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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).Docker Donates Container ‘Plumbing’
December 14th, 2016 Comments Off on Docker Donates Container ‘Plumbing’
Docker Inc. is moving to expand its application container ecosystem by releasing to the open source community its underlying runtime used to execute containers while enlisting leading public cloud providers as partners to extend the reach of distributed applications ...
U.S. Needs IoT Strategy, Study Urges
December 13th, 2016 (1)
The U.S. requires a national strategy to coordinate private sector efforts to deploy the Internet of Things (IoT) that includes data security and interoperability standards, according to a report released this week by the Center for Data Innovation. “It ...
Container Encryption Targets Security, Downtime
December 9th, 2016 Comments Off on Container Encryption Targets Security, Downtime
Securing the contents of application containers based on Docker and other platforms has relied heavily on isolating individual containers from one another along with other access control approaches. Now, a data security vendor is proposing an encryption scheme that, ...
Google, Red Hat Partner to Extend Kubernetes
December 8th, 2016 Comments Off on Google, Red Hat Partner to Extend Kubernetes
The ecosystem for the Kubernetes application container orchestrator continues to expand with support for Windows server and greater upstream collaboration between Kubernetes developer Google and Red Hat. With the latest version of Kubernetes now expected next week, Red Hat ...
Flaws Found in Security Software, Unlicensed Code
December 7th, 2016 (1)
A flurry of industry surveys have flagged open source and unlicensed software as growing security threats. Moreover, a review released by Flexera Software also found that the very security products designed to protect IT infrastructure are themselves riddled with ...
HPE Rolls Out ‘Micro’ Datacenter
December 5th, 2016 Comments Off on HPE Rolls Out ‘Micro’ Datacenter
The evolution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise as an infrastructure software vendor advanced this week with the release of a "micro datacenter" offering that targets exponential data growth and the rise of hybrid cloud adoption. HPE (NYSE: HPE) said Monday ...
AWS Embraces FPGAs, ‘Elastic’ GPUs
December 1st, 2016 Comments Off on AWS Embraces FPGAs, ‘Elastic’ GPUs
A new instance type rolled out this week by Amazon Web Services is based on customizable field programmable gate arrays that promise to strike a balance between performance and cost as emerging workloads create requirements often unmet by general-purpose ...
‘Digital Transformation’ Uneven, Survey Finds
December 1st, 2016 (2)
"Traditional" enterprises, a label attached to established companies struggling to make the transition to cloud and other digital platforms, get a failing grade when it comes to upgrading their IT infrastructure when compared to so-called "digital natives". According to ...
SUSE Acquires HPE’s OpenStack, Cloud Foundry Assets
November 30th, 2016 Comments Off on SUSE Acquires HPE’s OpenStack, Cloud Foundry Assets
Hewlett Packard Enterprise continued the selloff of its enterprise software assets this week in an expanded deal with open source specialist SUSE to acquire its OpenStack and Cloud Foundry technologies. SUSE said Wednesday (Nov. 30) it is acquiring "technology ...
Forecast: Hackers Target Software-Based Nets
November 29th, 2016 Comments Off on Forecast: Hackers Target Software-Based Nets
Among the growing list of security threats expected to expand in the coming year are hackers probing emerging software-defined infrastructure for vulnerabilities. According to a security forecast released this week by Intel Corp.'s (NASDAQ: INTC) McAfee Labs, exploits targeting ...