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).

EMC Boosts Cloud Strategy With Virtustream Deal

May 26th, 2015 Comments Off

EMC Corp. moved to flesh out its managed cloud services business with the acquisition of enterprise cloud software and services provider Virtustream in a deal valued at approximately $1.2 billion. The acquisition is also being portrayed as "elevating" EMC's ...

Google ‘Clarifies’ Position on Docker, Promotes Choice

May 22nd, 2015 Comments Off

Google moved this week to quell industry concerns that it was throwing its considerable weight behind an alternative application container format by reiterating support for Docker and noting that it has "invested heavily" in the container technology. In a ...

IBM Leverages OpenStack for Hybrid Workloads

May 21st, 2015 Comments Off

IBM said during this week's OpenStack Summit it would shift those open-source services to its SoftLayer public cloud infrastructure, allowing customers to move OpenStack workloads across hybrid clouds. IBM said its OpenStack Cloud Services would allow developers to launch ...

The ‘API Economy’ is Upon Us

May 20th, 2015 Comments Off

To hear the experts (or those with a financial stake) tell it, application programming interfaces, ubiquitous APIs, are the glue that will tie it all together when everything but your coffee cup is connected to the cloud via chunks ...

Intel Looks to Secure Containers

May 19th, 2015 Comments Off

The world's largest chipmaker is entering the application container fray this week with the introduction of Intel Clear Containers, an outgrowth of its lightweight Linux operating system development effort that is fine-tuned to the Intel processor architecture. Imad Sousou, ...

OpenStack Gets Bare-Metal, Storage Support

May 18th, 2015 Comments Off

The OpenStack Summit in Vancouver kicking off this week will showcase a host a growing list of initiatives aimed at extending cloud services capabilities based on the open-source cloud operating system platform. First out of the box is the ...

IoT Caveats for Chip Makers

May 15th, 2015 Comments Off

If nothing else, the Internet of Things certainly does generate a lot of research reports. The latest comes from the respected management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. that zeroes in on the semiconductor industry's substantial stakes in the success ...

Data Breach Costs Could Hit $2T by 2019

May 14th, 2015 Comments Off

Data breaches focused primarily on "traditional computing devices" rather than emerging connected devices are expected to increase the cost of cyber crime to an estimated $2.1 trillion by 2019, according to a new study of enterprise threats and mitigation ...

Samsung Enters IoT Fray with Dev Platform

May 13th, 2015 Comments Off

The other shoe has dropped in the race to define the conceptual framework called the Internet of Things as technology juggernaut Samsung Electronics unveiled its vision that is built around a cloud-based development platform Speaking at the IOT World ...

IBM Servers, Storage Target Hybrid Cloud

May 12th, 2015 Comments Off

Fleshing out it hybrid cloud strategy, IBM rolled out a batch of servers, storage software and other services during a company event this week that target the growing number of customers integrating existing systems with big data and other ...