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).

Latest Kubernetes Release Focuses on ‘Depth’

September 29th, 2017 Comments Off

As the Kubernetes container orchestrator makes steady inroads inside large companies for machine learning and big data workloads, the community behind the Google-backed platform is releasing its third update of 2017 with an emphasis on buttressing existing security and ...

Scality Extends Multi-Cloud Storage to Azure

September 28th, 2017 Comments Off

A host of infrastructure vendors are attempting to broaden their cloud footprint as more enterprises hedge their bets with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. Among them is software-defined object and cloud storage vendor Scality, which announced this week it is ...

Blockchain Advances With First Real Estate Deal

September 26th, 2017 Comments Off

The blockchain ecosystem continues to evolve as competing industry alliances seek to push the transaction database technology deeper into enterprises, including the first international real estate transaction. Blockchain serves as a distributed ledger framework that posts transactions in real-time ...

Red Hat, Microsoft Extend Alliance to SQL Server

September 25th, 2017 Comments Off

Red Hat continues to expand its ties with major cloud providers with the addition of the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server on its flagship Linux platform. Separately, the open source and cloud infrastructure specialist (NYSE: RHT) announced it ...

Google Joins Rush to Nvidia Cloud GPUs

September 21st, 2017 Comments Off

Google has taken down the notice on its cloud platform website that says Nvidia Tesla P100s are “coming soon.” The search giant announced Thursday (Sept. 21) the beta launch of the high-end P100 Nvidia Tesla GPUs on the Google ...

Linux, Docker Gain in Public Cloud Deployments

September 20th, 2017 Comments Off

As the enterprise application stack is fleshed out with micro-services and other emerging tiers, more applications are running in the cloud as the Linux operating system emerges as a "legitimate option" across leading public cloud platforms, a new report ...

Cloud Confusion: Who Handles Data Security?

September 19th, 2017 Comments Off

As enterprise adoption of public cloud services accelerates, confusion persists among cloud providers and customers over responsibility for data and application security. A vendor survey of 300 IT decision makers released this week confirms that public cloud adoption is ...

IBM Goes ‘Retro’ For Cloud Data Migration

September 18th, 2017 Comments Off

The rise of streaming analytics, and with it ever-greater volumes of big data in motion, is prompting new ways to "transport" data that is increasing ending up in the cloud. With an eye on remote users with limited network ...

Equifax Ignored Apache Struts Patch For Months

September 15th, 2017 (2)

In the aftermath of the second massive security breach at Equifax Inc. in four years, the Apache Foundation confirmed this week the data breach stemmed from the consumer credit reporting agency's failure to install patches to Apache Struts, an ...

Java EE Finds Open Source Home

September 14th, 2017 Comments Off

The enterprise version of Java has landed at an open source consortium a month after Oracle Corp. revealed it would release the programming language to outside software developers. Oracle announced this week it would turn over Java Enterprise Edition ...