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).
U.S. Chip Initiative Aims For ‘Moore’s (Law) Inflection’
November 7th, 2018
It is telling that the keynote speaker at a major U.S. computer engineering conference represents the Department of Defense, which is pouring billions of R&D dollars into new chip architectures, chip design tools, novel semiconductor materials and, most recently, ...
Rackspace Delivers Multi-Cloud via VMware on AWS
November 6th, 2018
Rackspace is pointing its private cloud services toward multi-cloud deployments with the release of a VMware cloud running on Amazon Web Services. Rackspace said the managed service is intended to enable its private cloud customers to run their infrastructure ...
AI Partnerships for Driverless Cars Gear Up
November 6th, 2018
AI investments and deployment for driverless vehicles are speeding up, with another auto manufacturer partnering with a computer vision startup and an autonomous vehicle specialist deploying Nvidia’s Xavier platform. Korean car maker Hyundai (OTCMKTS: HYMTF) is investing in Allegro.ai, ...
VMware Buys Kubernetes Startup Heptio
November 6th, 2018
There has been much talk with the rise of application containers about the microservices technology replacing virtual machines. VMware made a move this week that may make that a moot point. The company announced on Tuesday (Nov. 6) it ...
Kubernetes Packager Secures Cloud-Native Apps
November 2nd, 2018
An open source version of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator is intended to package and deploy cloud-native applications to restricted, on-premise infrastructure such as government clouds. Gravitational, which was founded by Rackspace veterans in 2015, said its aptly named Gravity ...
Inference Engine Uses SRAM to Edge AI Apps
November 1st, 2018
Flex Logix, the embedded FPGA specialist, has shifted gears by applying its proprietary interconnect technology to launch an inference engine that boosts neural inferencing capacity at the network edge while reducing DRAM bandwidth requirements. Instead, the inferencing engine draws ...
Qualys Boosts Container Security with SecOps Deal
October 31st, 2018
As native cloud applications expand across companies large and in between, greater attention is being paid to securing the ephemeral application containers increasingly used to deliver distributed apps. Cloud security vendors are now attempting to scale those efforts in ...
IBM Jolts Cloud Market with Red Hat Deal
October 28th, 2018
In a bold stroke that promises to shake up the hybrid cloud market, IBM is acquiring open source leader Red Hat. "The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer,” asserted IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said in announcing the acquisition. ...
Check Point, Cloud Security Vendor, Acquires Dome9
October 25th, 2018
Dome9, the public cloud security specialist, has been acquired by another Israel-based cybersecurity vendor, Check Point Software. Check Point, Tel Aviv, said Wednesday (Oct. 24) its acquisition of Dome9 would bolster its Infinity security architecture by adding multi-cloud security ...
NSF Funds Cybersecurity, Trusted AI Research
October 24th, 2018
The National Science Foundation will fund a broad range of cybersecurity, data privacy and network security research projects that includes a new Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning. NSF’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace initiative will support 225 cyber and network ...
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