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).

Kubernetes Momentum Builds With New AWS Tools

November 30th, 2017 Comments Off

Amazon Web Services has rolled out new application container tools designed to run containers without having to manage infrastructure along with a managed Kubernetes container orchestration capability. Both run on the Amazon Elastic Container Service. The cloud giant unveiled ...

Amazon, Intel Collaborate on Deep Learning

November 29th, 2017 Comments Off

Amazon Web Services and Intel have collaborated on a wireless video camera intended to serve as a development tool for new AI and machine learning applications. The public cloud giant and chipmaker unveiled their programmable "DeepLens" camera during this ...

Tech Giants Adopt ‘Balanced’ Licensing Approach

November 28th, 2017 Comments Off

Some of the largest stakeholders in the booming open-source software community have issued new licensing guidelines for developers designed to thwart aggressive or unfounded enforcement of intellectual property claims while reducing uncertainty over compliance. Open source leader Red Hat ...

Silicon Photonics Emerging to Meet Bandwidth Demand

November 27th, 2017 Comments Off

Hyper-scale datacenters and high-bandwidth, high-data-rate telecommunications applications are expected to drive demand for silicon optics technology that integrates fiber optics with CMOS chip manufacturing and three-dimensional chip stacking, a market research concludes. Along with the expansion of datacenter capacity ...

Turnaround Complete, HPE’s Whitman Departs

November 22nd, 2017 Comments Off

Having turned around the aircraft carrier the Silicon Valley icon had become, Meg Whitman is leaving the helm of a restructured Hewlett Packard. Her successor, technologist Antonio Neri will now guide what Whitman asserts is a more "nimble" company ...

AWS Adds ‘Secret’ Region to CIA Cloud

November 21st, 2017 Comments Off

Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services announced a new "secret region" this week designed to complete its portfolio of data classifications for U.S. government workloads. AWS said Monday (Nov. 20) that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies and government contractors with ...

Rolling Thunder Forecast for Booming Cloud Market

November 17th, 2017 Comments Off

There is a broad consensus among industry analysts and the vendors they track that enterprise adoption of cloud services is booming. The only variable is the expected rate of growth. Year-end estimates are trickling in, and market watchers note ...

Facebook Unleashes Open/R Networking Software

November 16th, 2017 Comments Off

Facebook's network routing software is now available as an open source tool for developing new network applications and functions, the company announced this week. Open/R is currently used in Facebook's datacenter and backbone networks to support wide-area networks, datacenter ...

‘AI Layer’ Seeks to Fill Machine Learning Gaps

November 16th, 2017 (1)

It has been asserted that the algorithm has overtaken traditional software code as the driving force behind the AI Era. On the assumption that assertion is accurate, startups are beginning to offer tools for building what one refers to ...

Multi-Cloud Begets Confusion, Calls for Automation

November 15th, 2017 Comments Off

The embrace of multiple public cloud providers as a way of avoiding vendor lock-in and manage costs has added another layer of complexity to the management of IT infrastructure already calibrated to a fine edge. That has created an ...