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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).IBM Joins Blockchain Push
July 1st, 2016 Comments Off on IBM Joins Blockchain Push
The launch earlier this year of an open transaction initiative designed to develop industry standards for blockchain technology generated much interest and buzz. For example, the financial and technology sectors are flocking to the Linux Foundation effort called the ...
Cloud Adopters Balancing Cost Savings, Security
June 30th, 2016 (1)
Cloud security vendors are betting that more enterprises are looking to outsource their security operations just as they have turned over management of parts of their IT infrastructure to public cloud suppliers. A new study released this week by ...
IoT, Containers Seen Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Push
June 29th, 2016 Comments Off on IoT, Containers Seen Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Push
The steady, seemingly inexorable, shift to enterprise hybrid cloud infrastructure is being driven by factors ranging from the disaggregation of storage from computing resources in the datacenter to the emergence of new network topologies and constructs such as the ...
Switch Chip Targets Programmable Networks
June 27th, 2016 Comments Off on Switch Chip Targets Programmable Networks
Barefoot Networks, the high-flying networking chip startup that recently emerged from stealth mode, unveiled a zippy switch that it asserts is also fully programmable as the startup targets networking bottlenecks in software-defined datacenters. The Palo Alto startup co-founded by ...
U.S. OKs AWS Cloud For Sensitive Data
June 24th, 2016 Comments Off on U.S. OKs AWS Cloud For Sensitive Data
Amazon Web Services extended its cloud reach deeper into government IT infrastructure with an announcement this week that it has been certified to handle a larger share of federal workloads. The public cloud giant (NASDAQ: AMZN), which provides secure ...
Datacenter Survey Confirms Steady Cloud Shift
June 22nd, 2016 Comments Off on Datacenter Survey Confirms Steady Cloud Shift
A respected datacenter survey of senior enterprise IT executives finds that half expect the majority of production workloads to reside in the cloud or colocation sites, a process that is expected to accelerate through 2020. According to the annual ...
How to Avoid the Container ‘Mushroom Cloud Effect’
June 21st, 2016 Comments Off on How to Avoid the Container ‘Mushroom Cloud Effect’
As application containers scale in production, some early results are coming in about what can go wrong. Among the potential downsides of a micro-service architecture is what one observer ominously refers to as the "mushroom cloud effect." In a ...
More Production Workloads to the Cloud, Survey Says
June 20th, 2016 Comments Off on More Production Workloads to the Cloud, Survey Says
A vendor specializing in secure software-defined computing claims broad adoption of the emerging IT infrastructure platform in enterprise datacenters as more workloads ranging from routine functions to mission-critical tasks shift to public clouds. HyTrust Inc., which works with public ...
DevOps Gets a New Analytics Tool
June 17th, 2016 Comments Off on DevOps Gets a New Analytics Tool
Among the growing number of uses for machine learning-based analytics is providing insight into how the latest software release in a continuous delivery cycle affects overall IT operations. With that approach in mind, a software-as-a-service vendor has released an ...
As Containers Catch On, So Too Do Storage Concerns
June 16th, 2016 Comments Off on As Containers Catch On, So Too Do Storage Concerns
Persistent storage requirements have overtaken security as the top barrier to adoption of application containers in production, according to a new adoption survey. The container market adoption survey released Thursday (June 16) by data management software vendor ClusterHQ nevertheless ...