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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).Public Cloud In, Virtualization Out by 2019
April 3rd, 2015 Comments Off on Public Cloud In, Virtualization Out by 2019
Enterprises are leaving behind virtualization and rapidly advancing toward internal and hosted private clouds as organizations drive toward more innovation, more efficient infrastructures, and more business-oriented IT departments. By 2019, 42 percent of businesses will rely on on-premise plus ...
Taking the Pain Out of OpenStack Upgrades
April 2nd, 2015 Comments Off on Taking the Pain Out of OpenStack Upgrades
The tenth release of OpenStack, "Juno," last October, added a batch of new enterprise features aimed at boosting stability and performance and extending the reach of the open source tool to telecommunications and service provider datacenters. Those features included ...
Investors Flock to Cloud Security Providers
April 1st, 2015 Comments Off on Investors Flock to Cloud Security Providers
Investors, including major cloud players, continue to pour money into cloud security and automation startups as the need grows to protect sensitive data and defend cloud infrastructure. Among the beneficiaries is Hytrust Inc., the cloud security specialist based in ...
Puppet Tool Expands to Manage Docker, AWS
March 31st, 2015 Comments Off on Puppet Tool Expands to Manage Docker, AWS
As the line between datacenter management and DevOps continues to blur, more tools like Puppet and Chef are emerging to help automate management of physical and virtual servers, network infrastructure and cloud deployments. A new generation of provisioning tools ...
IBM to Invest $3B to Bring IoT to the Enterprise
March 31st, 2015 Comments Off on IBM to Invest $3B to Bring IoT to the Enterprise
The money keeps pouring into the thing called the Internet of Things. IBM joined a growing list of technology giants this week in announcing plans to invest $3 billion over the next four years to "connect the Internet of ...
Intel-Altera Deal Would Boost IoT Efforts
March 30th, 2015 Comments Off on Intel-Altera Deal Would Boost IoT Efforts
If, as reported over the weekend, Intel Corp. moves to acquire programmable logic and embedded processor specialist Altera Corp., industry watchers predict it would boost the world's largest chip maker's Internet of Things efforts while solidifying its hold on ...
Red Hat Reports Double-Digit Growth
March 27th, 2015 Comments Off on Red Hat Reports Double-Digit Growth
The overall health and vibrancy of the enterprise technology sector and the open source community in general appears to be reflected in the financial results of one of its leading lights, Red Hat Inc. The Linux vendor reported double-digit ...
Software-Defined Storage is Being Redefined
March 27th, 2015 Comments Off on Software-Defined Storage is Being Redefined
If it's true that there has been very little technology innovation in the development of enterprise storage technology and that current technologies are failing to keep pace with the rise of data analytics, then this week showed that a ...
Flash Memory Goes 3D
March 26th, 2015 Comments Off on Flash Memory Goes 3D
As traditional NAND flash storage technology approaches the end of the line, chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology jointly began investigating new approaches to cell design that could be leveraged to dramatically improve storage capacity, performance and reliability. Two-dimensional ...
Startup Rubik Seeks to Disrupt Data Management Market
March 26th, 2015 Comments Off on Startup Rubik Seeks to Disrupt Data Management Market
Cloud infrastructure startups are popping up these days in Silicon Valley like spring daffodils. The latest to emerge from stealth mode is Rubrik Inc., which rolled out a converged data management platform this week that eliminates the need for ...