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).

Puppet Labs Rolls App Orchestration Tool

October 2nd, 2015 Comments Off

An application orchestration tool from IT automation specialist Puppet Labs aims to improve the deployment and management of IT infrastructure and distributed applications. Puppet Labs, Portland, Ore., said Thursday (Oct. 1) its streamlined orchestration process enables the modeling of ...

IBM Expands Bluemix With ‘Local’ Security

October 1st, 2015 Comments Off

The steady enterprise shift to the hybrid cloud infrastructure brings with it greater requirements for managing that infrastructure while moving data and applications securely between on-premise platforms and public and private clouds. Those hybrid cloud requirements have lengthened the ...

Linux Study Claims $5B in Economic Impact

September 30th, 2015 (2)

Open source software development in general and Linux in particular have helped generate an estimated $5 billion in economic value, according to a new report by the Linux Foundation gauging the fruits of collaborative projects. In a report released ...

Microsoft Unveils Azure Containers

September 29th, 2015 Comments Off

Microsoft filled in the details of its application container strategy with the unveiling of its Azure Container Service based on partnerships with Docker and datacenter OS and container orchestration specialist Mesosphere. Microsoft (MFST) initially announced plans to support Docker ...

Gauging Resource Management as Hadoop Clusters Grow

September 28th, 2015 Comments Off

Among the challenges to broader adoption of Hadoop in the enterprise are supporting multiple users and departments on a single cluster along with leveraging systems handling diverse workloads. Other hurdles include the efficient allocation of resources and costs across ...

Cisco Doubles Down in China

September 25th, 2015 Comments Off

Cisco Systems continues to expand its considerable presence in China despite growing friction between U.S. high-tech companies and the government of Chinese President Xi Jinping. On the eve of President Xi's visit to the U.S., Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins ...

Healthcare Shift to the Cloud Quickens

September 24th, 2015 (2)

Among the emerging use cases for cloud and other IT platforms is the digitization of health records, an application with strict regulatory guidelines but a crying need for modernization as the nature of healthcare delivery changes. Getting the digitization ...

DataStax Partners With Microsoft, Unveils Graph Database

September 23rd, 2015 Comments Off

DataStax has augmented the latest release of its Cassandra distributed database with an open source, scale-out graph database capability. The upgrade coincides with a preview release of the latest version of Apache Cassandra that incorporates storage and developer improvements. ...

Enterprise Cassandra Gets a Storage Boost

September 22nd, 2015 Comments Off

As enterprises embrace NoSQL and other emerging database technologies, they are encountering familiar teething problems as they attempt to scale out and deal with stress points like soaring costs for hardware like fast media storage. In the thick of ...

Researcher: Few Financial Incentives to Invest on Cybersecurity

September 21st, 2015 Comments Off

You may have noticed that big retailers like Target, the target of a massive security breach, have finally gotten around to installing new "point of sales" terminals. Moreover, your bank may have at last started distributing more secure EMV ...