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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).Russia Launches ARM Chip Effort To End X86 Dependence
June 25th, 2014 (1)
The Russian government is reportedly preparing to say "nyet" to American-made microprocessors, planning instead to replace Intel and AMD chips with a homegrown CPU based on an alternative architecture offered by ARM Holdings. According to Russian media reports, Russia's ...
Integrated Systems Rankings Led by VCE, Cisco, Oracle
June 24th, 2014 Comments Off on Integrated Systems Rankings Led by VCE, Cisco, Oracle
An emerging enterprise category of integrated systems that combine servers, storage and network infrastructure is led by the converged infrastructure alliance VCE, according to the latest in a series of "Magic Quadrant" rankings by market researcher Gartner. VCE, which ...
PCI Express Expert PLX Acquired By Avago
June 24th, 2014 Comments Off on PCI Express Expert PLX Acquired By Avago
Analog chip developer Avago Technologies continued its foray into the storage market and possible the server market with the acquisition of PLX Technology in a cash deal valued at about $309 million. Singapore-based Avago, which has offices in Silicon ...
Debate: How Many Open Source Platforms Are Enough?
June 23rd, 2014 (1)
Representatives of competing open source cloud controllers debated the merits of each and whether multiple open cloud platforms are even needed. The platform debate often comes down to which application-programming interface (API) is supported along with overall platform stability ...
Google Rethinks The Datacenter
June 19th, 2014 Comments Off on Google Rethinks The Datacenter
With its vastly profitable search engine and advertising empire, it might seem that Google no longer has to worry about controlling capital expenditures. This is not the case. Google obsesses about infrastructure costs. But it does have the luxury ...
Red Hat Buys OpenStack Integrator eNovance
June 18th, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Buys OpenStack Integrator eNovance
Red Hat is acquiring privately-held eNovance, an open source cloud computing service provider, for about 50 million euros ($67.8 million) in cash along with 20 million euros ($27.1 million) in Red Hat common stock. The deal is subject to adjustments ...
Google, AWS Clouds Embrace Flash For Storage
June 17th, 2014 (1)
The transition to flash storage in the cloud is gaining steam as rivals Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) each introduced solid state drive upgrades to their cloud platforms. The deployments underscore how SSD technology is entering the mainstream ...
IBM Opens Fed Datacenters in Dallas, DC Area
June 17th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM Opens Fed Datacenters in Dallas, DC Area
IBM is opening two new datacenters that will use software and infrastructure from recently acquired SoftLayer to serve the federal government market. Consistent with its application software push, IBM also announced an "acceleration program" designed to help federal agencies ...
Red Hat Ties KVM Virtualization To RHEL 7
June 16th, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Ties KVM Virtualization To RHEL 7
Days after releasing the latest version of its flagship open source operating system, Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization suite, its commercial implementation of the KVM hypervisor that is more tightly integrated with the ...
Cisco Sees Cloud Apps Fueling ‘Zettabyte Era’
June 13th, 2014 Comments Off on Cisco Sees Cloud Apps Fueling ‘Zettabyte Era’
Brace yourself for the Zettabyte Era. That forecast comes from networking equipment giant Cisco Systems, which has released its latest Visual Networking Index that foresees global Internet Protocol traffic growing three-fold through 2018 to a hard-to-get-your-brain-around 1.6 zettabytes, or ...