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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).Pivotal Cloud Foundry Targets Mobile App Development
August 20th, 2014 Comments Off on Pivotal Cloud Foundry Targets Mobile App Development
Expanded enterprise mobile services launched by Pivotal, the enterprise platform-as-a-service specialist spun out of VMware, are intended to help developers and cloud operators speed the delivery a range of mobile applications. The company said its Pivotal CF product offers ...
Nexenta Object Storage Targets OpenStack, Big Data
August 19th, 2014 Comments Off on Nexenta Object Storage Targets OpenStack, Big Data
Software-defined storage specialist Nexenta launched the first version of it block and object storage package designed to provide inline data compression and deduplication on petabyte-scale clusters. The scale-out storage solution targets OpenStack and big data infrastructures, the company said. ...
Stat Czar Vince Gennaro Harnesses Baseball’s Mountain Of Data
August 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Stat Czar Vince Gennaro Harnesses Baseball’s Mountain Of Data
The amount of data being captured, stored, and analyzed during a Major League Baseball (MLB) game has, like players' salaries and the net worth of big league franchises, exploded. From the late 1860s to 2003, the total amount of ...
SUSE Hooks Ceph, VMware To Cloud 4 OpenStack
August 13th, 2014 Comments Off on SUSE Hooks Ceph, VMware To Cloud 4 OpenStack
The latest version of SUSE Cloud, the variant of the OpenStack cloud controller developed by commercial Linux distributor SUSE Linux, adds support for the Ceph distributed storage system along with VMware capabilities. In rolling out SUSE Cloud 4, the ...
Platform9 Emerges From Stealth To Unify Virtualization Management
August 12th, 2014 Comments Off on Platform9 Emerges From Stealth To Unify Virtualization Management
The cloud ecosystem continues to expand as a group of ex-VMware engineers have emerged from stealth mode to launch a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform aimed at managing private clouds. Platform9, based in Sunnyvale, California, also announced its first funding ...
Developers Churn Out More Cloud Apps, But Security Concerns Linger
August 11th, 2014 (1)
A market survey of more than 400 public cloud developers found that they are releasing applications with greater frequency, the cloud creates more opportunities for collaboration and that security is often an afterthought in the public cloud. Market researcher ...
Zadara Offers Pay-As-You-Go Virtual Storage
August 7th, 2014 Comments Off on Zadara Offers Pay-As-You-Go Virtual Storage
The list of Things-as-a-Service keeps growing. Zadara Storage has rolled out the latest entry with the introduction of On-Premise-as-a-Service (OPaaS), targeting private clouds that include managed storage area network and network-attached storage. The twist here is a flexible "pay-as-you-go" ...
VoltDB Database Put Through The Paces On Clouds
August 6th, 2014 Comments Off on VoltDB Database Put Through The Paces On Clouds
One of the buzzwords for users of cloud services refers to the increasing need for speed and the velocity of data. Datasets are not only growing in size but for many applications must be manipulated in real time. Hence, ...
IBM Chip Talks Stall as Focus Shifts to R&D
August 5th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM Chip Talks Stall as Focus Shifts to R&D
IBM Microelectronics' fire sale of its flagging semiconductor unit has yet hit another snag after talks between the company and potential suitor Globalfoundries reportedly broke down over how much IBM would pay to get rid of its chip business. ...
MLB Goes Virtual As Stat Apps Enter The Lineup
August 4th, 2014 Comments Off on MLB Goes Virtual As Stat Apps Enter The Lineup
The cloud and networking technology behind the business of Major League Baseball is increasingly based on virtualization that is replacing the monolithic, physical infrastructure built up over the last decade to stream games, stats, and other new services to ...