Networking vendors are steadily adding new services to the emerging Istio service mesh used to link Kubernetes-based application components. That latest approach called a “universal service mesh” seeks to move beyond containers to include monolithic applications running on virtual machines and bare metal as well as micro-services infrastructure. Avi Networks this week unveiled new “gateway ...Full article
A security flaw discovered in the de facto standard Kubernetes cloud container orchestrator allowed unauthorized users access to Kubernetes clusters and the data they contain. The “privilege escalation vulnerability” announced Monday (Dec. 3) by developers affects versions 1.0 and higher of the Kubernetes orchestrator along with Red Hat OpenShift container platform. Red Hat rated the ...Full article
AI may be on the cusp of combating menaces of American life: mass shootings and terrorism. Two start-ups have technologies under development designed to spot bad actors, and bad cargo, before they can cause harm. Liberty Defense Technologies is combining radio frequency scanning with real time image processing to detect a gun, or guns, carried ...Full article
Docker is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to include an “application bundle” specification for packaging and running cloud-native applications. The collaboration coincides with the application container specialist’s release of a “desktop” for speeding deployment of distributed apps in production. The new Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) spec seeks to unify management of distributed applications using ...Full article
Pundits trumpet AI as the future for U.S. employment, but new research indicates AI's prevalence on the job is already here. How do we know? Because workers told us. Data based on a survey of U.S. workers in June indicates more than 32 percent are already exposed to some form of AI in their jobs. ...Full article
Better security and more speed – what else could we ask of serverless computing? At re:Invent this week, AWS launched a new take on virtual machines with a virtualization technology and open source project (under the Apache 2.0 license) for running multi-tenant container workloads. Called Firecracker, the offering is designed to combine the speed, resource ...Full article
Add high-performance computing to the ever-growing list of enterprise (fill-in-the-blank) as-a-service offerings. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) and HPC partner Advania Data Centers (ADC) have put their own spin on HPC-as-a-service with a hybrid approach that underpins an HPC cloud platform. The goal of the new HPC is “hybrid delivery to HPC users,” the partners ...Full article
Amid the gush of money and enthusiastic predictions being thrown at quantum computing comes a proposed cold shower in the form of an essay by physicist Mikhail Dyakonov published in IEEE Spectrum this month – "The Case Against Quantum Computing." Whatever your view of QC’s prospects, Dyakonov’s commentary is worth a read. Error correction – ...Full article
IBM and log data management startup LogDNA are collaborating on a new cloud service designed to help developers spot faults and debug code in data stored in the IBM cloud. Among the goals is reducing downtime and the resulting revenue loss. The partners said Thursday (Nov. 29) the collaboration would combine IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) log ...Full article
Is BeeGFS – the parallel file system with European roots – on a path to compete with Lustre and Spectrum Scale worldwide? Frank Herold’s unsurprising answer is yes. Herold is CEO of ThinkParQ, the company created in 2014 to commercialize BeeGFS. You may remember that BeeGFS got its start as an in-house project (2005) at ...Full article
Amazon Web Services poured forth a rolling tide of new product announcements today at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, an impressive portfolio of technologies that extend the cloud services giant’s reach and appeal across a range of advanced computing sectors. In a marathon presentation, AWS CEO Andy Jassy spoke almost without letup for three ...Full article
It is the best of times for networking equipment vendors, but it may be the worst of times for data-driven enterprises if they can’t figure out how to unclog network connections quickly backing up with unstructured data generated by devices, sensors and insatiable consumer demand for video and other emerging web applications. The estimates for ...Full article
AWS, a macrocosm of the emerging high-performance technology landscape, wants to be everywhere you want to be and offer everything you want to use (or at least try out). As such, the cloud computing services giant has furthered the spirit of technology disaggregation – processor diversity – with new Amazon Elastic Container Service (EC2) A1 ...Full article
With its acquisition by IBM not expected to close until the second half of 2019, Red Hat continues to snap up cloud startups as it builds its hybrid cloud management portfolio. On Tuesday (Nov. 27), Red Hat announced its acquisition of software startup NooBaa, which specializes in managing data storage services across hybrid and multi-cloud ...Full article
Video and rich media content is growing exponentially. Video now constitutes 50 percent of all data, and a rich media explosion is driving performance and capacity gains across countless markets. This content enhances the capabilities of businesses across the globe. So, what’s the issue? The lack of infrastructure and management tools for video and rich ...Full article
Add the Israeli startup Quantum Machines to the list of innovators pursuing the building blocks of the elusive computing architecture. The web site Techcrunch.com reported Wednesday (Nov. 21) that Tel Aviv-based Quantum Machines has raised $5.5 million in seed funding. The quantum startup’s web site lists Battery Ventures and TLV Partners as investors. Founded earlier this ...Full article
Food processing, beverage production, chemical manufacturing, water treatment, and other verticals in the process industry know that performance monitoring of industrial assets and processes plays a critical role. It’s all about monitoring the key parameters, predicting what’s going to happen next, and taking the right action to increase operational efficiency. Connected industrial assets generate pools ...Full article
Among the post-Moore’s Law chip architectures entering the test phase are neuromorphic chip designs that go beyond today’s CPUs and programmable logic chips to achieve near-term goals such as real-time learning and adaptive control. Intel Labs’ entry into the neuromorphic sweepstakes is a demonstrator dubbed Loihi, which was turned over to an industrial partner earlier ...Full article
A two-decade veteran of Oracle, Thomas Kurian, will replace Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene, an apparent casualty of public cloud services market competition in which AWS remains tenaciously dominant, even if Microsoft Azure is the faster growing of the two market leaders, with Google Cloud at 8 percent share, according to analyst group Canalys. Greene ...Full article
Last January, Thierry Pellegrino, a long-time Dell/Dell EMC veteran, became VP of HPC. His tenure comes at a time when the very definition of HPC is blurring with AI writ large (data analytics, machine learning, deep learning) clamoring for a place at the previously exclusively HPC table. Dell EMC is showcasing leading edge expertise and ...Full article
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