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).

Flash Storage Thrives as Server Sales Slump

June 7th, 2017 Comments Off

New data points emerged this week indicating that all-flash storage arrays are beginning to make headway in datacenters as server sales continue to decline. Market researcher Dell'Oro Group reported that all-flash array market revenue grew a healthy 48 percent ...

Data Dilemma: What to Store, What to Dump?

June 6th, 2017 Comments Off

As storage costs decline on a Moore's Law curve, technology vendors seeking to drive storage capacity and enterprises leveraging that stored data for new applications agree that we have plenty of data available but remain woefully short on wisdom. ...

HPE, Hedvig Target Hybrid Cloud Storage

June 2nd, 2017 Comments Off

A day after announcing lackluster quarterly results as IT hardware demand declines, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and software-defined storage startup Hedvig Inc. announced a hybrid cloud storage platform customized for HPE servers. The partners said Thursday (June 1) they have initially ...

HPE Eyes Storage Gains as Server Sales Slide

June 1st, 2017 Comments Off

Slowing demand for servers and related networking hardware cut deeply into Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's quarterly revenues, the company reported this week. The 13 percent decline in revenues for the second quarter ending April 30 was the steepest for the company's ...

Hybrid Cloud Seen Driving Container Adoption

May 31st, 2017 Comments Off

The growing number of hybrid cloud deployments is accelerating demand for enterprise container infrastructure as companies seek a consistent application development environment across on-premise infrastructure to the cloud, a new survey finds. The study also found a substantial jump ...

ARM Doubles Down on AI

May 30th, 2017 Comments Off

ARM Ltd. joined a growing roster of processor specialists zeroing in on artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with the introduction of two new processor cores, one emphasizing performance, and the other efficiency. The chip intellectual property vendor unveiled ...

TriCore Deal Boosts Rackspace’s Apps Offerings

May 26th, 2017 Comments Off

A day after naming a new CEO, managed cloud specialist Rackspace has moved to beef up its enterprise application delivery capabilities with the acquisition of an application, cloud and infrastructure hosting company. San Antonio-based Rackspace said Thursday (May 25) ...

Red Hat Sharpens DevOps Focus with Codenvy Deal

May 25th, 2017 Comments Off

Red Hat has acquired another DevOps startup, this one focused on cloud-native development tools for container-based applications. The company announced this week it is acquiring Codenvy, which was founded in 2013 to develop an enterprise version of the open ...

LinkedIn Spearheads Common Server Effort

May 24th, 2017 Comments Off

A standards effort driven by LinkedIn that seeks to "redefine" future datacenter infrastructure will initially focus on a common form factor for servers, according to the founding members. Along with LinkedIn, which was acquired by Microsoft NASDAQ: MSFT) last ...

Chef Expands App Automation Tools

May 23rd, 2017 Comments Off

The shift to cloud-native platforms and faster delivery of distributed applications via containers is driving efforts to automate not only app development but also management of hybrid infrastructure and compliance requirements. With that in mind, DevOps specialist Chef released ...