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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).Tech Sector Frets Over U.S. Export Controls
May 20th, 2019 Comments Off on Tech Sector Frets Over U.S. Export Controls
As regulators prepare to tighten U.S. export controls with an eye toward restricting technology transfers to China, industry groups are pushing back, arguing that overly restrictive rules would cost U.S. industry hundreds of billions in export sales. Trade groups ...
Microsoft Transfers Vector Search To GitHub
May 17th, 2019 Comments Off on Microsoft Transfers Vector Search To GitHub
Since acquiring GitHub in June 2018, Microsoft has sought to make good on its pledge to retain the project collaboration platform’s “developer-first ethos.” This week it turned over to GitHub an AI search tool as an open-source project. The vector ...
Net Appliances Emerge to Handle Data Deluge
May 16th, 2019 Comments Off on Net Appliances Emerge to Handle Data Deluge
Network infrastructure has had a hard time keeping up with the data explosion and surging demand for real-time capabilities as everything but the kitchen sink is networked. Incremental progress has been made via open and virtual networking efforts that ...
VMware Boosts Multi-Cloud Push with Bitnami Deal
May 15th, 2019 Comments Off on VMware Boosts Multi-Cloud Push with Bitnami Deal
VMware continues its push into micro-services for multi-cloud deployments with its acquisition of Bitnami, a provider of server applications and development tools running virtually or hosted in the cloud. The deal for Bitnami announced Wednesday (May 15) follows VMware’s ...
Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
May 14th, 2019 Comments Off on Deep Learning Competitors Stalk Nvidia
There is no shortage of processing architectures emerging to accelerate deep learning workloads, with two more options emerging this week to challenge GPU leader Nvidia. First, Intel researchers claimed a new deep learning record for image classification on the ...
NSF Gets Pushback on AI Ethics Research
May 10th, 2019 Comments Off on NSF Gets Pushback on AI Ethics Research
The National Science Foundation is taking some heat for collaborating with Amazon to fund research on AI fairness. With proposals due at the end of June (“letters of intent” were due on May 10), critics are warning that AI ...
SAP HANA Gets a Cloud Boost
May 10th, 2019 Comments Off on SAP HANA Gets a Cloud Boost
SAP continues to push its flagship HANA in-memory database platform higher into the cloud with a range of new analytics, cloud storage, AI and robotic process automation features aimed down-market beyond big companies and “complex scenarios.” As SAP (NYSE: ...
Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift
May 8th, 2019 Comments Off on Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift
Cloud infrastructure providers targeting the booming hybrid cloud market continue to coalesce around the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator that serves as a bridge between datacenters and public clouds for applications such as databases. For example, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Red ...
RHEL 8 Aimed at Hybrid Cloud Deployments
May 7th, 2019 Comments Off on RHEL 8 Aimed at Hybrid Cloud Deployments
The Linux operating system continues to evolve as more enterprise users shift their IT operations to hybrid and multiple cloud deployments while seeking a single OS capable of handling a variety of workloads. That’s the pitch made by Red ...
NVMe Fabrics Enter Express Lane
May 6th, 2019 Comments Off on NVMe Fabrics Enter Express Lane
As the volume and velocity of data grows exponentially, storage vendors are increasingly promoting NVM Express as a device interface for accessing non-volatile storage media. Enterprise storage vendors such as Western Digital describe the challenge this way: transforming the ...