DoD’s Early Warning System Targets New Enemy: COVID-19
Artificial intelligence technology has been enlisted in a Defense Department research effort to develop an early warning system for identifying infectious diseases. Recent COVID-19 outbreaks in the confined quarters ...Full Article
AI Developers Adjust to ‘New Normal’
The pandemic has shifted the focus of disrupted enterprise AI and machine learning projects from financial analysis and consumer insight to cost cutting and customer engagement, according to a ...Full Article
Kubernetes Adopters Ramp DevSecOps
The faster Kubernetes deployments are scaled, the bigger a target they become for hackers probing for security vulnerabilities. With security incidents rising sharply, Kubernetes-native container security platform vendor StackRox ...Full Article
PagerDuty Acquires DevOps Automator Rundeck
PagerDuty Inc., the operations management specialist, is acquiring enterprise DevOps startup RunDeck in a cash-stock transaction valued at $100 million. San Francisco-based PagerDuty said Monday (Sept. 21) the acquisition ...Full Article
List of Kubernetes Tools, Defenses Grows
Container tools and security fixes for Kubernetes cluster orchestrator continued to be rolled out as the microservices ecosystem evolves. With Kubernetes security concerns growing as deployments scale, container security ...Full Article
Google, HCL Expand Cloud Migration Partnership
Google Cloud and HCL Technologies are expanding their partnership to integrate the Indian company’s hybrid cloud data warehouse into the search giant’s public cloud platform. The expanded partnership brings ...Full Article
Pure Storage Acquires Portworx and its Kubernetes Services
Technology merger season is upon us, with Pure Storage announcing mid-week it is acquiring Kubernetes data services specialist Portworx. In the wake of Nvidia’s blockbuster deal for Arm Ltd., ...Full Article
Reports: Nvidia Deal for Arm Advances
Update: Sunday, Sept. 13 at 8pm ET, Arm and Nvidia announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank in a transaction valued at $40 ...Full Article
AI Struggles to Outperform Diagnosticians
Among the most promising medical applications for artificial intelligence is image recognition as a diagnostic tool. AI algorithms are approaching the capabilities of radiologists, and groups like the American ...Full Article
Edge Computing Seen Transitioning to ‘Intelligent Edge’
The extension of cloud computing capabilities from datacenters to the somewhat amorphous network edge, variously defined as a connected device, appliance or a network gateway, is morphing into something ...Full Article