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).

Service Mesh Hub Backs Istio as Adoption Accelerates

April 8th, 2020 Comments Off

The list of open source service meshes, a low-latency infrastructure layer designed to link application containers and other microservices, continues to grow as ephemeral application infrastructure scales to production. The latest offering comes from Solo.io, which this week released ...

Kubernetes Tools Keep Coming

April 7th, 2020 Comments Off

The Kubernetes ecosystem continues to expand with the launch of a new open source project to develop tools for running and managing native workflows and applications on the de facto standard cluster orchestrator. Elsewhere, a cloud-based platform rolled out ...

HCI Deployments Fuel Booming Software-Defined Storage Market

April 6th, 2020 Comments Off

The sheer volume of unstructured data along with training and other data associated with AI and machine learning projects is fueling the shift by datacenters operators to software-defined storage (SDS) platforms better suited to processing tasks and retaining data. ...

Army Deploys AI for Battlefield of Things

April 3rd, 2020 Comments Off

Deep neural networks are being mustered by U.S. military researchers to marshal new technology forces on the Internet of Battlefield Things. U.S. Army and industry researchers said this week they have developed a “confidence metric” for assessing the reliability ...

IoT Goes to Sea—Via Satellite

April 2nd, 2020 Comments Off

A planned satellite network designed to help cargo ships chart courses through new shipping lanes full of melting sea ice is scheduled for launch in 2022. The new research project dubbed Maritime IoT will launch a constellation of 50 ...

Kubernetes Everywhere: Rancher Labs’ ‘Lightweight’ Version Scales to the Edge

March 31st, 2020 Comments Off

As enterprise distributions of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator stabilize, and more features are added with each quarterly version release, the expanding community of platform vendors are attempting to extend deployments of the de facto standard container manager beyond datacenters ...

Shift to AI Tools Doesn’t Guarantee Secure IT

March 30th, 2020 Comments Off

AI and machine learning tools enlisted to bolster the security of enterprise infrastructure are ubiquitous. Still, a vendor survey reveals a persistent gap between deployment and working knowledge about the capabilities of automated security tools. So far, the results ...

Kubernetes Gains Stability, New Features

March 27th, 2020 Comments Off

This year’s first update of the de facto standard Kubernetes cluster orchestrator includes 38 enhancements, of which nearly half have been declared “stable” features. Kubernetes 1.18 released this week is billed by maintainers as a “fit and finish” release ...

Undeterred, VCs Bet on Cloud, Data Startups

March 26th, 2020 Comments Off

If the global economy is to recover from a pandemic that has so far killed tens of thousands while disrupting supply chains and causing widespread unemployment, the technology sector must play a key role. Investors are beginning to put ...

SiFive Adds Tools for Cloud-Based Chip Design

March 25th, 2020 Comments Off

Chip designers are drawing on new cloud resources along with conventional electronic design automation (EDA) tools to accelerate IC templates from tape-out to custom silicon. Among the challengers to chip design leader Arm is SiFive. The IC design work-flow ...