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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).Huawei, MapD Join Forces on GPU-Based Servers
August 11th, 2017 Comments Off on Huawei, MapD Join Forces on GPU-Based Servers
Data analytics and visualization specialist MapD Technologies has inked a deal with Huawei, the multinational networking and telecommunications giant, to juice the Chinese vendor's server hardware with scalable GPU-supported analytics. The partners announced an agreement this week intended to ...
Intel Moves on Blockchain, Self-Driving Cars
August 10th, 2017 Comments Off on Intel Moves on Blockchain, Self-Driving Cars
Chip giant Intel Corp. continues to diversify beyond its x86 roots into emerging markets ranging from autonomous vehicles to blockchain technology. It announced initiatives this week covering both, including a partnership with Microsoft to provide hardware and joint software ...
Data Among Keys to Industrial IoT Success
August 9th, 2017 Comments Off on Data Among Keys to Industrial IoT Success
Among the first sectors likely to cash in on the Internet of Things is industrial, which has been in the vanguard of networking the factory floor to achieve efficiencies while collecting and leveraging all the data generated by connected ...
U.S. Expands Cyber Training Effort
August 8th, 2017 (1)
In order to secure enterprise networks and their far-flung components, everyone needs to be on the same page. That's at least part of the thinking behind a renewed U.S. cyber initiative designed to bring embattled security teams up to ...
Senate Bill Seeks to Boost IoT Security
August 7th, 2017 Comments Off on Senate Bill Seeks to Boost IoT Security
Responding to a rash of malware attacks on early and vulnerable Internet of Things devices, lawmakers have stepped forward with a proposal to improve weak IoT cyber-security. While attempts at legislating technical specs don't always pan out, four U.S. ...
Advice to AI Startups: Lift Veil on Algorithms
August 3rd, 2017 Comments Off on Advice to AI Startups: Lift Veil on Algorithms
The hardheaded folks who advise investors on what technologies show promise and which are mostly smoke and mirrors are beginning to weigh in on much-hyped approaches such as machine learning. While venture capital keeps flowing into machine learning startups, ...
Low-Code Platforms Seen Gaining Traction
August 2nd, 2017 Comments Off on Low-Code Platforms Seen Gaining Traction
The low-code approach to enterprise software development is gathering momentum as companies leverage the platforms for cloud and other digital initiatives along with process automation, according to an industry report. Forrester Consulting forecasts in a survey commissioned by low-code ...
Red Hat Buys Storage Specialist
August 1st, 2017 Comments Off on Red Hat Buys Storage Specialist
Open source leader Red Hat continued its buying spree with the acquisition of a data compression software specialist focused on cloud storage. Red Hat said this week its acquisition of Permabit Technology Corp. would add data deduplication and compression ...
Early Blockchain Rollouts Expose Interoperability Issues
July 31st, 2017 Comments Off on Early Blockchain Rollouts Expose Interoperability Issues
Blockchain technology is making inroads in the enterprise, especially among banks and financial services firms handling heavy transaction volumes that require the back-and-forth of much transmitted payment information. While nearly six in 10 companies responding to a recent survey ...
Tricentis Acquires Load Testing Startup
July 28th, 2017 Comments Off on Tricentis Acquires Load Testing Startup
Given the amount of buggy software out there and shrinking software release timelines, demand is growing for automation tools used for continuous testing of software. That requirement may be reaching a tipping point as established players in the DevOps ...