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).

Kubernetes, Container Security Woes Evolving

July 30th, 2019 Comments Off

Kubernetes security has emerged as a booming business as deployments enter production and security vendors release a steady stream of user surveys pinpointing specific pain points in production container rollouts. The latest example comes from StackRox, a security vendor ...

Cloud Foundry Gets Another Security Layer

July 30th, 2019 Comments Off

A runtime security tool released this week by Aqua Security allows users of Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry platform to scan container-based and cloud native applications from development through production workloads. The partners said Tuesday (July 30) the security service can ...

NVMe over Fabric Advances

July 25th, 2019 Comments Off

Efforts to move NVM Express technology over fabrics into enterprise datacenters advanced this week with progress toward a new industry specification entering its final review. NVM Express Inc. announced that its NVMe-oF architecture has entered a final 45-day review ...

Container Storage Goes Native

July 24th, 2019 Comments Off

Persistent storage emerged as an early requirement for shifting application containers to full production. Industry standards groups have since taken up the cause by launching so-called “cloud-native” storage projects around key components like the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator. Among those ...

Docker Tightens Embrace of Kubernetes

July 23rd, 2019 (1)

The latest enterprise version of the Docker software container platform is aimed at delivering cloud-native applications from hybrid cloud deployments out to emerging network edge devices. The container pioneer announced general availability of Docker Enterprise 3.0 on Monday (July ...

Cloud Developers Ambivalent on AI Misuse

July 22nd, 2019 Comments Off

Prompted by a recent backlash among employees at major U.S. cloud technology vendors, a new survey reveals mixed intentions among AI developers about how far they are willing to go in developing new law enforcement and other controversial tools. ...

Google Adds Deep Learning Containers to AI Lineup

July 11th, 2019 Comments Off

Deep learning containers, a service recently rolled out in beta by Google, aims to help AI developers package the storage and computing dependencies required for services like its Kubernetes Engine when developers find themselves prototyping locally while using multiple ...

Mellanox Partners with Storage Startups

July 10th, 2019 Comments Off

As GPU leader Nvidia closes its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies announced earlier this year, the HPC network interconnect specialist’s venture arm remains active, investing in two storage startups. Mellanox Capital did not disclose the amounts of its investments ...

Eying Hybrid Cloud Lead, IBM Closes Red Hat Deal

July 9th, 2019 Comments Off

Going all-in on its bet that enterprises are poised to move mission- critical workloads across hybrid clouds, IBM finally announced the closing of its blockbuster deal to acquire open source software leader Red Hat for $34 billion. The transaction ...

Help Coming for Beleaguered Programmers

July 8th, 2019 Comments Off

As data scientists and software developers sort through the plethora of tools and APIs ranging from Python to Apache Spark, automation schemes are emerging to help programmers navigate those tools and the accompanying infrastructure that machine learning and other ...