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).

Docker Platform Preps Containers for Production

February 23rd, 2016 Comments Off

Directly addressing concerns about its readiness for production, application container leader Docker is rolling out "container-as-a-service" platform designed to ease application development and management at scale. The Docker Datacenter unveiled Tuesday (Feb. 23) seeks to combine the inherent agility ...

IoT Developers Unify Interoperability Efforts

February 22nd, 2016 Comments Off

Silicon vendors are joining forces with appliance, software and platform specialists in the latest effort to forge Internet of Things (IoT) interoperability specifications. The Open Connectivity Foundation unveiled late last week seeks to scale the emerging IoT ecosystem by ...

Linux Vulnerability Rattles Open Source Community

February 19th, 2016 (1)

A serious Linux vulnerability reverberated through the open source community this week, prompting major vendors like Cisco Systems to issue security alerts while experts attempted to determine the extent of the compromise and how best to fix it. Meanwhile, ...

Azure Opens Up With Expanded Linux Support

February 18th, 2016 Comments Off

Microsoft has extended its embrace of open source tools on its cloud platform with a batch of Linux-based announcements, including deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances from its Azure cloud marketplace. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) expanded its cloud partnership ...

Cloud Security Gets a Boost From Deep Learning

February 17th, 2016 Comments Off

A range of new cyber security approaches is emerging that seek to shield cloud applications from attack. Some emphasize a human intelligence approach as a way of staying ahead of threats. Others are embracing artificial intelligence techniques in order ...

Another Bullish Forecast for Cloud Adoption

February 16th, 2016 (1)

New research confirms that a majority of U.S. enterprises will increase annual spending on cloud computing in 2016, with nearly half identifying increased business efficiencies as the primary benefit of switching from on-premises to cloud computing. Meanwhile, application delivery ...

OpenStack Service Targets Deployment Hassles

February 12th, 2016 Comments Off

Rackspace and Red Hat are responding to complaints that the OpenStack cloud-computing platform is too complicated with a new managed service feature designed to make it easier to deploy OpenStack while providing access to operational expertise. The partners this ...

Open Source Effort Targets Faster Nets, Storage

February 11th, 2016 Comments Off

Networking is becoming a bottleneck as enterprises store, move and sift through vast quantities of structured and unstructured data from a growing list of sources. In an effort to accelerate adoption of network virtualization, a new open source effort ...

U.S. Cyber Effort Targets Open Source Software

February 10th, 2016 Comments Off

A growing list of cyber attacks targeting U.S. government employees has prompted the Obama administration to launch a high-profile cyber security effort that among others things will target Internet "utilities" such as open source software. The Cybersecurity National Action ...

Data Platforms Supplying ‘Smarts’ to the Power Grid

February 9th, 2016 Comments Off

Software is defining and redefining everything from datacenters to the energy infrastructure delivering the power to run IT infrastructure. Software-defined power distribution that also incorporates predictive analytics to forecast future demand debuted late last year when the Dutch company ...