Two security companies born in the Czech Republic are back together with Avast’s $1.3 billion purchase of AVG.
Bloomberg reports that Avast is interested in using AVG’s technology to shore up its products for securing the internet of things, one of the most-referenced topics we’ve heard from people interested in participating in Structure Security.
GOOGLE’S DEEP MIND TO USE 1 MILLION NHS EYE SCANS TO SPOT DISEASES EARLIER Sure, Go was an entertaining challenge, but Google’s DeepMind unit has signed up for something far more significant with plans to analyze health records for signs of eye disease.
Ars Technica says the five-year research project involving eye scans conducted by a U.K. hospital will apply machine learning techniques in hopes of detecting diseases that cause vision loss before the damage is done.
HOW AWS CAME TO BE Techcrunch has a nice roundup of AWS CEO Andy Jassy’s recent appearance in Washington, DC, where he went into some detail recounting the origin story of Amazon Web Services. Some of this has been covered before, but it’s worth reading to understand why it takes some companies a long time to realize they’ve hit upon something transformational, and why some companies never translate that realization into a business.
INSIDE GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT’S RACE TO CATCH AMAZON IN THE CLOUD Speaking of AWS, its foresight has allowed it to dominate cloud computing to a huge degree, even ten years after it first launched.
Forbes has another one of those can-Google-catch-AWS? profiles that have been making the rounds since Diane Greene took day-to-day control of Google’s cloud strategy, but give it a click for the anecdotes and focus on the Big Three.
KUBERNETES 1.3 STEPS UP FOR HYBRID CLOUDS Google rolled out a new version of Kubernetes this week that
Light Reading believes will make it easier for users to deploy containers across a variety of clouds. The container-management battles of the next couple of years should be very interesting as Docker rolls out its own container management product and more and more companies embrace the lightweight software development strategy.
DREAMING OF 100 EXAFLOPS IN 2030 The Next Platform has another dispatch from this year’s International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, and this one focused on the scaling challenges that will face the enterprise computing industry as it continues to grow. Intel’s Al Gara focused on how memory and interconnects will have to bear as much of this load as the CPU, and how some fundamental engineering will have to take place to make these breakthroughs.
