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).

‘Wireless-in-Space’ Test Could Help Launch Sensor Nets

July 2nd, 2015 Comments Off

Big thinkers with deep pockets like uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk want to bring wireless connectivity to the masses by launching satellite Internet constellations. Given technical issues like latency and the need to launch thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit to ...

Datacenter Spending Steady As Cloud Shift Accelerates

July 1st, 2015 Comments Off

Spending on datacenter operations remained steady during the second quarter of 2015 while 25 percent of those administrators responding to a survey said they planned to boost datacenter spending for retrofits over the next 90 days. As datacenter operators ...

DDN Eyes Enterprise with Storage Strategy

June 30th, 2015 Comments Off

Scalable storage specialist DataDirect Networks (DDN) is launching an aggressive technology roadmap built around software-defined storage, data analytics and other cloud-based services such as active archiving as enterprises cope with growing amounts unstructured data. DDN (Santa Clara, Calif.) led ...

OpenDaylight Project Releases SDN Upgrade

June 29th, 2015 Comments Off

The OpenDaylight Project designed to accelerate the rollout of software-defined networking announced its third SDN software release along with the formation of a 12-member industry advisory group. The project backed by the Linux Foundation said Monday (June 29) its ...

IBM Insists It’s Open to Open Source

June 29th, 2015 (1)

The annual Red Hat Summit, held in Boston last week, is something of revival tent for open source where the pulpits are plentiful and so are smiling believers. Indeed it’s hard to dispute the powerful innovation springing from open ...

IBM Cloud Gets a Boost with Box Deal

June 26th, 2015 Comments Off

IBM's partnership this week with Box, the enterprise collaboration software vendor, extends the reach of IBM's cloud services such as Bluemix along with its Watson artificial-intelligence technology to another large service provider. IBM and Box (Los Gatos, Calif.) said ...

One Way or Another, Flash Storage Hits Datacenters

June 25th, 2015 (1)

Flash-based storage arrays—whether all flash or hybrid—are making headway in the datacenter as storage administrators charged with coping with exponential data growth hustle to unclog network bottlenecks that remain as a barrier to greater adoption of solid-state arrays. This ...

Red Hat Looks Beyond Enterprise With Samsung Deal

June 24th, 2015 Comments Off

Amid a big week for the open source community, Red Hat announced a batch of new partnerships during its annual company event this week, including an alliance with consumer electronics giant Samsung to deliver mobile applications to the enterprise ...

Docker Targets Production With New Tools, Services

June 23rd, 2015 Comments Off

As it moves to become a de facto standard for application container formats, Docker released a batch of management tools, support services and a new on-premise registry for container images this week all designed to speed container adoption in ...

Goldman Sachs Brokers Container Spec Deal

June 22nd, 2015 Comments Off

With a nudge from major customers like financial services giant Goldman Sachs, a group of software vendors said they are coalescing around a new initiative created to establish industry standards for application containers. The Open Container Project was unveiled ...