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).

Startup Hedvig Emerges With Storage Platform

March 25th, 2015 Comments Off

Hedvig Inc., a software-defined storage startup emerging from stealth mode this week after three years of development, is rolling out a distributed storage platform it touts as helping enterprises run virtualized infrastructure as easily as a public cloud service ...

Shift to Hybrid Cloud Quickens, Survey Finds

March 24th, 2015 Comments Off

A new industry survey throws some cold water on bullish forecasts that have public cloud adoption doubling by the end of 2016. Rather, the Open Data Center Alliance said it found a continuing preference among its members for internal ...

HP Expands Open Source Cloud Push

March 24th, 2015 Comments Off

When Hewlett-Packard rolled out its Helion cloud infrastructure last May, it pledged to invest $1 billion over two years to deliver converged infrastructure geared toward hybrid IT platforms. Making good on that pledge, the company announced Helion Rack on ...

Google Splits Difference with Nearline Storage

March 23rd, 2015 Comments Off

Google Cloud Platform's new archival storage offering called Nearline appears to target the same "cold storage" market eyed when Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a similar service called Glacier in 2012. Nearline is described as Google Cloud Storage "suitable ...

U.S. Enlists Facebook Vet as IT Chief

March 20th, 2015 Comments Off

Stung by a series of high-profile IT foul-ups related to implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the roll out of the healthcare.gov web site, the Obama administration has been working steadily to bring some adult supervision to its ...

Service Providers Jump on DevOps Bandwagon

March 19th, 2015 Comments Off

The rush to fill what many see as a DevOps gap continues as the growing need for development skills shifts from the datacenter to the enterprise. A recent study released by market researcher Gartner is being widely cited as ...

EMC Expands Open Source Collaboration

March 19th, 2015 Comments Off

When the Cloud Foundry Foundation was launched last December, the open platform-as-a-service proponent also rolled out a new approach to open source development called "Dojo." The idea was to train developers and put their new application projects on a ...

Quanta Cloud Raises Server Ante with GPUs

March 18th, 2015 (2)

Quanta Cloud Technology, the server and storage unit of the Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer, has over the last year been targeting the high end of the enterprise datacenter market. The cloud vendor showed up at this week's Nvidia GPU ...

Cloud TV, Anyone?

March 18th, 2015 Comments Off

There has been plenty of hype around the concept of smashing the old cable and satellite TV models via video streaming and other services. Just this week, word leaked out that Apple is in talks with broadcast and cable ...

Google’s Roster of Cloud Interconnect Providers Grows

March 17th, 2015 (1)

Google Cloud Platform has added another service provider, Global Capacity, to its list of carrier interconnect providers as the roll out of enterprise hybrid cloud architectures gathers momentum. Chicago-based Global Capacity claimed Tuesday (March 17) it is the first ...