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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 Everywhere: Rancher Labs’ ‘Lightweight’ Version Scales to the Edge
March 31st, 2020 (0)
As enterprise distributions of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator stabilize, and more features are added with each quarterly version release, the expanding community of platform vendors are attempting to extend deployments of the de facto standard container manager beyond datacenters ...
Shift to AI Tools Doesn’t Guarantee Secure IT
March 30th, 2020 (0)
AI and machine learning tools enlisted to bolster the security of enterprise infrastructure are ubiquitous. Still, a vendor survey reveals a persistent gap between deployment and working knowledge about the capabilities of automated security tools. So far, the results ...
Kubernetes Gains Stability, New Features
March 27th, 2020 (0)
This year’s first update of the de facto standard Kubernetes cluster orchestrator includes 38 enhancements, of which nearly half have been declared “stable” features. Kubernetes 1.18 released this week is billed by maintainers as a “fit and finish” release ...
Undeterred, VCs Bet on Cloud, Data Startups
March 26th, 2020 (0)
If the global economy is to recover from a pandemic that has so far killed tens of thousands while disrupting supply chains and causing widespread unemployment, the technology sector must play a key role. Investors are beginning to put ...
SiFive Adds Tools for Cloud-Based Chip Design
March 25th, 2020 (0)
Chip designers are drawing on new cloud resources along with conventional electronic design automation (EDA) tools to accelerate IC templates from tape-out to custom silicon. Among the challengers to chip design leader Arm is SiFive. The IC design work-flow ...
Security Threats Soar Along with Data Volumes
March 23rd, 2020 (0)
Lost data are costing organizations on average $1 million per month as data volumes soar and protecting stored data grows harder with the emergence of edge infrastructure handling AI and machine learning platforms. Surging data loss and related costs ...
Rising AI Adoption Prompts Risk Assessments
March 19th, 2020 (0)
Adopters of AI in the enterprise are focusing on specific production workloads centered around supervised and deep learning while the number of organizations using AI in production or evaluating the technology jumped to 85 percent of companies polled in ...
Red Hat, Intel Move to Certify Cloud Networks
March 18th, 2020 (0)
A certification process unveiled by Red Hat and Intel Corp. provides a cloud-based testbed for network operations supporting both virtual network functions as well as those increasingly delivered via application containers. The partners said this week the certification effort ...
Security Scanner Targets Container Image Registries
March 16th, 2020 (0)
Lingering vulnerabilities within cloud-native platforms built around Kubernetes orchestrator deployments are spawning new security tools for scanning image registries, among the most vulnerable components of application container infrastructure. Aqua Security released an open source tool this week for scanning ...
DoD Will Revisit JEDI Cloud Contract
March 13th, 2020 (0)
The Pentagon will reboot its department-wide cloud contract after a federal judge refereeing a protest filed by Amazon Web Services indicated the cloud giant was likely to succeed in making its case on technical and legal grounds. The Defense ...