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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).AWS DynamoDB Adds JSON Support, Flex Scaling
October 9th, 2014 Comments Off on AWS DynamoDB Adds JSON Support, Flex Scaling
Amazon Web Services is expanding its DynamoDB database service with document support along with flexible scaling of larger items. It is also expanding the amount of database capacity available as part of AWS Free Tier. Specifically, AWS said it ...
Chip Designs Might Be On Table In IBM-Glofo Talks
October 8th, 2014 Comments Off on Chip Designs Might Be On Table In IBM-Glofo Talks
IBM may again be moving closer to a long-anticipated exit from the semiconductor manufacturing business. According to a report in Bloomberg, IBM and Globalfoundries have resumed talks that broke off during the summer aimed at agreeing on an amount ...
NTT Shifts Gears To SDN Services
October 7th, 2014 Comments Off on NTT Shifts Gears To SDN Services
Japan's NTT Communications is going all-in for software-defined networking technology as a means of managing web and cloud-based VPNs, servers, and network segments in virtual servers. Tokyo-based NTT, Japan's largest telecommunications carrier, said the phased SDN upgrades would enable ...
Docker Boosts Container Ecosystem With Koality Deal
October 7th, 2014 Comments Off on Docker Boosts Container Ecosystem With Koality Deal
Docker, the company behind the eponymous software container technology for Linux, is fleshing out its application management platform with the acquisition of integration software developer Koality. San Francisco-based Docker did not disclose the price it paid for the company. ...
Uncle Sam Struggles With Datacenter, Cloud Efforts
October 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on Uncle Sam Struggles With Datacenter, Cloud Efforts
The federal government, in its wisdom, has been trying to consolidate its hodgepodge network of datacenters. The goal is to gain efficiencies in the government operations and, more importantly, save taxpayer money. A pair of reports by the U.S. ...
Cloud Price War Resumes With Google Cuts
October 1st, 2014 Comments Off on Cloud Price War Resumes With Google Cuts
Another week, another round of cloud computing price cuts. The latest comes from Google, which announced today across-the-board 10 percent reductions in all Google Compute Engine instance types. The cuts include all regions and are effective immediately, Google said. ...
Lenovo Closes IBM Server Deal, Eyes Expansion
October 1st, 2014 Comments Off on Lenovo Closes IBM Server Deal, Eyes Expansion
As it closes its deal to acquire IBM's System x X86 server business, Chinese computer giant Lenovo is setting an ambitious goal of $5 billion in server revenues in its first year despite what the company acknowledged is "some ...
Price Erosion, Weak Demand Rattle Storage Market
September 30th, 2014 Comments Off on Price Erosion, Weak Demand Rattle Storage Market
Weak demand continues to slow the global external disk storage market as storage prices continue a steady decline despite the inexorable rise of big data. The upshot is stiffening competition among storage industry leaders, according to recent quarterly storage ...
Cisco Fleshes Out $1B Intercloud Strategy
September 29th, 2014 Comments Off on Cisco Fleshes Out $1B Intercloud Strategy
Cisco Systems is investing $1 billion to help partners and customers speed adoption of its Intercloud Fabric technology. The investment is part of an expansion of the OpenStack-based interconnection technology to 30 new companies operating 250 datacenters in 50 ...
‘Use-or-Lose’ Budgeting Fuels U.S. IT Failures
September 25th, 2014 Comments Off on ‘Use-or-Lose’ Budgeting Fuels U.S. IT Failures
It's the end of the federal government's fiscal year, and that means government agencies will go on a use-it-or-lose-it spending spree before midnight on Sept. 30. Much of that last minute spending will go toward IT contracts that, according ...