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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).Cisco, Google Advance Hybrid Cloud Collaboration
February 2nd, 2018 Comments Off on Cisco, Google Advance Hybrid Cloud Collaboration
Cisco Systems and Google have been collaborating over the past year to extend the Kubernetes container orchestrator to on-premises production platforms. Cisco's collaboration with Google Cloud was disclosed last fall as the partners sought to extend their hybrid cloud ...
Heptio Bucks Kubernetes Distribution Trend
February 1st, 2018 Comments Off on Heptio Bucks Kubernetes Distribution Trend
As container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes make hybrid infrastructure more agile, gradually usurping the role of virtual machines, more tools are emerging from upstream developers of the open source container project. The latest comes from the startup whose founders ...
Red Hat Buys Container Startup CoreOS
January 30th, 2018 Comments Off on Red Hat Buys Container Startup CoreOS
Red Hat is expanding its push into the nascent micro-services and container orchestration sector with the acquisition of plucky startup CoreOS. The acquisition announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) is valued at $250 million, underscoring the soaring market valuations for open-source ...
Quantum Computers Threaten Data Encryption
January 29th, 2018 Comments Off on Quantum Computers Threaten Data Encryption
The promise of quantum computing comes with a major downside: "Cryptographically useful" quantum machines will threaten public key encryption used to secure data in the cloud, a new report warns. The Cloud Security Alliance also found in a report ...
Vermont Launches Blockchain Project
January 26th, 2018 Comments Off on Vermont Launches Blockchain Project
Early efforts to use blockchain technology for financial transactions are gathering momentum with the launch of a pilot project between a blockchain startup and a Vermont city to use the digital ledger to record real estate deals. Propy Inc., ...
Cumulus Networks Riding Shift to Open Nets
January 23rd, 2018 Comments Off on Cumulus Networks Riding Shift to Open Nets
Open networking specialist Cumulus Networks closed its latest funding round this week as it seeks to capitalize on the market shift to agile datacenter operations. The company, Mountain View, Calif., said it raised $43 million in new funding in ...
HPE, Portworx Partner to Speed Container Workloads
January 19th, 2018 Comments Off on HPE, Portworx Partner to Speed Container Workloads
The explosion of on-demand applications like ride hailing and movies is said to be fueling the shift to cloud-native and container-based application frameworks that can meet growing performance requirements. With that in mind, stateful container specialist Portworx unveiled an ...
Apple’s Datacenter Push Rattles Cloud Market
January 18th, 2018 Comments Off on Apple’s Datacenter Push Rattles Cloud Market
Apple's announcement this week that it would spend more than $10 billion over the next five years on datacenter construction promises to shake up the public cloud market. Responding to provisions of a U.S. tax overhaul approved in December, ...
Enterprise Software, AI Driving Global IT Spending
January 17th, 2018 Comments Off on Enterprise Software, AI Driving Global IT Spending
Spending on enterprise software is projected to jump by a healthy 9.5 percent in the coming year as demand is stimulated by software services platforms, according to a new global IT forecast that also predicts heavy investments in AI ...
U.S. Seeks to Automate Video Analysis
January 16th, 2018 Comments Off on U.S. Seeks to Automate Video Analysis
U.S. military and intelligence agencies continue to look for new ways to use artificial intelligence to sift through huge amounts of video imagery in hopes of freeing analysts to identify threats and otherwise put their skills to better use. ...