for accessing non-volatile storage media. Enterprise storage vendors such as Western Digital describe the challenge this way: transforming the ...