China OK’s Nvidia Acquisition of Mellanox
With Chinese regulators issuing their approval, the final piece has fallen into place for Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of high performance interconnect provider Mellanox, announced in March 2019. The ...Full Article
Army Deploys AI for Battlefield of Things
Deep neural networks are being mustered by U.S. military researchers to marshal new technology forces on the Internet of Battlefield Things. U.S. Army and industry researchers said this week ...Full Article
IoT Goes to Sea—Via Satellite
A planned satellite network designed to help cargo ships chart courses through new shipping lanes full of melting sea ice is scheduled for launch in 2022. The new research ...Full Article
Kubernetes Everywhere: Rancher Labs’ ‘Lightweight’ Version Scales to the Edge
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 ...Full Article
Undeterred, VCs Bet on Cloud, Data Startups
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 ...Full Article
Red Hat, Intel Move to Certify Cloud Networks
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 ...Full Article
5G Rollouts Predicated on Security, Coverage
The rollout of 5G networks is gaining momentum for use cases like digital health services as potential early deployers gauge the security, reliability and reach of the next-generation of ...Full Article
Arm-based AI Inference Edge Server Takes on GPU Price/Performance
Edge computing specialist SolidRun and ASIC solutions company Gyrfalcon Technology this week announced an Arm-based AI inference edge server that the companies say outperforms GPU performance for less cost ...Full Article
‘Shadow IoT’ Undermining Network Security
The majority of Internet of Things transactions are unsecured, adding a new enterprise security threat as industrial and retail IoT traffic begins to ramp up. An enterprise IoT survey ...Full Article
Intel Updates 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable Chips and 5G Network Portfolio Products
Intel this morning announced an 18-SKU update to its second-generation Xeon Scalable chip lineup for data center workloads, stating that the refreshed Gold processor delivers an average of 1.36-times ...Full Article
