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).

U.S. Looks to Forge IoT Strategy

January 13th, 2017 Comments Off

While encouraging a secure and interoperable Internet of Things (IoT), the U.S. will work to provide spectrum and other infrastructure assets while promoting global interoperability standards and technology innovation, a Commerce Department report stresses. The report released Thursday (Jan. ...

Despite Uncertainty, Cloud Drives IT Spending

January 12th, 2017 (1)

Global IT spending is forecast to increase by 2.7 percent in 2017, a modest increase that might be higher if not for "political uncertainty in global markets," according to a new Gartner Inc. forecast that also predicts strong annual ...

Google Expands Cloud Encryption Options

January 11th, 2017 Comments Off

Responding to growing concerns about cloud security and data governance across different platforms, Google is expanding its cloud security options with the release of encryption key management service. The Cloud Key Management Service is intended to broaden encryption options ...

Container Market Pegged at $2.7B by 2020

January 10th, 2017 Comments Off

As more evidence emerges regarding enterprise adoption of application containers in production, a market analyst finds that the micro-services are among the fastest growing technologies used to implement cloud infrastructure. New York-based 451 Research estimated this week the application ...

Is App Container Shakeout Underway?

January 6th, 2017 Comments Off

The unexpected shut down of early application container developer ClusterHQ at the end of 2016 has some observers predicting that a shakeout in underway in the container sector as critics question whether sales to date justify skyrocketing valuations for ...

FPGA-Based Genome Processor Bundles Storage

January 5th, 2017 Comments Off

Bio-processor developer Edico Genome is collaborating with storage specialist Dell EMC to bundle computing and storage platform for analyzing gene-sequencing data. The partners said this week the platform will be based on Edico Genome's DRAGEN processor that uses an ...

Software Development Still Lacks Agility

January 4th, 2017 Comments Off

The growing desire to speed the deployment of enterprise software is being hampered by a shortfall in automation skills and "fragmented" testing processes. Lack of training and tools along with unclear testing processes were most often cited as obstacles ...

Containers Depart ‘Hype’ Phase in 2016

December 19th, 2016 Comments Off

Application containers made the jump from prototype to production in 2016 as the distributed application technology began to make headway in hyper-scale IT infrastructure. Along with an expanding ecosystem, the sector is characterized by healthy competition that is driving ...

Cloud-Based Weather Network Launched

December 16th, 2016 Comments Off

Access to huge volumes of weather data—volumes that will likely soar after the November launch of the U.S. GOES-R weather satellite—has been limited to a few users at great expense. Now a university-private sector networking effort will attempt to ...

Latest OpenStack Release Addresses Complexity

December 15th, 2016 Comments Off

OpenStack developers are addressing complaints about deployment complexity in their latest distributions as they attempt to attract new enterprise customers beyond early adopters. The latest attempt comes from Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT), which this week unveiled the latest ...