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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).Pentagon Readies New Cloud Plan
December 1st, 2014 Comments Off on Pentagon Readies New Cloud Plan
The Defense Department is preparing to issue a new strategy for procuring cloud services that reportedly downgrades the role of its current "cloud broker," giving more flexibility to individual military components. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has acted ...
HP Servers, Storage Decline As Split Begins
November 25th, 2014 Comments Off on HP Servers, Storage Decline As Split Begins
Hewlett-Packard reported declining fiscal year and quarterly revenues as it implements a restructuring plan for breaking into an enterprise business and a PC and printer businesses. HP reported fourth quarter net revenues of $28.4 billion, down 2 percent from ...
A Cure For Risky Storage Upgrades
November 20th, 2014 Comments Off on A Cure For Risky Storage Upgrades
The latest version of storage services specialist SolidFire's Element OS adds multi-tenant networking along with user features the company said can be used to consolidate a mix of application workloads in the datacenter. SolidFire said this week its Element ...
SUSE Rolls Up Cloud, Storage, And HANA for Startups
November 19th, 2014 Comments Off on SUSE Rolls Up Cloud, Storage, And HANA for Startups
Enterprise Linux vendor SUSE announced a batch of initiatives this week at a company event, including a "bring your own subscription" option and a preview of new storage offering. SUSE also said it will back an initiative to help ...
DataCore Storage Platform Scales To 64 PB
November 19th, 2014 Comments Off on DataCore Storage Platform Scales To 64 PB
Software-defined storage specialist DataCore Software said the latest release of its storage services platform could double the scale of hyper-converged storage systems to 64 nodes while significantly bumping up the performance of write-heavy workloads. The company released a new ...
AWS, Intel Collaborate On New Haswell Xeon Instances
November 14th, 2014 Comments Off on AWS, Intel Collaborate On New Haswell Xeon Instances
New instances unveiled by Amazon Web Services this week based on a customized version of Intel's Xeon E5 processor reflect what the cloud provider emphasized is a steady increase in the "intensity" of workloads running on the cloud. AWS ...
OpenShift Upgrade Automates App Deployment
November 10th, 2014 Comments Off on OpenShift Upgrade Automates App Deployment
The latest version of Red Hat's OpenShift Enterprise has come out along with a pair of new services focuses on integrating applications with existing datacenter infrastructure. With the latest release of OpenShift Enterprise, the open source vendor also it ...
Security Remains A Drag On Cloud Adoption
November 10th, 2014 (2)
Despite surging cloud usage rates, security concerns remain the leading barrier to wider adoption of cloud computing as IT decision makers cope with a shortage of reliable safeguards to prevent security breaches to their cloud networks. Meanwhile, the annual ...
Verizon Gains Federal Cloud Approval
November 6th, 2014 Comments Off on Verizon Gains Federal Cloud Approval
Verizon said this week its Enterprise Solutions unit has joined a growing list of vendors gaining the authority to provide cloud services to federal agencies. Verizon joins Amazon Web Services and others in gaining operational authority under the Federal ...
Wyoming Waste Powers Microsoft Datacenter
November 6th, 2014 (1)
As efforts to make datacenters more energy efficient hit a wall, Microsoft is taking a new approach: using methane biogas from an adjacent wastewater treatment facility along with fuel cell technology to move a prototype datacenter in Wyoming off ...