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 Targets Enterprise Video with Clearleap Deal

December 8th, 2015 Comments Off

Unstructured data in the form of video continues to make inroads in large enterprises as it becomes as a service as well as source of business intelligence. With that in mind, IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Tuesday (Dec. 8) it ...

Survey: Security Concerns Boost Hybrid Clouds

December 7th, 2015 (1)

Amid lingering concerns about cloud security, a new survey of IT professional confirms that a hybrid cloud strategy is increasingly the preferred way to exploit the advantages of cloud technology while managing security risks. Netwrix Corp., a change and ...

Startup Gives DevOps an Analytics Boost

December 4th, 2015 Comments Off

A new flavor of DevOps is emerging around the concept of intelligent operations as a way to troubleshoot infrastructure issues arising in web-scale application operations. OpsClarity, Sunnyvale, Calif., said this week its "intelligent operations platform" applies analytics to digest ...

Startup Gains Backing for its Converged Datacenter Scheme

December 3rd, 2015 Comments Off

Investment banker Goldman Sachs has been spreading the cash around lately through a series of investments in enterprise technologies ranging from big data to application infrastructure. It's latest foray combines a new datacenter approach with an operational analytics twist. ...

CoreOS Bolsters Container Platform With Crypto ‘Trust’

December 2nd, 2015 Comments Off

A stumbling block to broader adoption of micro-services in general and application containers in particular has been ensuring the overall security of infrastructure while running business-critical applications housed in containers. Hence, there has been an early emphasis on isolating ...

HPE, Microsoft Join Forces on Hybrid Cloud

December 1st, 2015 Comments Off

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft are extending their cloud partnership with a hyper-converged platform aimed at capturing a larger share of the market for hybrid cloud computing. Separately, HPE (NYSE: HPE) unveiled a managed cloud brokerage service based ...

Cisco Expands Container Infrastructure Effort

November 30th, 2015 Comments Off

Cisco Systems is taking an infrastructure approach to container-based application deployment via an open source project designed to define operational specifications for networking, storage and computing. Project Contiv unveiled by the networking giant earlier this month is designed to ...

Windows Server 2016 Adds Hyper-V Container Support

November 25th, 2015 Comments Off

The growing shift toward cloud-native technologies and applications running in "hybrid datacenters" continues with Microsoft's release of more technical details for Windows Server 2016. As EnterpriseTech reported in August, Microsoft is emphasizing support for application containers, particularly Docker containers. ...

Towards a ‘Composable Infrastructure’

November 24th, 2015 Comments Off

Composable infrastructure is all about making IT truly programmable in order to get the infrastructure that is needed through a single line of code, the author argues.

IoT Momentum Building From Ground Up

November 23rd, 2015 (1)

The churn of technology fuels industry consolidation, an inexorable process that includes individual companies as well as industry groups tasked with driving technical standards. The latest example comes from the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) launched last year to jumpstart ...