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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).Red Hat Upgrades Satellite Management, Hints at Container Tools
September 10th, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Upgrades Satellite Management, Hints at Container Tools
Red Hat continues to expand its cloud management toolkit with the release of its Satellite 6 suite as the open-source specialist sharpens its focus on areas like subscription management and underlying content distribution features for the datacenter and cloud. ...
Intel Wants To Reshape Datacenters With Xeon E5
September 8th, 2014 Comments Off on Intel Wants To Reshape Datacenters With Xeon E5
Intel rolled out its "Haswell" generation of Xeon E5-2600 processors at its developers' forum by positioning the third version of the chip as the engine that would help in "re-architecting the datacenter" as a dynamic, automated, and software-defined environment ...
Cisco Gets The Lead Out With ‘Fast IT’
September 4th, 2014 Comments Off on Cisco Gets The Lead Out With ‘Fast IT’
Cisco Systems wants to ride the data-driven wave dubbed the Internet of Everything to take its Unified Computing System architecture from the datacenter to the networked sensors that the company estimates will collect 40 percent of data by 2020. ...
Navy Looks To Float ‘Tactical Cloud’
September 3rd, 2014 (1)
As government agencies edge closer to cloud adoption, one of the military services is attempting to take a more proactive approach to leveraging cloud technology to deliver tactical applications needed to handle growing volumes of sensor and targeting data ...
Red Hat, Cisco Prepare Containers For Prime Time
September 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat, Cisco Prepare Containers For Prime Time
Cisco Systems and Red Hat are joining forces to ready Linux application containers along with Docker for prime time. In a relatively detailed blog post co-authored by Cisco and Red Hat engineers, the partners noted they have been working ...
Red Hat Seeks To Ease OpenStack Deployments
August 27th, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Seeks To Ease OpenStack Deployments
Two updates to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 include an improved installer and greater availability capabilities that are aimed at developers and IT administrators seeking greater reliability as they scale RHEL OpenStack deployments. The updates rolled ...
CliQr Manages Applications Across Hybrid Clouds
August 26th, 2014 Comments Off on CliQr Manages Applications Across Hybrid Clouds
As more hybrid clouds are deployed, the cloud and workload management ecosystem continues to expand. Case in point is hybrid cloud management specialist CliQr Technologies that this week rolled out new features for its CloudCenter management platform, including "drag ...
Big Data Tools Target Datacenter Performance
August 25th, 2014 Comments Off on Big Data Tools Target Datacenter Performance
Among the growing number of uses for the products of big data analysis is the ability to trouble shoot datacenter performance and narrower parameters like storage. The big data vendor CloudPhysics comes to the VMworld event this week in ...
DOD Certifies AWS Cloud for ‘Sensitive’ Data
August 22nd, 2014 Comments Off on DOD Certifies AWS Cloud for ‘Sensitive’ Data
Amazon Web Services got the green light this week from the federal government to begin rolling out cloud services designed to handle "sensitive" workloads. AWS has announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Defense Department's enterprise cloud ...
Cascade of Service Outages Plague Azure Cloud
August 21st, 2014 Comments Off on Cascade of Service Outages Plague Azure Cloud
There has been no silver lining behind the Microsoft Azure cloud service during August, according to an outfit that tracks cloud outages and downtime. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Service performance improved during the second quarter of this year. CloudEndure said ...