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).

Investors Continue to Bank on Cloud Manager Rubrik

January 15th, 2019 Comments Off

Tech company valuations and private equity funding rounds continue to soar as data become the keys to the realm and greater volumes are managed in the cloud. The latest example comes from cloud data manager Rubrik, which this week ...

Baidu’s Edge Platform for AI Development

January 11th, 2019 Comments Off

Platform vendors are increasingly focused on computing at the network edge as those devices sweep up more unstructured data. The goal is to move computing resources closer to data sources to reduce latency and bandwidth usage. The latest example ...

Cloud Transition Begets Cloud Waste

January 10th, 2019 Comments Off

The more companies spend on cloud resources, the greater the likelihood those investments will be wasted on excess and therefore idle capacity along with the overprovisioning of infrastructure services, according to cloud optimization study. The analysis by cloud resource ...

Patent Awards Slow, But Applications Rise

January 8th, 2019 Comments Off

The broad category of data processing continued to generate the lion’s share of intellectual property claims in 2018, despite and overall decline in the number of U.S. patents last year, according to an annual survey. Patent tracker IFI CLAIMS ...

Struggling IBM Uses CES to Reinvent Itself

January 4th, 2019 Comments Off

Among the featured speakers at the largest consumer electronics show next week in Las Vegas is the CEO of a a major enterprise IT vendor not generally associated with the whizzy world of gadgetry: Ginni Rometty, who also serves ...

AI Chip Startup Graphcore Rings Up $200M in Funding

December 20th, 2018 Comments Off

Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, has attracted more investors as it rolls out its intelligent processing unit to enterprise datacenters and cloud services providers. The GPU rival reported this week it has closed a $200 million funding round ...

Cumulus Networks Partners with Datacenter Switcher

December 19th, 2018 Comments Off

The unclogging of datacenter networks is taking a decidedly open approach that is permeating down to the level of network operating systems and high-capacity optical switches. The latest example of this trend is a deal between networking software specialist ...

Oracle Lawsuit Clouds DoD’s IT Strategy

December 18th, 2018 (1)

Just in time for the holidays, cloud rivals are fighting like cats and dogs over one of the biggest ever federal IT contracts. The battle lines for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract shifted to federal court with Oracle’s ...

Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds

December 17th, 2018 Comments Off

The majority of enterprise applications are developed and deployed in the cloud, concludes a semi-annual survey on cloud adoption. Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are developing at least 60 percent of ...

IBM Seeks Transparency into AI Decision Making

December 14th, 2018 Comments Off

Among the stumbling blocks to AI adoption is lack of transparency, understanding, and therefore trust in how machines actually make decisions. How and why AI arrived at an answer or recommendation is something that, as of today, machine learning ...