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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).COVID Hurts Overall IT Spending, Cloud Benefits
June 3rd, 2020 Comments Off on COVID Hurts Overall IT Spending, Cloud Benefits
The pandemic was expected to slow global IT spending. The only questions being by how much and for how long. Hard numbers for the beginning of this year are coming in, with declines from a year ago approaching double ...
Dell Integrates Bitfusion for vHPC, GPU ‘Pools’
June 2nd, 2020 Comments Off on Dell Integrates Bitfusion for vHPC, GPU ‘Pools’
Dell Technologies advanced its hardware virtualization strategy to AI workloads this week with the introduction of capabilities aimed at expanding access to GPU and HPC services via its EMC, VMware and recently acquired Bitfusion units. The result would be ...
New Chip Approaches Seek to Keep Up with AI
June 1st, 2020 Comments Off on New Chip Approaches Seek to Keep Up with AI
Exploding data sets and complex software have made it harder for single-purpose platforms like ASICs to keep up with the growing demands of enterprise datacenters. Heavy investments in chip design and development therefore run the risk of obsolescence by ...
Zscaler Acquires Network Security Startup
May 29th, 2020 Comments Off on Zscaler Acquires Network Security Startup
Zscaler Inc. is doubling down in its drive to dominate the market for “zero trust” security frameworks with its second acquisition in about six weeks. The cloud security specialist said Thursday (May 28) it is acquiring Edgewise Networks, a ...
DARPA Moves to Secure Chip Designs
May 28th, 2020 Comments Off on DARPA Moves to Secure Chip Designs
The U.S. military is ramping up efforts to secure semiconductors and its electronics supply chain by embedding defenses during the chip design phase. The automation effort also addresses the high cost and complexity of securing hardware development along with ...
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Attracting Hackers
May 27th, 2020 Comments Off on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Attracting Hackers
As contact tracing ramps up for exposure to COVID-19, so too are concerns about data privacy and whether phony tracing apps will expand opportunities for attackers preying on citizens who voluntarily use tracing apps to help fight the spread ...
Bulging Datacenters Fuel Ethernet Adapter Growth
May 20th, 2020 Comments Off on Bulging Datacenters Fuel Ethernet Adapter Growth
All those huge data sets swirling around datacenters for running more AI and machine learning workloads are proving to be a boon for network adaptor equipment vendors. For example, the Ethernet adapter market reached $1.7 billion in 2019, marking ...
Holistic Data Used to Track AI Bias
May 19th, 2020 Comments Off on Holistic Data Used to Track AI Bias
Bias creeps into AI models as they are trained. Hence, experts warn that data sets and model training techniques must to be cleansed of bias at each step in the process. Among the tools promoted to eliminate bias are ...
VMware Engine Extends Google’s Hybrid Push
May 15th, 2020 Comments Off on VMware Engine Extends Google’s Hybrid Push
Google continues to expand its hybrid cloud partnership with VMware designed to ease migration of enterprise workloads to the cloud while preserving existing infrastructure. Google Cloud this week unveiled additional support for migrating and running virtualized workloads in the ...
Nvidia Expands Healthcare Platform to Combat COVID
May 14th, 2020 Comments Off on Nvidia Expands Healthcare Platform to Combat COVID
A new set of AI models released by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in collaboration with Nvidia is designed to help clinicians detect and examine novel coronavirus infections using chest CT scan data. The AI models are ...