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).

Network Outages Expose an Aging, Vulnerable Internet

January 7th, 2016 Comments Off

None of us is getting any younger, and the same is true of the Internet. Experts who track major outages are warning that the Internet is not aging well, and that the network architecture of a decade ago is ...

Cloudability Acquires DataHero to Help Manage IT Costs

January 6th, 2016 Comments Off

Now that most enterprises have been convinced they need a cloud strategy that frequently begins with the embrace of public cloud, a services sector has emerged to help companies manage cloud computing infrastructure and costs. That cloud sector is ...

Microsoft, Rambus Collaborate on Quantum Computing

January 5th, 2016 (1)

Rambus Inc., the chip technology intellectual property vendor, is working with Microsoft Research on future memory requirements for quantum computing. Rambus (NASDAQ: RMBS), Sunnyvale, Calif., confirmed just before the holidays it is collaborating with the software giant (NASDAQ: MSFT) ...

Storage Consolidation Quickens With NetApp-SolidFire Deal

January 4th, 2016 (2)

The consolidation of the storage sector gained momentum at the end of 2015 with NetApp Inc.'s deal to acquire all-flash startup SolidFire for $870 million in cash. The deal announced just before the holidays also accelerates efforts by NetApp ...

Red Hat Augments OpenShift For Container Push

December 16th, 2015 Comments Off

Red Hat continues to build up its arsenal of OpenShift application platform capabilities as it adds integration and other middleware capabilities designed to get Docker containers up and running in production. The open-source leader (NYSE: RHT) said Wednesday (Dec. ...

IBM Combines Watson With IoT

December 15th, 2015 Comments Off

IBM said it would seek to combine its Watson cognitive computing technology with the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) as another way to boost its cloud platform. The company also announced it would establish a new Watson IoT hub ...

DevOps Security Firewall Tracks Open-Source Software

December 14th, 2015 Comments Off

Greater use of open-source software also is increasing security risks. According to the developer of a new DevOps firewall technology, one in 16 third-party components downloaded from public repositories brings with it a known vulnerability. Since open-source software development ...

Microsoft Cloud Gets a Container Partner

December 11th, 2015 Comments Off

Microsoft's application container ecosystem continues to expand with the announcement this week by a virtualization, container and data management vendor that it would make its container technology available on the Microsoft Azure cloud. San Jose-based Sphere3D Corp. (NASDAQ: ANY) ...

Standards Group Eyes Industry Consensus on Containers

December 10th, 2015 Comments Off

The Open Container Initiative (OCI) launched earlier this year to develop industry standards for Linux-based containers said this week it has established a governing structure to oversee technical details and referee disputes as application containers make their way into ...

Hybrid Storage Seen as Safer Bet For Virtual Workloads

December 9th, 2015 Comments Off

Akin to their cloud deployments, enterprises are hedging their bets on storage by adopting a mix of storage options for virtualized infrastructure in datacenters. Hence, a new vendor survey concludes, flash-based hybrid storage is making inroads in the datacenters. ...