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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).Machine Learning Leveraged to Spot Ransomware
June 15th, 2016 Comments Off on Machine Learning Leveraged to Spot Ransomware
Everyone seemingly is complaining about the spread of ransomware, and now somebody is trying to do something about it using machine learning-based behavioral analytics techniques to track suspicious behavior on company networks. As the scale of the ransomware threat ...
Storage Software Comes Packaged in App Containers
June 14th, 2016 Comments Off on Storage Software Comes Packaged in App Containers
Server software released this week by storage vendor Scality comes packaged in a Docker application container to speed deployment of cloud-native applications by eliminating the need to decide ahead of time where applications are deployed in production. That means ...
VMware Bolsters Net Virtualization With Arkin Deal
June 13th, 2016 Comments Off on VMware Bolsters Net Virtualization With Arkin Deal
Looking to bolster its network virtualization and security platform targeting software-defined datacenters, VMware said it is acquiring SDDC security and operations specialist Arkin Net to help extend its vRealize suite to handle applications across computing, storage and datacenter networks. ...
Net Vendor Midokura Raises $20.4M
June 9th, 2016 Comments Off on Net Vendor Midokura Raises $20.4M
Software network virtualization specialist Midokura announced a $20.4 million funding round this week as uptake of its network virtualization platform gains momentum. The Series B funding round announced Wednesday (June 8) brings the networking startup's funding total to $44 ...
HPE Rolls Docker-Ready Servers, Backs ‘Docker Datacenter’
June 8th, 2016 Comments Off on HPE Rolls Docker-Ready Servers, Backs ‘Docker Datacenter’
Application container leader Docker's strategic alliance with Hewlett Packard Enterprise will deliver a new class of server that bundles the Docker Engine platform used to build and run containers. The partners said the alliance seeks to accelerate the spread ...
IBM Shifts Spark Development to its Cloud
June 7th, 2016 Comments Off on IBM Shifts Spark Development to its Cloud
IBM upped its investment in Apache Spark this week via a cloud-based development platform that would expand data science and developer access to various flavors of Spark, including a machine-learning version. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Tuesday (June 7) it ...
Facebook AI Effort Looks to Extend Search Engines
June 6th, 2016 Comments Off on Facebook AI Effort Looks to Extend Search Engines
Facebook is rolling out a "deep-learning based text understanding engine" that leverages neural network architectures and promises to challenge the Google search engine by bringing "near-human accuracy" to the process of sorting through the daily flood of social media ...
Puppet, CoreOS Roll New App Container Tools
June 3rd, 2016 Comments Off on Puppet, CoreOS Roll New App Container Tools
The expanding application container and micro-services infrastructure got another boost this week with the introduction of a new set of tools for managing distributed software used to orchestrate micro-services. Meanwhile, one of those software developers, CoreOS, announced a new ...
Few Bright Spots in Struggling Server Market
June 2nd, 2016 Comments Off on Few Bright Spots in Struggling Server Market
The global server market continued to slow during the first quarter of 2016 as revenues declined while shipments rose only modestly, indicating that average selling prices continue to slip. Meanwhile, hyper-scale datacenter deployments continue to spur modest increases in ...
Mesosphere Platform Adds Scheduler, Automation Tools
June 1st, 2016 Comments Off on Mesosphere Platform Adds Scheduler, Automation Tools
The Mesosphere, the datacenter operating system ecosystem formed by the company of the same name, continues to expand with the addition of a scheduler designed to determine whether workloads run best on-premise or in the cloud along with new ...