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).

Cloud-based DevOps Tool Aims to Speed App Delivery

March 22nd, 2016 Comments Off

Getting enterprise applications out the door faster and into production is becoming a key task for harried DevOps teams. The barrier to faster deployment, according to an emerging group of tool vendors, is the inability to quickly scale applications ...

CoreOS Targets Container Image Security

March 21st, 2016 Comments Off

Application container pioneers continue to roll out new security features as micro-services shift to primetime. The latest comes from upstart CoreOS, which introduced a new container image analyzer designed to provide developers with greater visibility into vulnerabilities that could ...

IoT Data Study Predicts Many Early Failures

March 18th, 2016 Comments Off

Most observers agree that enterprises must brace for the expected onslaught of unstructured data to be generated by the Internet of Things (IoT). The problem, according to a recent study, is that most of the proposed solutions for handling ...

ARM Scales Chips for Datacenters, HPC

March 17th, 2016 Comments Off

ARM Ltd., the U.K. chip design and licensing vendor, is targeting datacenters and processors intended for high-performance computing in a chip process technology deal with the world's largest chip foundry. ARM (LSE: ARM, NASDAQ: ARMH) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...

Pivot3 Will Use New Funding to Integrate Flash Acquisition

March 16th, 2016 Comments Off

Storage specialist Pivot3, which recently acquired flash array startup NexGen Storage Inc., said this week it has completed a $55 million funding round as it rolls out an expanded portfolio of hyper-converged and flash storage options. Pivot3 said Tuesday ...

Storage Study Warns of Growing ‘Databergs’

March 15th, 2016 Comments Off

The ability to sweep up, store and organize vast amounts of data, then turn the connections among data points into insights and strategies is creating new revenue streams for enterprises. But what happens when stored data reaches its freshness ...

Rival Camps Try to ‘Orchestrate’ Container Specs

March 14th, 2016 Comments Off

The basis for an application container scheme continues to evolve as a group seeking to align competing technologies announced acceptance of a container orchestration platform developed by Google. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation said its technical oversight panel has ...

Facebook’s ‘Building Blocks’ Mantra Includes Intel

March 11th, 2016 Comments Off

Facebook executives touted the advantages of its datacenter "building blocks" approach during the Open Compute Project (OCP) summit as a way to achieve flexibility and faster scaling. Meanwhile, it also detailed datacenter processing and storage projects with chipmaker Intel ...

OpenStack Deployment, Complexity Concerns Persist

March 10th, 2016 Comments Off

The OpenStack cloud-computing platform is making inroads in the datacenter where an industry survey found that 30 percent of early adopters are using it to support projects or for production workloads. Roughly the same percentage of respondents to the ...

Lenovo, Juniper Eye China Datacenters With Server Partnership

March 9th, 2016 Comments Off

As it seeks to boost global demand for servers, especially in the nascent Asian market, Lenovo announced a "global strategic partnership" this week with networking specialist Juniper Networks aimed at the next generation of hyper-converged datacenters. Lenovo (HKSE:992), which ...