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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).Nadella Pep Talk Stresses Microsoft ‘Ecosystem’
July 16th, 2014 Comments Off on Nadella Pep Talk Stresses Microsoft ‘Ecosystem’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a pep talk to the company's partner network this week in which he sought to flesh out the company's strategy for a "mobile-first, cloud-first world." Addressing the Microsoft Partner Conference in Washington, DC, Nadella ...
Rackspace Unveils ‘Managed Cloud’ Strategy
July 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Rackspace Unveils ‘Managed Cloud’ Strategy
Cloud services provider Rackspace is unveiling a "managed cloud" strategy built around new service levels and a pricing model aimed at businesses looking for single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms, through a hybrid model. The ...
Microsoft Storage Appliances Push Data To Azure
July 10th, 2014 Comments Off on Microsoft Storage Appliances Push Data To Azure
Microsoft is rolling out the latest series of its Azure storage appliances with an eye toward helping customers manage data growth while forestalling the seemingly endless cycle of buying additional storage. Hence, Microsoft is promoting its StorSimple 8000 series ...
Interxion Gets Fast Links To AWS, Microsoft Clouds
July 9th, 2014 Comments Off on Interxion Gets Fast Links To AWS, Microsoft Clouds
Interxion, the Dutch cloud and datacenter services specialist, said its customers could link to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure from any of its 37 datacenters. The private connections are facilitated through Amazon's Direct Connect partners and Microsoft Azure ...
EMC Buys TwinStrata To Link VMAX Arrays To Clouds
July 8th, 2014 Comments Off on EMC Buys TwinStrata To Link VMAX Arrays To Clouds
As part of the release of its VMAX3 release, EMC is acquiring cloud gateway startup TwinStrata. EMC said its new embedded cloud access would be delivered through TwinStrata's "cloud tiering" technology, called CloudArray. TwinStrata is based in Natick, Massachusetts. Terms ...
Amazon T2 Cloud Instances With Burst Capability
July 7th, 2014 Comments Off on Amazon T2 Cloud Instances With Burst Capability
Amazon Web Services is shifting down market with a new Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) instance type designed for web and database applications that benefit from a performance burst but don't require sustained high CPU horsepower. AWS said pricing ...
Facebook Datacenters Boosting Swedish Economy
July 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on Facebook Datacenters Boosting Swedish Economy
Facebook says its first European datacenter in northern Sweden is generating jobs as well as conserving energy. The social media giant broke ground on the facility in Luleå, Sweden in 2011. The site is near the Arctic Circle. Because ...
Satellite 6 Adds More Control For Red Hat Linux
July 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on Satellite 6 Adds More Control For Red Hat Linux
Red Hat has followed up the roll out of the latest version of its mainstay Enterprise Linux operating system with the beta release of the Red Hat Satellite 6 management suite. The management system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...
CIA Testing AWS Cloud for Security Holes
July 1st, 2014 Comments Off on CIA Testing AWS Cloud for Security Holes
The CIA's chief information officer provided an update on the spy agency's plans to roll out private cloud services – one would guess extremely private – during an industry symposium sponsored by its cloud vendor, Amazon Web Services (AWS). ...
Cloud 2.0 Promises To Transform, Disrupt Industries
June 30th, 2014 Comments Off on Cloud 2.0 Promises To Transform, Disrupt Industries
The growing computational power and pervasiveness of the cloud is generating new applications and services that could transform industries and create new ones, a sunny survey of the future of cloud computing predicts. The annual survey conducted by North ...