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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).‘API Economy’ Gets Boost With Open Spec Initiative
November 5th, 2015 (1)
A new open source initiative backed by application and service vendors as well as enterprise users aims to extend an emerging development framework to become an open API industry standard. The Linux Foundation unveiled its Open API Initiative on ...
Survey: Enterprises Lack Visibility Into Public Clouds
November 5th, 2015 Comments Off on Survey: Enterprises Lack Visibility Into Public Clouds
Public cloud adoption continues to surge, but not all adopters are seeing an immediate return on the investment, an industry survey concludes. In a survey of more than 1,600 IT professionals designed to discern public cloud adoption trends, cloud ...
Workshop Plots U.S. Course on Exascale
November 4th, 2015 Comments Off on Workshop Plots U.S. Course on Exascale
Perhaps self-evident but among the benefits flowing from National Strategic Computing Initiative discussions are clarification of specific obstacles in the path to exascale and the forcing of specific choices to take to advance extreme scale computing. Doug Burger, director ...
Docker Releases ‘Production-Ready’ Net, Cluster Tools
November 4th, 2015 Comments Off on Docker Releases ‘Production-Ready’ Net, Cluster Tools
The folks at Docker Inc. continue to push out new releases of their application container platform with the overriding goal of making key components "production-ready." The latest version, Docker 1.9, released this week focuses on multi-host networking that enables ...
IBM Expands Hybrid Cloud Strategy With Gravitant Deal
November 3rd, 2015 Comments Off on IBM Expands Hybrid Cloud Strategy With Gravitant Deal
IBM expanded its cloud and enterprise services offerings this week with the latest in a series of acquisitions designed to propel its hybrid cloud strategy. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Tuesday (Nov. 3) it has acquired privately held Gravitant Inc., ...
Open Compute Expands Switch Offerings
November 2nd, 2015 Comments Off on Open Compute Expands Switch Offerings
The networking branch of the Open Compute Project announced a pair of new standard switches this week along with plans in the upcoming year to focus on faster networking hardware and moving software development beyond lower layers while expanding ...
Hewlett Packard Reboots With Enterprise Focus
November 2nd, 2015 Comments Off on Hewlett Packard Reboots With Enterprise Focus
Hewlett-Packard, HP, the iconic company often credited with laying the foundation for Silicon Valley and, with it, an unprecedented burst of technological creativity, attempts to reinvent itself beginning today as HPE, or Hewlett Packard Enterprise. As with many technology ...
IBM Bluemix Adds Apache Kafka Messaging
October 30th, 2015 Comments Off on IBM Bluemix Adds Apache Kafka Messaging
Cloud vendors continue to add a range of open-source development tools to their platforms. The latest example comes from IBM, which has steadily been building up the toolbox on its Bluemix development platform. The company said Friday (Oct. 30) ...
Rackspace Jumps on Container Bandwagon with Carina
October 29th, 2015 Comments Off on Rackspace Jumps on Container Bandwagon with Carina
Rackspace used this week's OpenStack Summit in Tokyo to jump on the application container bandwagon with a native container environment. Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) said its Carina container environment combines bare-metal performance with native container tooling and orchestration to help ...
Genomics Workflows Get a Boost
October 29th, 2015 Comments Off on Genomics Workflows Get a Boost
Accelerating genomics analysis remains one of the toughest challenges in life science research. All manner of optimizations are in use – disk streaming, optimized parallel files systems, algorithm tweaks, faster processors, and hardware accelerators, to name a few – ...