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).

IBM Launches Open Cloud Development Platform

July 23rd, 2015 Comments Off

It's open season for open source development, the latest example being a cloud-based platform launched this week by IBM along with the release of 50 projects designed to speed enterprise adoption of cloud-based development as well as new applications ...

Open Container Movement Gathers Steam

July 22nd, 2015 Comments Off

A growing list of hyper-scalers, communications equipment providers and carriers along with cloud and datacenter suppliers have lined up to back a rebranded application container standards effort. The Open Container Initiative (OCI), formerly the Open Container Project, has added ...

Google-Led Effort Targets Container Orchestration

July 21st, 2015 Comments Off

The Linux Foundation said this week it is launching a new container orchestration initiative aimed at advancing the development of native cloud applications and services. The consortium of companies led by Google has formed the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ...

IoT Group Updates Spec, Adds Members

July 20th, 2015 Comments Off

The membership roster of an Internet of Things standards group continues to expand with the addition of IBM, National Instruments and six other global institutions and manufacturers that promises to speed the deployment of an industrial IoT. The Open ...

Wind Will Power New Facebook Datacenter

July 10th, 2015 (1)

Facebook announced this week its fifth datacenter under construction in Fort Worth, Texas, would be powered by renewable energy sources, including wind. The social media giant said the new $1 billion datacenter would use only renewable energy sources after ...

IBM Moves Pipeline Operation to the Cloud

July 9th, 2015 Comments Off

IBM will supply cloud and other IT services to a new gas pipeline company spun off earlier this month from a large energy infrastructure supplier. IBM said Thursday (July 9) its five-year IT services deal with Columbia Pipeline Group ...

Panasas Rolls Out ActiveStor 18

July 9th, 2015 Comments Off

Hybrid scale-out NAS specialist Panasas today introduced ActiveStor 18, the latest in its ActiveStor appliance line. According to the company, the new appliance features a 33 percent increase in density, is available in 4TB and 8TB hard drive configurations, ...

SGI, Dell Partner to Scale SAP HANA

July 8th, 2015 Comments Off

The convergence of extreme scale computing and real-time workloads in large enterprises continues with a partnership between high-performance computing leader SGI and Dell aimed at providing in-memory computing to Dell customers running SAP HANA. SGI, Milpitas, Calif., said Wednesday ...

Datacenter Economics No Longer Add Up

July 7th, 2015 Comments Off

The inexorable rise of big data and the waterfall of unstructured data being generated by connected devices and sensors are fundamentally changing datacenter economics, prompting a growing number of enterprises to consider greater IT virtualization or colocation as they ...

AT&T Looks to Cut Network Storage Costs

July 6th, 2015 (1)

Big network operators like telecommunications and cable carriers are looking for ways to manage storage costs as data volumes grow and applications like streaming video begin to dominate datacenter workloads and network bandwidth. With monthly data storage costs running ...