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).

Open Net Effort Eyes ‘Industrialized’ SDN, NFV

February 15th, 2017 Comments Off

Open networking organizations have announced a new development framework aimed at advancing software-defined networks and network virtualization via open source platforms, network device disaggregation and new network standards. The Open Network Foundation (ONF), which is in the process of ...

Cyber Skills Gap Grows Along With Threats

February 14th, 2017 Comments Off

A corporate job opening typically draws as many as 250 applicants with varying qualifications. In stark contrast, a new survey of the growing cyber security skills gap reveals that just over half of U.S. companies looking to fill corporate ...

Oracle Fleshes Out Cloud Data Strategy

February 13th, 2017 Comments Off

Oracle has made a lot of noise over the last six months or so intended to challenge public cloud services leaders, especially Amazon Web Services. It is now attempting to flesh out that vision with the introduction of a ...

IBM Extends Mainframe Support to Anaconda

February 10th, 2017 Comments Off

IBM is expanding its embrace of big data analytics to include support on its open source mainframe for the Anaconda stack used by Python programmers. The company (NYSE: IBM) announced Thursday (Feb. 9) that it is collaborating with Anaconda ...

New Tools Seek to Orchestrate Container Management

February 9th, 2017 Comments Off

Several application container management tools were released this week with the goals of securing the software supply chain while improving orchestration of container clusters as the percentage of production workloads inches upward. San Francisco-based Docker on Thursday (Feb. 9) ...

Hybrid Cloud Dominates as Storage Challenges Mount

February 8th, 2017 Comments Off

The steady enterprise migration to cloud services has users looking beyond the evident advantages of hybrid cloud approaches to consider the importance of attributes such as cloud storage scaling and the wisdom of adopting cloud storage management services. There ...

MapR Targets Persistent Storage For Containers

February 7th, 2017 Comments Off

Application containers get a lot of attention, but remain ephemeral. Converged data platform specialist MapR Technologies is looking to fill that gap in the application container ecosystem with the roll out of a persistent storage capability designed to move ...

Stratoscale Buys Tesora, Accelerating Database Shift to Cloud

February 6th, 2017 Comments Off

The merger of database services with cloud and other datacenter infrastructure continues to accelerate with the latest acquisition of a database-as-a-service vendor by the Israeli cloud infrastructure provider Stratoscale. Stratoscale, Herzliya, Israel, specializes in delivering Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: ...

Google Expands Cloud Support For Windows

February 3rd, 2017 Comments Off

Google took aim at a cloud rival this week with an announcement it would support Microsoft's database management server and other Microsoft services on Google Cloud Platform. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced Wednesday (Feb. 1) it would expand its earlier ...

Survey: Datacenter Optimization Remains Elusive

February 2nd, 2017 Comments Off

A new vendor-sponsored survey finds that the vast majority of datacenter operators doubt IT infrastructure matches their digital business strategy while many remain concerned about public cloud security. The IT optimization survey conducted by IDG Research and sponsored by ...