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).
Oracle Automates the Data Warehouse
March 28th, 2018
Oracle Corp. released the first of what it says will be a string of cloud platform services based on machine learning that are designed to differentiate the cloud upstart from public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN). Larry ...
Nvidia Pushes Deep Learning into Datacenters, IoT
March 27th, 2018
Nvidia upped the ante on GPU acceleration for deep learning with the latest release of inferencing engine that supports a range of machine intelligence applications running in datacenters as well as emerging automotive and robotics applications. Along with a ...
Digital Transformation: Strategic Imperative or Overrated?
March 22nd, 2018
It turns out the transition to zeroes and ones—the vaunted “digital transformation” many companies seek—isn’t going as smoothly as many vendors would have them think. Like most organizational changes, the embrace of digital technologies such as AI, blockchain or ...
Benchmark Survey: Cloud Performance Up, Prices Vary
March 21st, 2018
Public cloud offerings vary widely in terms of price and performance, but a cloud survey finds that overall performance is improving while prices among leading public cloud vendors continue to drop as they jockey to help enterprises shift to ...
The Firmware Stack Opens Up
March 20th, 2018
A batch of new open source efforts will among other things seek to unlock and define a firmware stack that would operate across enterprise infrastructure, cloud datacenters on up to HPC implementations. The Linux Foundation said this week its ...
Chip Makers Collaborate on NVMe Fabrics
March 19th, 2018
A trio of chip makers will collaborate on a reference architecture for speeding deployment of NVM Express over storage network fabrics. Cavium Technologies, which specializes in processors for cloud datacenters, announced the NVMe-over-fabrics collaboration with chip makers Marvell and ...
Evolving AI Debate Shifts to the Battlefield
March 15th, 2018
The accelerating pace of AI development continues to attract the attention of policy wonks who simultaneously view the technology as a strategic asset while worrying about unforeseen consequences of using the technology in war. The Washington-based Center for a ...
U.S. Circles Wagons on Foreign Tech Deals
March 13th, 2018
The seemingly inevitable consolidation of the global semiconductor industry, plagued as it is by overcapacity and an unending search for new markets, was slowed at least temporarily by a Republican administration that invoked national security as a reason for ...
Docker Founder Joins Blockchain Storage Startup
March 12th, 2018
Serial entrepreneur Ben Golub, co-founder and former CEO of application container pioneer Docker Inc., has landed at a blockchain-based cloud startup called Storj Labs. The Atlanta-based company launched in 2015 is attempting to ride the wave of decentralized infrastructure ...
Intel, Microsft Partner on Machine Vision, AI
March 9th, 2018
Intel and Microsoft are reuniting to support the chip maker’s vision processing unit on the software giant’s machine learning platform. The partners said the combination would allow AI inference at the network edge as Intel’s Movidius unit looks to ...
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