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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).Nimble Beefs Up Performance Of Hybrid Arrays
June 12th, 2014 Comments Off on Nimble Beefs Up Performance Of Hybrid Arrays
Nimble Storage, one of the several storage upstarts that has gone public recently, has unveiled a new high-end hybrid array and flash-only shelves that boost the capacity and performance of its devices. The Adaptive Flash platform targets customers looking ...
Future Datacenters Will Divvy Up Computing, Storage
June 11th, 2014 Comments Off on Future Datacenters Will Divvy Up Computing, Storage
The datacenter ecosystem of the next decade is likely to resemble an expanded version of the hyperscale facilities currently being built out by today's Internet giants, cloud providers, and software service providers, according to an industry survey on the ...
New RHEL 7 Linux Stresses Apps, Scaling
June 10th, 2014 (1)
Red Hat has unveiled the latest version of its open-source operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, promoting it as the foundation of an "open hybrid cloud" that delivers emerging new capabilities like application containers. The latest version is ...
IBM Unveils High-Speed Link To SoftLayer Cloud
June 10th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM Unveils High-Speed Link To SoftLayer Cloud
IBM is offering a dedicated connection to its SoftLayer cloud platform as a high-speed link between an enterprise's existing IT infrastructure and cloud services. The SoftLayer cloud division of IBM operates a global cloud platform that includes 13 datacenters ...
FedRAMP Enlists Industry Vet To Oversee Clouds
June 9th, 2014 Comments Off on FedRAMP Enlists Industry Vet To Oversee Clouds
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed a tech industry veteran to help oversee its uneven cloud rollout. Jennifer Kerber, former president of the industry group TechAmerica Foundation and most recently executive director of the Government Transformation Initiative, ...
Banks Eye Spare Datacenter Capacity
June 5th, 2014 Comments Off on Banks Eye Spare Datacenter Capacity
As more enterprises are opting to colocate their datacenters, a new player is emerging in the datacenter industry: the financial services sector. The financial services sector is becoming "more sophisticated" about its IT infrastructure, Matt Stansberry, author of an ...
Some Cloud Vendors Will Miss FedRAMP Deadline
June 4th, 2014 Comments Off on Some Cloud Vendors Will Miss FedRAMP Deadline
A June 5 deadline for federal agencies to comply with government cloud security and other U.S. standards could leave some major cloud vendors on the outside looking in. That is the scheduled deadline for federal agencies to complete assessments ...
Datacenter Spending Up, Energy Efforts Hitting Wall
June 4th, 2014 Comments Off on Datacenter Spending Up, Energy Efforts Hitting Wall
A survey of the datacenter industry broken down into colocation and financial services along with a catch-all enterprise category found that the former are receiving budget increases while enterprise spending on datacenters is slowing. The 2014 datacenter survey by ...
Dell, SAP Expand HANA Collaboration
June 3rd, 2014 Comments Off on Dell, SAP Expand HANA Collaboration
The SAP HANA ecosystem continues to expand with broader collaboration between the German enterprise software specialist and hardware partner Dell that rolls out new services on the SAP HANA platform. The goal of this and a string of related ...
Neural Nets Improve Google Datacenter Efficiency
May 30th, 2014 Comments Off on Neural Nets Improve Google Datacenter Efficiency
Key attributes of the smart grid, namely adding intelligence to the networks that distribute power, are being applied by Google to the design and operation of power-hungry datacenters. The search giant said its quest for ever-greater energy efficiency in ...