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).

Docker Tool Chest Continues to Grow

September 18th, 2015 Comments Off

Adoption and expansion of Docker application container technology continues to gain steam. San Francisco-based Docker, the de facto leader of the Linux distributed app container movement, announced an update this week to its Docker Hub, the cloud service designed ...

Survey: Corporate Security Battle is Being Lost

September 17th, 2015 Comments Off

The key to protecting corporate data and preventing security breaches are policies that limit the sharing of access credentials, a new security survey concludes. The enterprise security survey released this week by corporate security vendor Centrify Corp. found that ...

EMC Bundles ScaleIO Software, Servers

September 16th, 2015 Comments Off

Storage leader EMC Corp. said it is bundling commodity servers with ScaleIO software to serve as a "node" for deploying and leveraging software-defined storage. EMC's ScaleIO Node is designed to scale out from three to more than 1,000 nodes ...

Cassandra NoSQL Deployments Convincing Doubters

September 15th, 2015 (2)

Apache Cassandra, the Java-based distributed NoSQL database, is making inroads in production despite lingering skepticism about its ability to handle mission critical deployments. While Cassandra remains a second fiddle to NoSQL database market leader MongoDB, it has emerged as ...

IoT Seen as Prelude to ‘Sensor Swarm’

September 14th, 2015 Comments Off

The current IT infrastructure shaped by the proliferation of mobile devices will soon give way to a "sensory swarm" that will overtake the current Internet of Things (IoT) while adding intelligence to a range of networks and infrastructure, a ...

IBM Adds Node.js App Tools with StrongLoop Deal

September 11th, 2015 Comments Off

In a bid to bolster its toolbox for developing cloud-based applications, IBM said this week it would acquire StrongLoop Inc., an application development software startup. Two-year-old StrongLoop, based in San Mateo, Calif., is a provider of application development software ...

In-Memory Platform Targets Real-Time Data

September 10th, 2015 Comments Off

Querying real-time data on a massive scale remains a huge infrastructure hurdle that is increasingly being addressed by in-memory data grids. Hazelcast Inc., an in-memory computing vendor and partner C24 Technologies have rolled out an in-memory approach that promises ...

IoT Must Be ‘Cloud-Native’ to Scale, Group Says

September 10th, 2015 Comments Off

A proposed open-source framework for the Internet of Things released this week is being positioned as the first cloud-native architecture to be documented as an industry specification. The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) formed last July said Thursday (Sept. 10) ...

HP Ventures Joins Chef Funding Round

September 9th, 2015 Comments Off

Chef Software said it has closed a $40 million funding round as traditional hyperscale datacenter infrastructure development continues to shift to the enterprise. The Seattle-based DevOps automation specialist said Wednesday (Sept. 9) that the latest funding round led by ...

IBM, ARM Collaborate on IoT Platform

September 4th, 2015 Comments Off

IBM and processor intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. have joined forces on an Internet of Things platform that will integrate ARM devices with analytics services. The partners said this week the collaboration through IBM's IoT Foundation would use ARM ...