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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).Red Hat Targets Apps With Project Atomic And RHEL 7
April 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Targets Apps With Project Atomic And RHEL 7
"The app is king," declared Red Hat's president of products and technologies at the company's annual summit today. Indeed, the focus on applications and how they are ported among virtual and real platforms is driving much of the development ...
IBM Cloud Guru Stresses Need For Speed
April 15th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM Cloud Guru Stresses Need For Speed
Technology, rather than budget or efficiency considerations, is driving enterprise decision-making, the head of IBM's cloud operations told the attendees of the opening session of the Red Hat Summit. Deepak Advani, IBM's general manager of cloud and smarter infrastructure, ...
VMware Cuts Price On Cloudy Disaster Recovery Services
April 15th, 2014 Comments Off on VMware Cuts Price On Cloudy Disaster Recovery Services
VMware is rolling out a disaster recovery service that it says will extend the service to the public cloud by making is less expensive and complex. The vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery solution is built on VMware's vSphere ...
Genome Researchers Battling Data Storage Bottlenecks
April 11th, 2014 (4)
Genome sequencing designed to determine the complete DNA sequence of an organism is generating petabytes of raw and processed data that is proving extremely difficult to manage and store. Here is a key metric that illustrates the problem: The ...
Lustre File System Moving From Lab To Big Data Apps
April 9th, 2014 Comments Off on Lustre File System Moving From Lab To Big Data Apps
Proponents of the Lustre file system maintain it is poised to make the jump from HPC installations into the enterprise, driven by the surging amount of data that companies are pooling. If that prediction pans out, a parallel file ...
Enterprise Software Fuels Bullish IT Forecast
April 9th, 2014 Comments Off on Enterprise Software Fuels Bullish IT Forecast
Global IT spending is projected to jump 3.2 percent this year, led by a big increase in enterprise software, while an expanding cloud infrastructure is helping to drive datacenter systems spending to $143 billion. Overall, Gartner estimates that global ...
Red Hat Joins The Crowd On Google Cloud
April 8th, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Joins The Crowd On Google Cloud
The cloud is making for strange bedfellows, which may turn out to be another of its attributes as prices decline. Case in point: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is joining a growing list of operating systems running on the ...
Federated Cloud Services Offer Response To Commodity Pricing
April 7th, 2014 Comments Off on Federated Cloud Services Offer Response To Commodity Pricing
As cloud services rapidly become a commodity, smaller local service providers are feeling the heat as market leaders Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft engage in a price war that is quickly boiling down to who can best compete ...
IBM Chip Suitors Rumored To Narrow To GlobalFoundries
April 4th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM Chip Suitors Rumored To Narrow To GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries has reportedly emerged as the leading candidate to acquire IBM's remaining semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The Wall Street Journal reported on April 3 that Intel and foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp were also in talks with IBM. TSMC ...
Greenpeace Sees Progress Toward ‘Green’ Datacenters
April 3rd, 2014 Comments Off on Greenpeace Sees Progress Toward ‘Green’ Datacenters
We can't do much without power, and cloud computing services are using a growing share of the world's electrical power. That trend is expected to accelerate as emerging markets like China scramble to meet energy demand from online users, ...