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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).New Tools From AWS And A Price Cut
August 1st, 2014 Comments Off on New Tools From AWS And A Price Cut
Amazon Web Services said it is extending its Domain Name Service called Amazon Route 53 to include support for domain name registration along with management and geographical DNS. The cloud giant also rolled out enhancements to its AWS Trusted ...
IBM, Carrier Partners Claim Elastic Networking Advance
July 30th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM, Carrier Partners Claim Elastic Networking Advance
Researchers from AT&T, IBM, and Applied Communication Sciences said they have built a prototype network that promises to reduce the set up time for inter-cloud connectivity from days to seconds. The scientists said their elastic cloud-to-cloud networking scheme could ...
SDN Is Making Inroads In Datacenters
July 29th, 2014 Comments Off on SDN Is Making Inroads In Datacenters
Software-defined networking is coming to the datacenter despite lingering concerns about the maturity of the technology, according to an upbeat forecast that predicts SDN deployments will begin in 2015. Infonetics Research forecasts that 87 percent of North American-based enterprises ...
GigaSpaces Updates Cloudify With App Orchestration
July 29th, 2014 Comments Off on GigaSpaces Updates Cloudify With App Orchestration
GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of middleware designed to ease application deployment in the cloud, has revamped its Cloudify orchestration platform to help automate management of applications once they have been deployed. New York-based GigaSpaces said its Cloudify 3.0 version ...
Rackspace Adds MySQL Services, More Databases Coming
July 28th, 2014 Comments Off on Rackspace Adds MySQL Services, More Databases Coming
Rackspace has expanded its managed cloud services, adding two open source variants of the MySQL database along with plans to add another database to its support list by mid-August. MariaDB and Pecona Server are being added to Rackspace's list ...
RackWare Adds Disaster Recovery To Cloud Management
July 28th, 2014 (1)
RackWare, the five-year-old cloud management startup, has rolled out the third version of its disaster recovery module designed to move existing IT infrastructure to the cloud with minimum hassle. RackWare Management Module, or RMM 3.0, aims to reduce the ...
Azure Cloud Lifts Microsoft Revenues
July 24th, 2014 Comments Off on Azure Cloud Lifts Microsoft Revenues
Microsoft's otherwise lackluster quarterly earnings report, weighed down by the closing of its deal to buy the Nokia smartphone business, nevertheless showed sustained growth in its Azure cloud. Revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter ending June 30 totaled $23.38 ...
SAP Teams With Cloud Foundry, OpenStack
July 23rd, 2014 Comments Off on SAP Teams With Cloud Foundry, OpenStack
SAP, the German enterprise software giant, is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation and OpenStack Foundation open source communities. The vendor also rolled out at an open source convention in Portland, Oregon, two cloud-based tools – one for SAP HANA ...
MIT, Facebook Create Low-Latency Fastpass TCP Replacement
July 22nd, 2014 (2)
Data scientists from MIT and Facebook have proposed a centralized datacenter network that chucks the traditional Internet architecture used for packet transmission and path selection, replacing it with a centralized "arbiter" of data transmission that would decide when and ...
Big Data Prefers Bare Metal
July 18th, 2014 Comments Off on Big Data Prefers Bare Metal
Benchmark testing of a database running on bare metal versus virtual public cloud servers found that the physical machines outperformed the virtual machines in terms of throughput and latency when running different big data workloads. The comparative performance report ...