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 expand its machine vision and AI offerings. The partners said this week the combination of the ...Full article
Seeking to bullet-proof container infrastructure from application development through runtime protection for production workloads, a security vendor has rolled out the latest version of its platform targeting Kubernetes-native application delivery. Boston-based Aqua Security said this week the 3.0 version of its container security platform adds more than 100 security features, including a proprietary security architecture ...Full article
We often hear that technology is changing rapidly. We’ve heard this phrase for years – but in 2018, it really is. Today, almost everyone has a handheld tablet or mobile device (or two). In fact, two-thirds of Americans own one, according to a Pew Report. On top of that, organizations across the globe are living ...Full article
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and you’ve got nothing for your significant other. In a panic, you go to Amazon, pick a gift and check the delivery date. Good news! There’s two-day delivery, the gift will arrive by 8 p.m. on February 13. You hit “Complete Order” and draw a sigh of relief. ...Full article
Cloud adoption brings with it a paradox, a market analyst finds: Enterprises primarily embrace the cloud to reduce operating costs but end up spending more on inexpensive access to cloud computing and storage due to increased consumption and inevitable waste. “Reality doesn’t match expectations,” concludes a cloud adoption study released this week by 451 Research. ...Full article
Microsoft is releasing new cloud services as part of its public-sector push that would allow military and government users to share sensitive and classified data across internal and cloud platforms. The hybrid offering was among a list of new government services announced this week that also includes new platforms for handling sensitive workloads and the ...Full article
Coming out of stealth, a startup is out to overturn the CAE industry with a combination of AWS-based HPC capabilities and what it says is superior multi-physics design simulation software and a new, TCO-cutting “as-a-service” pricing model. According to Cupertino, CA-based OnScale, its CAE platform is the industry’s first Solver-as-a-Service offering, giving engineering teams pay-as-you-go ...Full article
NVMe has quickly become the storage medium of choice for high performance applications. Its streamlined protocol, optimized for transactions to flash memory, is very lightweight relative to the legacy storage protocols like ATA and SCSI. The manner in which NVMe leverages the PCIe bus also has the advantage of eliminating a translation layer between the ...Full article
The National Science Foundation has launched a partnership with VMware to advance edge computing infrastructure required for the Internet of Things (IoT). Separately this week, NSF unveiled a $30 million investment in computing and information sciences targeting advances in areas such as AI systems, quantum computing and biomedical imaging. The partnership with VMware (NYSE: VMW) ...Full article
Alibaba, the e-commerce giant from China, is taking a run at AWS in the global public cloud computing market with new offerings aimed at the surging demand for AI and HPC solutions among European enterprises. From Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain, Alibaba Cloud (aka AliCloud) launched new performance-oriented “bare metal” instances, which can be ...Full article
The rise of machine intelligence has prompted policy wonks to weigh in with a list of caveats along with recommendations for preserving the American technology lead in AI and machine learning while initiating the process of managing future risks. The respected Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report on Thursday (March 1) ...Full article
It wasn’t too long ago that AI was a futuristic concept, seen only in movies. Today, cognitive computing applications, such as machine learning and deep learning, are transforming industries across the globe. However, there is another set of technologies working silently behind-the-scenes to power AI applications: high performance computing (HPC). Before AI entered the scene, ...Full article
Seeking to capitalize on the growth of object storage and the reluctance of companies to delete data that could one day prove useful, cloud object storage specialist Cloudian has announced a partnership with an investment firm founded by a former Cisco System executive. Cloudian and investor Digital Alpha said the $125 million storage joint venture ...Full article
Algorithmia, the AI marketplace, has come up with a way of buying, selling and executing machine learning models on a blockchain platform, ushering in what it says is an “AI economy.” Separately, the Seattle-based platform vendor said Tuesday (Feb. 27) it is launching an AI and machine learning contract for developer bounties via a neural ...Full article
A wonderful week in Italy is coming to an end, and now it’s the heartbreak of leaving the life of the Med. But you're imbued with the spirit of la dolce vita. Italy has given you a new appreciation for life and people, for beauty, for relaxation, art and culture, for good food and wine, ...Full article
There was a simpler time when system tuning consisted of adjusting a relatively few number of knobs, a manual and not overly demanding task that brought out the best in systems performance. But now, as we move toward accelerated enterprise systems networked from data center to public cloud to mobile and sensored devices at the ...Full article
Amazon has long eschewed profits, preferring instead to plow capital expenditures into product innovation in sectors ranging from online retail to cloud computing. That aggressive strategy has made it a dominant online retailer and, according to at least one estimate, the largest public cloud provider, bigger than its next five largest competitors combined. The Seattle-based ...Full article
What if there were a cure for cancer, but the medical profession didn’t provide it? Or a plant that solves world food shortages, but farmers wouldn’t grow it? Or an unbreakable cipher for digital security, but the cryptography field didn’t use it? Not only is that unbreakable cipher real, it’s been around for more than ...Full article
While the genie may already be out of the bottle, the rapid growth and broad availability of AI and machine learning technology along with a growing list of development tools is prompting critics to highlight future security concerns and the need to consider upfront the potential for malicious use of the technology. A report released ...Full article
Processor specialist Arm is extending its push into the Internet of Things security market with a device authentication effort based on the cellular technology mainstay, the SIM card. Meanwhile, a batch of IoT device certification and network gateways also surfaced this week as IoT vendors shift their focus to securing the emerging device network. The ...Full article
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