In September IBM announced Red Hat Marketplace, a marketplace open to the public where organizations can purchase and deploy hybrid cloud solutions. The software offered is built on the Kubernetes Operator Framework as cloud services on the Red Hat Open Shift platform. This allows for simplicity in trial, purchase and deployment of flexible software solutions. At launch there were already over 50 vendor offerings ready for developers to choose from and these all include business support.

Cloud computing is transforming all industries and the more traditional manufacturing sector is not excluded from this transformation. Manufacturers face steep competition from legacy competitors along with niche startups. Many US manufacturing industries beyond technology have seen a decline in employment over the last 20 years. However, US manufacturing output has seen double digit growth over the same time period. The economics of manufacturing in the US and elsewhere in the world is a very complex set of topics that is best left to economists, but some discussion related to technology is relevant here.

Amazon recently released AutoGlun, the open source toolkit for automated machine learning. Developing machine learning applications can be very involved with essential multiple layers as a requirement. For example, developers must define the parameters for choices in construction of the AI model and spend considerable amounts of time with data set pre-processing. They also need to consider finding the best architecture design for their AI models. AWS has a considerable amount of tools to develop AI applications.