Virtual Net Guides Containers Across Multiple Clouds
The latest release of a network virtualization overlay is designed to connect multiple OpenStack cloud implementations while providing a software-defined networking (SDN) approach to emerging container orchestration engines making ...Full Article
Intel to Acquire AI Startup Nervana Systems
If we needed another sign that Intel is serious about mining AI market opportunities, it came today when the chip company announced it had inked a “definitive agreement” to acquire ...Full Article
5 Big Trends Driving the Rush to the Cloud
Recent cloud statistics and predictions report that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow from $70 billion in 2015 to more than $141 billion in 2019. Those numbers ...Full Article
Taking Aim at Retail’s $40B Annual Non-Scanning Losses
By hook, crook, negligence or equipment malfunction, $40 billion worth of goods pass through checkout lanes at retail stores around the world each year without being scanned. Be it ...Full Article
Dubai Police Use Real-time Image Processing in Traffic to Track Down Scofflaws, Terrorists
When people drive, their cars identify who they are. Or who they might be. This includes people “of interest” to police: drivers with expired licenses or unpaid fines, with ...Full Article
The Open Source World of Today: How We Got Here
Is the closed-source system on its last legs? Maybe not just yet, but we’re pretty close to it. Consider the phenomenal growth in the last five years of new ...Full Article
Mesosphere Touts ‘Container 2.0’
In a bid to jumpstart what it calls a "Container 2.0" movement, application container pioneer Mesosphere announced partnerships with big data vendors designed to push distributed application technology to ...Full Article
Crowd-sourcing Algorithms to Beat Wall Street
Looking to cash in on your algorithm expertise? Join the crowd. A three-year-old hedge fund investment company, Quantopian, which crowd-sources algorithms to guide its investing, has just received an ...Full Article
Study: Corporate-“Shadow” IT Gap Puts Cloud-based Data in Peril
As corporate data – much of it sensitive – flies to the cloud in growing volume, a serious disconnect between corporate and “shadow” IT has developed in recent years, ...Full Article
The Third Age of Data and the Unfolding Scale-out World
Welcome to the Third Age of Data, where an estimated 1 trillion sensors are embedded in a nearly limitless landscape of networked sources, from health monitoring devices to municipal ...Full Article
