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).

Container Runtime Security Gets New Tools

May 3rd, 2018 Comments Off

As application containers enter the mainstream, a new set of production security issues is emerging. That has prompted early container orchestration and cloud vendors to establish frameworks to help manage security alerts when containers are compromised. Among them is ...

Survey Finds Microservices Teething Issues

May 2nd, 2018 Comments Off

Microservices, the web-scale application architecture, is making serious headway in production, according to a vendor survey, but the tradeoff for more agile application delivery is a new set of operational challenges that include identifying and resolving performance issues. The ...

Google Expands Cloud Tools with Data Orchestrator

May 1st, 2018 Comments Off

Google Cloud Platform’s new data orchestrator dubbed Cloud Composer is its latest managed service based on its Apache Airflow workflow management tool. Announcing the beta launch of Cloud Composer on Tuesday (May 1), Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) said the orchestration ...

AMD Continues to Nip at Intel’s Heels

April 27th, 2018 Comments Off

Advanced Micro Devices appears to making market share headway at the expense of long-time rival Intel Corp. based on quarterly results released this week. AMD reported quarterly revenue totaling $1.65 billion, up 40 percent from the same quarter last ...

Rackspace is Latest to Roll Bare Metal Service

April 26th, 2018 Comments Off

Rackspace is expanding it managed private cloud services with the addition of six new bare metal instances that it collectively refers to as bare metal as a service. The private cloud vendor announced the new managed hosting service this ...

Google, Atos Partner on Cloud Machine Learning

April 25th, 2018 Comments Off

Google continues to add regional cloud partners as it seeks to differentiate its public cloud offerings while distributing its machine learning building blocks. Atos, the French big data platform and server vendor, announced a partnership with Google Cloud this ...

Heptio Builds Bridge to Kubernetes

April 23rd, 2018 Comments Off

Heptio, the startup launched in 2016 by the creators of the Kubernetes container orchestrator, is launching an open source initiative along with partner Actapio aimed at bridging cloud native and existing infrastructure by scaling network traffic into hybrid frameworks. ...

As Object Storage Booms, Analytics Issues Emerge

April 19th, 2018 Comments Off

With object-based storage capacity predicted to grow at double-digit annual rates over the next several years, attention is turning to shortcomings such as barriers to data visibility and difficulties in performing analytics using object storage. A new vendor survey ...

New Device Spots Quantum Particle ‘Fingerprint’

April 18th, 2018 Comments Off

Majorana particles have been observed by university researchers employing a device consisting of layers of magnetic insulators on a superconducting material. The advance opens the door to controlling the elusive particles as part of an alternative “topological” approach to ...

VMware Sharpens Focus on Hybrid Cloud

April 17th, 2018 Comments Off

VMware this week takes the wraps off the latest versions of its server virtualization and software-defined storage platforms with an emphasis on hybrid cloud deployments, broader application support and—in the case of its vSphere platform—a three-fold reduction in memory ...