Futureworld: The Indoor ‘Vertical Farm’ Driven by IoT and Machine Learning
Imagine a farm without herbicides, insecticides or pesticides; a farm that cuts water consumption by 95 percent; that uses no fertilizer and thus generates no polluting run-off; that has ...Full Article
Cisco, Google Join Forces on Hybrid Cloud
Cisco Systems and Google announced a hybrid cloud partnership this week designed to securely deliver distributed enterprise applications and services across Google Cloud Platform and on-premise infrastructure. The partners ...Full Article
Cray+Azure: Can Cloud Propel Supercomputing?
Cray, which has been seeking new points of entry for its supercomputing technology into the cloud enterprise arena, has struck a partnership with Microsoft and its enormous Azure customer ...Full Article
DoD Looks to Break Cloud Security ‘Bottleneck’
The Pentagon is looking for ways to recast is its cloud security guidelines as a way to accelerate the department's slow migration to cloud computing. Meanwhile, key cloud providers ...Full Article
Latest DevOps Survey Finds Enterprise Gains
DevOps, the intersection of software development, IT operations and quality assurance, is gaining adherents as enterprises look for tools and practices for speeding the delivery of applications and services ...Full Article
Docker Adds Kubernetes Support
The long-running (by enterprise IT standards) competition between the Google-backed Kubernetes container orchestrator and Docker's Swarm appears to have a winner: Docker announced this week the enterprise edition of ...Full Article
Survey: Equifax Hack Highlights Open Source Insecurity
With open source software accounting for more than half of some products, process gaps are emerging for managing security. Vendors pushing approaches for monitoring software supply chains point to ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
AWS Cloud Hacked by Bitcoin Miners
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 ...Full Article