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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).NSA Contributes Security Tools For Puppet
June 19th, 2015 (3)
IT automation specialist Puppet Labs has announced a new partner: The U.S. National Security Agency. Puppet Labs said Friday (June 19) that NSA is releasing to the open source community a set of tools based on Puppet Labs' technologies ...
Red Hat Survey Highlights Container Certification
June 19th, 2015 Comments Off on Red Hat Survey Highlights Container Certification
Production deployment of Linux application containers may not be meeting expectations, but there is no shortage of industry surveys attempting to pinpoint barriers to adoption. The latest released on Friday (June 19) comes from key container technology proponent Red ...
NIST Looks to Secure the IoT
June 18th, 2015 Comments Off on NIST Looks to Secure the IoT
Among the most vulnerable points in networks ranging from home offices to the proposed Internet of Everything are radio frequency, or RF, links that will be used to tie together potentially billions of devices. RF links on drones are ...
Old Passwords, Anonymity Software Suspected in Baseball Hack
June 17th, 2015 Comments Off on Old Passwords, Anonymity Software Suspected in Baseball Hack
The database hacking scandal rocking Major League Baseball raises new questions about how to secure insider information about the algorithms developed by professional sports teams to evaluate prospects and assign values to ballplayers offered or sought in trades. If ...
Barriers to Container Adoption Persist, Survey Finds
June 17th, 2015 Comments Off on Barriers to Container Adoption Persist, Survey Finds
While interest in application containers continues to grow, with Docker the overwhelming container technology of choice, enterprise adoption of containers in actual production environments remains relatively low, a new survey of the container adoption confirms. The good news for ...
SAP HANA Gets an IoT Upgrade
June 16th, 2015 Comments Off on SAP HANA Gets an IoT Upgrade
The latest version of the SAP HANA in-memory database and application platform rolled out this week predictably emphasizes big data analytics while adding greater connectivity to the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). SAP said Tuesday (June 16) its latest ...
IBM Goes All-In With Apache Spark
June 15th, 2015 (1)
IBM has jumped on the Apache Spark bandwagon, revealing it would throw its considerable weight behind the open source big data project that has been gaining momentum over the last year. IBM said Monday (June 15) it would integrate ...
Dell Moves to Push SDN to the Cloud
June 12th, 2015 Comments Off on Dell Moves to Push SDN to the Cloud
Dell said this week it is partnering with up-and-coming software-defined networking specialist Pluribus Networks to accelerate SDN adoption in the cloud. The partners said Thursday (June 11) they would seek to speed SDN deployment by demonstrating that its value ...
Virtustream, Future EMC Unit, Gains U.S. Cloud Approval
June 11th, 2015 Comments Off on Virtustream, Future EMC Unit, Gains U.S. Cloud Approval
Add Virtustream Inc., the cloud services and software provider acquired in May by EMC Corp., to the growing list of potential U.S. government cloud vendors. Washington-based Virtustream said Wednesday (June 10) it has gained provisional authority to supply cloud ...
Cisco Fills Out Intercloud Fabric Ecosystem
June 10th, 2015 Comments Off on Cisco Fills Out Intercloud Fabric Ecosystem
Cisco Systems this week rolled out what is says are the final pieces of its Intercloud Fabric that targets the growing enterprise shift to hybrid cloud infrastructure while allowing workload management "from a single pane of glass." The networking ...