Software

• Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data will combine the data processing power of Palantir's Foundry software with the AI capabilities of IBM's Watson and Red Hat's OpenShift container platform to integrate and analyse vast amounts of varying data sets across hybrid clouds.
• With ACES trends massively increasing the importance of software, and despite potential increases in software productivity, demand for software engineers will likely increase three to four times by 2030.
• Verizon said its 5G and edge compute technologies, combined with incubed IT's software, will enable enterprise customers to gain new efficiencies and scale AMR fleets.
• Upon closing and as Verizon continues to expand its 5G coverage, capacity, and mobile edge compute capabilities, incubed IT's autonomous software will enable enterprise customers to gain new efficiencies as they scale their autonomous mobile robot fleets.
• A new software solution, Flight Data Link, provided by GE Digital and Teradata will provide blended enterprise and operations data in an aviation-specific data model.
• Colt's On Demand platform is underpinned by the Colt IQ Network, which spans more than 29,000 on net buildings and 900 data centers globally, and will significantly increase the reach of PacketFabric's advanced NaaS platform throughout Europe.
• Microsoft Azure compute, data and machine learning services as well as Microsoft's know-how in agile software development will enable one development environment for Car.
• Software Organisation, to build a cloud-based Automated Driving Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud, which VW claims will increase its development efficiency around ADAS and AD (automated driving) functions across all Group brands.
• Software Organisation will collaborate with Microsoft to build a cloud-based Automated Driving Platform on Microsoft Azure and leverage its compute and data capabilities to deliver automated driving experiences even faster at global scale.
• Software Organisation and Microsoft will build an Automated Driving Platform for the agile development of automated driving functions.
• Back in the fall, the National Security Agency disclosed a list of vulnerabilities - ways that software and networks can be hacked - that were exploited by Chinese state-sponsored hackers.
• The Wilson Center, a non-partisan US-based think tank, has argued that the greater the diversity of vendors in a network, the more complex the ecosystem and that mixing and matching hardware and software introduces new opportunities for vulnerabilities and unanticipated failures.
• Ecospend will provide its account-to-account payment software, allowing HMRC to process payments through the use of open banking/PSD2.
• The continued rise of automation: The growth of automation will likely be fast-tracked in the coming year as repetitive and data-driven tasks are re-allocated to tech and software, freeing up the valuable time of individuals and driving much-needed cost-efficiencies in tough economic times.
• The power of Microsoft Azure and its compute, data and AI capabilities will enable Volkswagen to deliver secure and reliable automated driving solutions to their customers faster.
• Better integration of genomic and epidemiological data will continue to improve outbreak responses but can be cumbersome without open-access data repositories - for example, for fluctuating global air travel volumes.
• Software has ambitious plans: It is building a new software platform which includes a unified architecture, an operating system and automotive cloud to come into use at the end of 2024.
• The NIH's RAS will use a GA4GH standard, called the Data Repository Service, a software interface that helps different repositories to communicate.
• US Government Agencies Under Attack CISA has issued an emergency warning that nation-state hackers have weaponise software used by many US Federal agencies and leading businesses.
• Colt's On Demand platform is underpinned by the Colt IQ Network, which spans more than 29,000 on net buildings and 900 data centres globally, and will significantly increase the reach of PacketFabric's advanced NaaS platform throughout Europe.
• Artificial intelligence generally involves machines or software that demonstrates some level of humanlike judgment, and it's a technological advancement that will change the world.
• Knorr-Bremse RailServices will focus on improving its digital and value-added services, including condition monitoring of on-board vehicle systems, prediction of wear, and the equivalent software support.
• Wind River software and expertise are accelerating digital transformation of mission-critical intelligent systems that will increasingly demand greater compute and AI capabilities while delivering the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Last updated: 22 February 2021