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).

IBM Expands Partnership With App Developer

July 10th, 2017 Comments Off

IBM has been working with an application developer startup called Lightbend Inc. on artificial intelligence, cognitive and other distributed applications, most destined to run in the cloud. The startup announced this week that IBM has extended their collaboration by ...

Survey Sees Major Middleware Overhaul

July 6th, 2017 Comments Off

Among the implications of the enterprise migration to the cloud is a predicted overhaul of middleware platforms over the next several years as the integration of business applications drives adoption of cloud-based alternatives. A recent IT survey on the ...

Kubernetes Gets Storage, Security Upgrades

July 5th, 2017 Comments Off

As more distributed applications are delivered via containers, managing them at scale has become a key requirement. That has spurred extensions of container orchestration tools such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. In the latter's case, those extensions include new ...

Sweden Scales Datacenter Heat Recycling

July 3rd, 2017 Comments Off

A Swedish data park seeking to attract major datacenter operators is upgrading a five-year-old effort to recover and distribute heat generated by datacenters to a local energy company. Stockholm Data Parks along with power grid provider Ellevio and fiber ...

Microsoft Buys Cloud Cost Manager

June 30th, 2017 Comments Off

As more enterprises struggle with their cloud migration, tool vendors are emerging to manage the transition along with the cost and complexity that many enterprise cloud adopters underestimate. As it competes for hearts, minds and enterprise IT budgets with ...

AWS Stresses ‘Security by Design,’ DevOps Freedom

June 29th, 2017 Comments Off

Citing its "mind-blowing" impact on the IT industry, Amazon's CTO argued that the cloud is emerging as the "new normal" for digital enterprises while providing developers with resources designed to get applications and services out the door faster. "Public ...

Platform9 Raises Cash, Eyes Hybrid Cloud Deployments

June 28th, 2017 Comments Off

Platform9, the open-source tool vendor specializing in hybrid cloud services, announced a third round of funding this week as cloud frameworks such as OpenStack and Kubernetes gain traction among enterprises. The Series C funding round that raised $22 million ...

IoT Helps Redefine Cloud-Native App Development

June 27th, 2017 Comments Off

Distributed applications must be designed upfront for deployment in the cloud if enterprises hope to achieve the scale necessary for Internet of Things and other hyper-scale projects, cloud-native proponents argue. Industry groups such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ...

Pentagon Awards Huge Cloud Contract

June 26th, 2017 Comments Off

Few federal agencies have more stringent security requirements for cloud deployment than the Defense Department, which has been fighting an uphill battle to move more sensitive workloads to the cloud. The Pentagon signaled this month it is ready to ...

Cloud Migration: Look Before You Leap

June 23rd, 2017 Comments Off

It's best to get your ducks in a row before moving the company jewels to the cloud, a migration study advises. As hybrid cloud strategies gain momentum, the migration survey commissioned by management services specialist CloudHealth Technologies stresses that ...