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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).Startup Floats First Commercial ‘Data Barge’
November 13th, 2015 Comments Off on Startup Floats First Commercial ‘Data Barge’
Datacenter operators have adopted a range of novel approaches to reducing energy consumption while boosting a key industry metric: power usage effectiveness, or PUE. These approaches range from building datacenters above the Arctic Circle to eliminating the need for ...
SDN Scheme Aims to Cut Capital Markets Client Provisioning Delays
November 12th, 2015 Comments Off on SDN Scheme Aims to Cut Capital Markets Client Provisioning Delays
With the expansion of their global software-defined network (SDN) dedicated to the capital markets industry, Lucera Financial Infrastructures and fiber optics vendor Perseus assert they have cracked one of the most vexing problems faced by traders: shortening the process ...
More Partners Sign On to IBM Cloud
November 12th, 2015 Comments Off on More Partners Sign On to IBM Cloud
IBM rolled out new cloud developer services and tools this week while announcing a partnership with one of India's largest IT outsourcing vendors as it continues to extend its cloud business to capitalize on the enterprise shift to hybrid ...
The Rise of the Open-Source Platform
November 12th, 2015 (3)
The success of closed-source companies (like Microsoft in the early days of the digital revolution) made it easy to write off open source as a niche movement with little real-world relevance. But the concept of open source is almost as old ...
All-Flash Startup Leverages QoS as a ‘Differentiator’
November 11th, 2015 Comments Off on All-Flash Startup Leverages QoS as a ‘Differentiator’
With all-flash arrays making inroads into enterprise storage infrastructure, the growing list of vendors of PCIe flash arrays are looking for ways to differentiate themselves while persuading potential customers that they can reap a quick return on a still ...
Cloud Vendors Address EU Safe Harbor Ruling
November 10th, 2015 Comments Off on Cloud Vendors Address EU Safe Harbor Ruling
Cloud vendors are responding to last month's data privacy ruling by a European court with security upgrades to cloud storage and orchestration services aimed at helping customers meet stricter EU data protection requirements. Among the first out of the ...
Verizon Survey: Hybrid Cloud Now ‘Mainstream’
November 9th, 2015 Comments Off on Verizon Survey: Hybrid Cloud Now ‘Mainstream’
Verizon's annual report on enterprise cloud adoption argues that a shift is underway from embracing the cloud for mission-critical workloads to a more aggressive use of cloud platforms to develop new customer-facing use cases and other revenue generators. The ...
Red Hat Previews Atomic Container Host
November 9th, 2015 Comments Off on Red Hat Previews Atomic Container Host
Red Hat launched a lightweight Linux container host initiative last year called "Project Atomic" just as the application container movement was gaining market momentum. The company said this week it is finally offering a "preview" of its Atomic Enterprise ...
IT Infrastructure Seen Straining Under Data Torrent
November 6th, 2015 Comments Off on IT Infrastructure Seen Straining Under Data Torrent
As they seek to develop and implement big data strategies, companies are increasingly nervous about the inability of their existing IT infrastructure to handle huge increases in data from emerging sources like the Internet of Things and sensor data. ...
‘Fabric Democratization’ Could Boost Enterprise Interconnects
November 6th, 2015 Comments Off on ‘Fabric Democratization’ Could Boost Enterprise Interconnects
New fabric interconnect technology could be “a game changer,” according to market watcher International Data Corp. (IDC), with the potential to break the price/performance mold established by interconnects based on Infiniband and Ethernet. IDC Research Vice President Steve Conway ...