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).

Security Threats Soar Along with Data Volumes

March 23rd, 2020 Comments Off

Lost data are costing organizations on average $1 million per month as data volumes soar and protecting stored data grows harder with the emergence of edge infrastructure handling AI and machine learning platforms. Surging data loss and related costs ...

Rising AI Adoption Prompts Risk Assessments

March 19th, 2020 Comments Off

Adopters of AI in the enterprise are focusing on specific production workloads centered around supervised and deep learning while the number of organizations using AI in production or evaluating the technology jumped to 85 percent of companies polled in ...

Red Hat, Intel Move to Certify Cloud Networks

March 18th, 2020 Comments Off

A certification process unveiled by Red Hat and Intel Corp. provides a cloud-based testbed for network operations supporting both virtual network functions as well as those increasingly delivered via application containers. The partners said this week the certification effort ...

Security Scanner Targets Container Image Registries

March 16th, 2020 Comments Off

Lingering vulnerabilities within cloud-native platforms built around Kubernetes orchestrator deployments are spawning new security tools for scanning image registries, among the most vulnerable components of application container infrastructure. Aqua Security released an open source tool this week for scanning ...

DoD Will Revisit JEDI Cloud Contract

March 13th, 2020 Comments Off

The Pentagon will reboot its department-wide cloud contract after a federal judge refereeing a protest filed by Amazon Web Services indicated the cloud giant was likely to succeed in making its case on technical and legal grounds. The Defense ...

Open Source Push Highlights Security Flaws

March 12th, 2020 Comments Off

As enterprise adoption of open source software soars, so too do the number of vulnerabilities inevitably exposed as deployments scale and security awareness grows in response to high-profile data breaches. An audit of security advisories, vulnerability databases and other ...

IBM Adds NLP Tools to Watson AI

March 11th, 2020 Comments Off

IBM has upgraded its Watson AI platform to boost the ability to understand business lingo that could be used to analyze the English language text and conversations. The natural language processing capability represents the first commercialization of IBM Research’s ...

NetApp Eyes Unstructured Data with Storage Deal

March 9th, 2020 Comments Off

As companies consolidate storage infrastructure in public clouds, market consolidation among storage vendors continues apace as vendors offer expanded offerings designed to boost cloud access to growing data volumes. The latest example is NetApp’s (NASDAQ: NTAP) deal announced on Monday ...

Nvidia Buys Object Storage Vendor SwiftStack

March 6th, 2020 Comments Off

Nvidia is acquiring cloud data storage specialist SwiftStack, accelerating the consolidation of the object storage sector as AI applications developed by Nvidia move between private and public clouds. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The GPU leader (NASDAQ: ...

Investors Flock to AI Chip Startups

March 5th, 2020 Comments Off

As the market for AI processors continues to expand, well-heeled chip startups are emerging to challenge market leaders like Nvidia. Among them is the Israeli startup, Hailo, which announced a $60 million funding round on Thursday (March 5) that ...