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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).Cloud Workloads To Dominate The Datacenter
November 5th, 2014 Comments Off on Cloud Workloads To Dominate The Datacenter
The sky appears to be the only limit for the continuing growth of cloud traffic, workloads, and storage in datacenters, according to the latest industry forecast, this one by cloud vendor Cisco Systems. The annual Cisco Global Cloud Index ...
BMW And OpenStack Drive Each Other
November 4th, 2014 Comments Off on BMW And OpenStack Drive Each Other
In inexorable march of software technology is disrupting entire industries as the flexibility of software-defined systems ranging from storage to networking redirects the very economy that helped create the disruption. Hence, argues the executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, ...
Forecasts Call For Cloud Burst Through 2018
November 3rd, 2014 (1)
The inexorable shift to the cloud is beginning to take on the features of a storm front, according to the latest survey of the cloud services market. Indeed, industry watcher IDC forecasts that public IT cloud services will account ...
Security Remains A Drag On Cloud Adoption
November 1st, 2014 Comments Off on Security Remains A Drag On Cloud Adoption
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 ...
Net Performance A Growing Concern In Cloud Deployments
October 31st, 2014 (1)
As enterprise cloud deployments continue to rise, so too do concerns about network performance, concludes an enterprise cloud study by the largest of network providers, Verizon. In its annual cloud market study, the giant carrier highlighted network performance as ...
Container Tech Added to Red Hat App Kit
October 30th, 2014 Comments Off on Container Tech Added to Red Hat App Kit
The third installment of a batch of open source software from Red Hat includes development tools, dynamic languages, and databases along with new container technology. Red Hat stressed in releasing Software Collections 1.2 that the toolset is on a ...
Let’s Go (To the Cloud) Mets!
October 30th, 2014 Comments Off on Let’s Go (To the Cloud) Mets!
Big-time professional sports are increasingly turning to networking and analytics technologies as they seek to enhance the "fan experience." New, publicly financed sports palaces now come with networking features designed to connect fans to their team, allowing team owners ...
Platform Cloud As Tech Incubator
October 29th, 2014 (1)
The OpenShift cloud application and development platform is being extended to technology startups with an eye toward eliminating some of the "infrastructure pain points" faced by harried new companies. That is one of the stated goals of Red Hat's ...
ARM Servers To Get Muscle From Microsoft?
October 27th, 2014 Comments Off on ARM Servers To Get Muscle From Microsoft?
Microsoft is reportedly – and not unexpectedly – developing a variant of the Windows Server operating system that runs on ARM server processors. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has a test version of the Windows Server operating system running on ...
Business Growth, Storage Drive Datacenter Expansion
October 24th, 2014 Comments Off on Business Growth, Storage Drive Datacenter Expansion
Most medium-sized enterprises surveyed in a datacenter demand study said they intend to go with a mix of on-premise, outsourced, co-located, hosted and cloud-based IT operations. The survey also found that storage growth prompted by a business uptick was ...