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).

Latency Needs Driving an Edge Server Boom

July 28th, 2020 Comments Off

The conventional wisdom holds that Internet of Things and data analytics applications are driving the steady shift of server deployments to the networks. Certainly, the overriding requirement is placing processing horsepower closer to edge devices and end users. It ...

Lightbits Links Kubernetes to Persistent Storage via NVMe

July 24th, 2020 Comments Off

Lightbits Labs, the “originator” of NVM Express over TCP block storage, said the latest version of its LightOS platform integrates cloud-native persistent storage for Kubernetes. The result is said to be improved scaling and availability via clustering. San Jose-based ...

Software Sector Among Tech Leaders in Deals, Funding

July 23rd, 2020 Comments Off

Software industry mergers and acquisitions reached $3 billion during the second quarter of 2020, driven in part by the shift to cloud computing and cloud-native applications along with the need for heightened cybersecurity. Those trends were also reflected in ...

U.S. AI Corps Seeks to Keep Pace with China

July 22nd, 2020 Comments Off

A proposed U.S. Digital Service Academy would create an AI software repository to support R&D while training the next generation of AI developers. According to recommendations released this week by a government commission, the proposed coding academy seeks to ...

IBM, Oracle Unveil Multi-Cloud Deployment Options

July 21st, 2020 Comments Off

Public cloud contenders hustling to keep pace with market leaders continue to differentiate their offerings with the rollout of new services spanning hybrid cloud deployments to network orchestration schemes. For example, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its Red Hat unit ...

After Pause, AI Software Market Expected to Soar

July 20th, 2020 Comments Off

The upward advance of the global AI software market is forecast to rise between its current $16.4 billion level to as high as nearly $100 billion by 2025 as industry sectors like health care step up their rate of ...

Palantir, Rackspace Lead a Wave of Tech IPOs

July 17th, 2020 Comments Off

Cloud and software vendors of various stripes and high-flying big data analytics provider Palantir Technologies have gauged financial market sentiments and decided now is the time to launch initial stock offerings. For Palantir, which has been racking up a ...

Survey: AI Risks Grow Along with Adoption

July 16th, 2020 Comments Off

More than half of early AI adopters said they have invested more than $20 million on AI technologies and talent during the past year as they seek to harness machine automation to differentiate their services and create new products. ...

IBM, Verizon Team on 5G for IoT

July 16th, 2020 Comments Off

Responding to what they say is a wave of pandemic-driven automation, IBM and Verizon have announced an Internet of Things partnership that combines IBM’s AI, hybrid cloud and asset management tools with the wireless carrier’s 5G and edge computing ...

AI Ethics Panel Solicits Public Comments

July 15th, 2020 Comments Off

An international effort to promote ethical AI development is gaining momentum with the launch of an online forum where participants can contribute to a United Nations’ effort to global standards for developing ethical AI applications. The U.N. Education, Scientific ...