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).

VMware Fleshes Out the Virtual Datacenter

September 3rd, 2015 Comments Off

VMware's expansion beyond the virtualized server to the "software-defined datacenter" reached a crescendo at a company event in San Francisco this week, highlighted by a slew of announcements around the goal of extending server virtualization across the datacenter and ...

IBM Targets In-Memory Databases With Power8

September 2nd, 2015 Comments Off

IBM and SAP have joined forces to add the HANA database to IBM's Power platform upgraded specifically to run in-memory analytics. The partners said SAP HANA would run across the entire Power8 processor line. IBM's E880 server based on ...

Researchers Take Wraps Off Open Source GPU

September 1st, 2015 (2)

The outlines of an open source hardware platform continue to come into focus with the introduction of what is claimed by university researchers to be the first general purpose graphics processor design. In a white paper released during a ...

VMware Stresses Integration in Hybrid Cloud Platform

August 31st, 2015 Comments Off

VMware unveiled its "unified hybrid cloud platform" this week, stressing "tighter integration" of new public cloud services with a software-defined datacenter approach designed to speed the building and delivery of business applications at scale. "Applications are a key differentiator ...

OpenPower, French HPC Center Collaborate on Exascale

August 28th, 2015 Comments Off

The French high-performance computing center will work with IBM and the OpenPower Foundation to hasten its path to exascale computing, the partners announced this week. IBM and GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif), which coordinates French HPC efforts, ...

SaaS Seen Driving Enterprise Software Sales

August 27th, 2015 Comments Off

Market researcher Gartner predicts that application software sales will grow 7.5 percent this year and would exceed $200 billion by 2019, driven by widespread adoption of the cloud-based SaaS model.

Storage Vendors Target Docker Management

August 26th, 2015 Comments Off

A partner network announced this week will deliver storage drivers for ClusterHQ's Flocker container data management software rolled out a year ago. The partnership would allow the enterprise storage vendors to offer customers hardware or software-defined storage options based ...

Startup Targets Early Docker Support on Windows Server

August 25th, 2015 Comments Off

More production support for Docker containers emerged this week in the form of a startup founded by former Microsoft engineers that is emerging from stealth mode to support the Docker Engine on the current version of Windows Server. WinDocks, ...

OpenStack Developer Gets Another Boost from Intel

August 24th, 2015 Comments Off

OpenStack developer Mirantis is on the receiving end of another big investment round led by Intel Corp., which headed a previous $100 million funding round last October in the pure-play OpenStack software vendor. The cloud partners announced Monday (Aug. ...

Docker Containers Set to Run on Windows Server 2016

August 19th, 2015 Comments Off

Microsoft rolled out a technical preview of its Windows Server 2016 on Wednesday (Aug. 19) that includes the first peek at Windows Server containers developed in partnership with application container leader Docker. The advance moves Docker containers a step ...