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).

Mirantis, CoreOS Marry OpenStack With Containers

August 6th, 2015 Comments Off

Capitalizing on momentum generated by the release of a production-ready container cluster manager, OpenStack vendor Mirantis and hyperscale Linux developer CoreOS are combining the former's OpenStack distribution with the latter's software stack designed to move application containers into production. ...

Toshiba, SanDisk Ready High-Density Flash

August 5th, 2015 Comments Off

Flash memory joint venture partners SanDisk Corp. and Toshiba have released the production schedule for a new generation flash device destined for ultra-high density storage devices. SanDisk and Toshiba America Electronics Components Inc. based on Irvine, Calif., this week ...

HP Beefs Up Helion Ecosystem

August 4th, 2015 Comments Off

Addressing what it says is the growing need for more flexible infrastructure to deploy and run new applications, Hewlett-Packard rolled out a "hyper-converged infrastructure appliance" delivering a virtual server and storage platform designed to be configured in minutes. HP ...

Seagate, Micron Target Enterprise With New SSD

August 4th, 2015 Comments Off

A new solid-state drive targeted at enterprise and cloud users is the first storage platform resulting from an alliance announced earlier this year between Seagate Technology and memory specialist Micron Technology Inc. Along with storage density up to 4 ...

CERN to Deploy Brocade’s OpenFlow SDN

July 31st, 2015 Comments Off

Software-defined networking technology got a boost this week with a new and demanding use case: uncovering the secrets of the universe. Networking equipment vendor Brocade Communication Systems said it is partnering with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better ...

Help Wanted: Mobile App Developers in Demand

July 30th, 2015 Comments Off

A raft of new open source initiatives seeks to attract new application developers as vendors look to build up DevOps capabilities. A new study commissioned by open source leader Red Hat finds that enterprise mobility can be added to ...

‘Can Containers Contain?’ Remains Top Security Issue

July 29th, 2015 Comments Off

Among the stumbling blocks to scaling application container technology are lingering concerns about security in production environments. Secure deployment of Docker and other container workloads in production was among the priorities of the Open Container Initiative launched in June. ...

Intel, Micron Stack New Memory Technology

July 28th, 2015 (1)

Chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology are claiming a new class of memory technology based on new materials and a three-dimensional "cross point" architecture said to deliver a 1,000-fold increase in non-volatile memory speeds. The partners said on Tuesday ...

Intel, Rackspace Target OpenStack Development

July 27th, 2015 Comments Off

Chipmaker Intel and OpenStack leader Rackspace are joining forces to promote enterprise applications and cloud scaling within OpenStack source code. As part of a new cloud initiative announced by Intel, the partners said they would establish an OpenStack Initiative ...

IoT Deployments Extending Beyond Industrial

July 24th, 2015 Comments Off

More than three-quarters of global executives surveyed in a new Internet of Things study said they have launched IoT initiatives and those efforts are beginning to expand beyond early adopters in the industrial manufacturing sector. The latest survey of ...