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).
Red Hat Looks To Build OpenShift Momentum
September 24th, 2014
Leveraging the "momentum" of its commercial platform-as-a-service, Red Hat says it is looking to expand its OpenShift Online service in Europe with a new hosting offering in Ireland. Red Hat is boasting rapid uptake of its OpenShift Online service ...
Verizon Cloud Interconnect Adds AWS
September 23rd, 2014
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions unit is expanding connections to its private IP cloud interconnect service to include Amazon Web Services. Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service currently works with Microsoft Azure and Verizon Cloud. The addition of AWS connections is ...
EMC Seeking Merger Partner?
September 22nd, 2014
Storage specialist EMC is looking for another merger partner while exploring other options after negotiations with rival Hewlett-Packard on a blockbuster corporate marriage reportedly broke down in recent weeks. Unconfirmed reports surfaced in mid-September that EMC was considering selling ...
Harvard Biz Survey Touts IT ‘Pioneers’
September 22nd, 2014
A new report by the august Harvard Business Review and its corporate sponsor Verizon sings the praises of early adoption of technologies like cloud computing as the quickest path to business success. More than half (57 percent) of 672 ...
U.S. Government Cloud Spending Exceeding Forecasts
September 19th, 2014
As the federal government stumbles toward cloud deployment, an industry watcher reckons that cloud computing nevertheless represents a healthy 5 percent of federal IT spending. The growth is being led by private cloud deployment. IDC Government Insights concludes in ...
Ellison Steps Down As Oracle CEO
September 18th, 2014
Larry Ellison, the brash Silicon Valley entrepreneur and college drop out who built Oracle into a software and enterprise computing powerhouse, will step down as the company's CEO and assume the dual roles of board chairman and chief technology ...
Cisco Advances ‘Intercloud’ With Metacloud Deal
September 17th, 2014
Cisco Systems is acquiring privately held Metacloud, which deploys and operates private clouds based on the OpenStack cloud controller. The acquisition is intended to accelerate Cisco's intercloud strategy aimed at connecting private, public, and hybrid clouds. Financial terms of ...
WaveMaker Leverages Docker for App Delivery
September 16th, 2014
Application development and delivery software unveiled by apps specialist WaveMaker leverages Docker container technology to help improve management of application infrastructures, or what the company calls "application platforms-as-a-service." The company said its WaveMaker Enterprise applications platform uses enterprise-scale technologies ...
HSGT Unveils Cloud Datacenter Storage Tools
September 10th, 2014
Enterprise storage specialist HGST unveiled a slew of new flash products as the Western Digital unit seeks to fashion of "flash fabric" that promises to help move datacenter storage closer to computing and applications. While its latest PCIe SSD ...
Docker Containers Get a Delivery Upgrade
September 10th, 2014
An ecosystem is beginning to emerge around Docker containers, this time focusing on speeding software development and code delivery. The latest example is an updated version of a delivery platform intended to help enterprise software teams speed adoption of ...
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