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).

Red Hat Acquires DevOps, Automation Startup Ansible

October 16th, 2015 Comments Off

The growing emphasis on DevOps and IT automation as vendors seek to provide "frictionless IT" to ease the transition to hybrid cloud infrastructure has prompted open source leader Red Hat to acquire up-and-coming automation specialist Ansible Inc. Red Hat ...

IBM, VMware Ally to Push Hybrid Cloud Adoption

October 15th, 2015 (1)

VMware earlier this week announced a refresh of its hybrid cloud management platform that ties those tools more closely to its NSX network virtualization platform for software-defined datacenters. The upgrades were intended to help configure networks and enable micro-segmentation, ...

Cost Worries Grow Along with Cloud Adoption

October 14th, 2015 Comments Off

More data points emerged this week about cloud adoption rates as well as the reasons behind application delivery snafus in the cloud and virtual platforms. The findings emerged in separate surveys from a VMware (NYSE: VMW) event and another ...

VMware, New Dell Unit, Refreshes Cloud Platform

October 13th, 2015 Comments Off

VMware rolled out a batch of upgrades to its hybrid cloud management platform a day after it was merged as part of EMC Corp. with Dell Inc. VMware (NYSE: VMW) unveiled a "complete refresh" of its cloud management platform ...

VMware Targets Synergies in Dell-EMC Deal

October 12th, 2015 Comments Off

The "hyper-convergence" of computing and storage accelerated with confirmation that Dell Inc. and technology investor Silver Lake Partners will acquire storage leader EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) for an estimated $67 billion. Under terms of the deal announced on Monday ...

AWS Launches Container Services, DevOps Tools Follow

October 9th, 2015 Comments Off

Amazon Web Services (AMZN) beefed up the Docker application container infrastructure this week with the roll out of a container registry and interface tool designed to scale and rapidly update micro-services and distributed applications. The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ...

EMC, Mesosphere Collaborate on Datacenter Storage

October 8th, 2015 Comments Off

Mesosphere, the datacenter operating system specialist, is teaming with federated storage leader EMC Corp. to expand datacenter storage options within Apaches Mesos cluster management architectures. Mesosphere said Thursday (Oct. 8) its collaboration with EMC (NYSE: EMC) means its datacenter ...

Pure Storage Launches IPO as Flash Eyes Mainstream

October 7th, 2015 Comments Off

All-flash storage array specialist Pure Storage launched a $400 million initial public offering this week, one of the largest technology IPOs of the year, prompting other all-flash vendors to assert that the emerging storage architecture is entering the mainstream. ...

The Case for ‘Inexactness’ in Supercomputing

October 6th, 2015 Comments Off

Scientific computing must become less rigid and power hungry as researchers seek new ways to model and understand the real world, a climatologist argues. In a commentary published this week in the journal Nature, climate researcher Tim Palmer asserted ...

Mobile Security Threat Growing for Enterprises

October 5th, 2015 (2)

Corporate data security breaches are increasingly originating from mobile devices equipped with high-level access to company databases, new research finds. According to new mobile security survey by IDG Research of 100 "global IT leaders," 74 percent said they have ...