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).

Docker’s Sale Elevates Kubernetes as Standard

November 14th, 2019 Comments Off

Docker, the cloud software startup that pioneered hyperscale use of agile application containers, is ending its six-year run as an enterprise vendor, selling off its container platform to cloud tool vendor Mirantis and returning to its development roots. The ...

AMD Gains Design Win for Tencent Server

November 13th, 2019 Comments Off

Tencent, the Chinese cloud giant, said it would use AMD’s newest Epyc processor in its internally-designed server. The design win adds further momentum to AMD’s bid to erode rival Intel Corp.’s dominance of the global cloud and datacenter server ...

Merger Complete, Dell Rolls Automated IT

November 12th, 2019 Comments Off

Dell Technologies this week rolled out its data-driven vision of the automated IT infrastructure for the next decade, signaling in the process that it has completed the integration of among the largest technology mergers in history. Emphasizing the “next ...

Datacenters Flush with All-Flash Storage

November 11th, 2019 Comments Off

Storage based on all-flash NVM Express arrays is gaining a foothold in enterprise datacenters even as the overall server storage market stumbles. The datacenter storage market is in the midst of a hangover following a big 2018. IHS Markit ...

Kubernetes Tools Provide a Java Upgrade

November 7th, 2019 Comments Off

Microservices have evolved to the point where cloud-native development tools are now being referred to as Kubernetes-native—as in the de facto standard application container orchestrator. The reach of Kubernetes now extends to the Java stack used by developers pushing ...

Machine Learning Fuels a Booming HPC Market

November 6th, 2019 Comments Off

Enterprise infrastructure investments for training machine learning models have grown more than 50 percent annually over the past two years, and are expected to shortly surpass $10 billion, according to a new market forecast. Intersect360 Research notes that while ...

Microsoft, Nokia Partner on Factory Floor

November 5th, 2019 Comments Off

The framework for the next industrial phase dubbed Industry 4.0 is taking shape as cloud and networking vendors join forces to accelerate automation on the factory floor. The latest partnership includes Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), its former ...

5G, IoT Spur the Edge Datacenter Market

November 4th, 2019 Comments Off

The proliferation of connected devices and Internet of Things sensors is boosting a transformed datacenter market in which service providers are shifting operations closer to the network edge. That trend is influencing everything from network topologies to power management ...

Jaeger Emerges as Meister of Cloud Monitoring

November 1st, 2019 Comments Off

An open-source tool used to monitor and troubleshoot cloud-native services has joined the ranks of maturing platforms such as Kubernetes as microservices scale. Jaeger, a distributed tracing platform used to track the performance of transactions running on microservices, has ...

‘AIoT’ Seen Ushering in Industry 4.0

October 30th, 2019 Comments Off

The combination of AI and analytics with Internet of Things initiatives is forging an emerging enterprise category dubbed AIoT operations. According to a global survey, most IoT initiatives are using some form of AI as operators leverage automation to ...