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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).Google, IBM Partner to Tighten Container Security
October 13th, 2017 Comments Off on Google, IBM Partner to Tighten Container Security
Among the ways proposed to secure application containers and micro-services as they proliferate in datacenters is more rigorous oversight of the software supply chain. With those security considerations in mind, Google, IBM and a host of infrastructure partners said ...
AWS, Microsoft Team on ‘Open AI’
October 12th, 2017 Comments Off on AWS, Microsoft Team on ‘Open AI’
Cloud services rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are collaborating on a deep learning library designed to accelerate development of models used to construct neural networks. The open source project dubbed "Gluon" would deliver an API that leverages a ...
Autonomous Trucks Demo Uses Nvidia AI Platform
October 11th, 2017 Comments Off on Autonomous Trucks Demo Uses Nvidia AI Platform
A test fleet of autonomous delivery trucks scheduled for deployment next year will be outfitted with self-driving system based on Nvidia's AI processing technology for autonomous vehicles. The AI car computer called Drive PX will be combined with German ...
SAP Upgrades AI Platform With Volta GPUs
October 10th, 2017 Comments Off on SAP Upgrades AI Platform With Volta GPUs
Building on collaboration announced earlier this year, SAP said this week it would incorporate Nvidia's AI platform based on the graphics processing specialist's Volta architecture into its machine-learning portfolio. The upgrade to SAP's Leonardo machine learning suite includes the ...
AWS Cloud Hacked by Bitcoin Miners
October 9th, 2017 (2)
Bitcoin mining is among the latest threats to public cloud security as hackers breach enterprise computing resources to hunt for the digital currency. Cloud security vendor RedLock reported earlier this month that hackers were using Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: ...
Google Brings ‘Nested’ VMs to Cloud
October 6th, 2017 Comments Off on Google Brings ‘Nested’ VMs to Cloud
Google Cloud Platform now supports nested virtualization, a feature that allows enterprise users to run multiple virtual machines inside a Linux VM—or as Google describes it, "VMs inside of VMs." The cloud upgrade is aimed at enterprise users who ...
Red Hat Rolls ‘Container-Native’ Storage
October 5th, 2017 Comments Off on Red Hat Rolls ‘Container-Native’ Storage
Cloud-native applications being delivered via application containers now have the option of using what open-source leader Red Hat calls "container-native" storage integrated with the latest version of its RedShift container platform. Red Hat released an update to its container ...
FogHorn Pushes Machine Learning Into Industrial IoT
October 4th, 2017 Comments Off on FogHorn Pushes Machine Learning Into Industrial IoT
As the industrial sector continues to spearhead Internet of Things deployments, investors are targeting analytics and machine learning startups focused on applications like predictive maintenance and streamlining business processes. Among the latest investees is FogHorn Systems, a developer of ...
Oracle Joins Shift to Cloud GPUs
October 3rd, 2017 Comments Off on Oracle Joins Shift to Cloud GPUs
Public cloud vendors continue to add processing horsepower in the form of Nvidia GPU accelerators and the graphics processor vendor's Tesla datacenter GPUs. Oracle announced this week it is adding Nvidia's Tesla GPUs to its public cloud a month ...
Google Upgrades Cloud Access Controls
October 3rd, 2017 Comments Off on Google Upgrades Cloud Access Controls
Public cloud vendors continue to roll out tweaks and other new features designed to differentiate their services. Among them are tools designed to give enterprise users greater control over cloud services as more applications and data are moved there. ...