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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).Sweden Cuts Tax on Datacenter Power
November 28th, 2016 Comments Off on Sweden Cuts Tax on Datacenter Power
As the data continues to pile up, so too does the stiffening competition to store and manage it. The latest gambit comes from energy-efficient Sweden, where the Scandinavian nation's parliament has approved a tax measure designed to attract datacenter ...
Microsoft’s Embrace of Linux Draws Ire
November 22nd, 2016 Comments Off on Microsoft’s Embrace of Linux Draws Ire
The elevation of Microsoft Corp. to the status of "platinum" member of the Linux Foundation has angered open source advocates who worry the software giant will flex its market muscles and, in the words of one critic, "commercial company ...
‘API Economy’ Gets a ‘Middleman’
November 21st, 2016 Comments Off on ‘API Economy’ Gets a ‘Middleman’
The assertion that the "API economy" is upon us gained a measure of credence this week with a high-profile investment in a startup behind an open-source API platform designed to connect existing software for emerging applications. San Francisco-based RapidAPI, ...
Startup Heptio Takes Kubernetes Mainstream
November 18th, 2016 Comments Off on Startup Heptio Takes Kubernetes Mainstream
Heptio is the latest application container startup, but it's pedigree runs deeper than most: The startup's founders are two Google veterans who created the Kubernetes container orchestrator that is vying to become an industry standard for emerging micro-services. Kubernetes ...
IT ‘Sprawl’ Spawning Security Gaps, Survey Finds
November 17th, 2016 Comments Off on IT ‘Sprawl’ Spawning Security Gaps, Survey Finds
The steady shift toward purchasing IT "as a service" is accelerating the decentralization of infrastructure management, fostering growing security concerns as more enterprises shift operations to the cloud, according to study commissioned by VMware Inc. The company (NYSE: VMW) ...
GE Makes Splash With Data Deals
November 16th, 2016 Comments Off on GE Makes Splash With Data Deals
Add machine-learning specialist Wise.io and data ingestion platform vendor Bit Stew Systems to the list of acquisitions by GE Digital, which also this week released an operating system for the industrial Internet designed to extend its Predix technology stack. ...
Storage Options Emerge For Mobile Data
November 15th, 2016 Comments Off on Storage Options Emerge For Mobile Data
A range of object and software-defined storage options are emerging to tackle soaring data volumes driven by mobile devices at the network edge along with the movement of data among multiple clouds. For starters, the Hitachi Data Systems unit ...
Hyper-scalers Speeding Apps Via FPGAs
November 14th, 2016 Comments Off on Hyper-scalers Speeding Apps Via FPGAs
Nimbix is the latest HPC cloud vendor to collaborate with FPGA pioneer Xilinx Inc. to accelerate cloud datacenter workflows that increasingly include computing-intensive data analytics, machine learning and video processing workloads. The partners announced the availability Monday (Nov. 14) ...
EU Launches Low-Power Chip Effort
November 10th, 2016 Comments Off on EU Launches Low-Power Chip Effort
The European Union is expanding its efforts to promote energy-efficient computing with funding for hardware research aimed at next-generation high-end processors. "The European Commission wants Europe to avail of a new family of processors with a significantly better ...
SUSE Deal Includes Ceph Storage Project
November 10th, 2016 Comments Off on SUSE Deal Includes Ceph Storage Project
Weeks after forging a Linux partnership with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), OpenStack and Linux specialist SUSE said it is acquiring the software-defined storage management framework of German technology firm IT-Novum that includes an open-source Ceph storage project. SUSE, Nuremberg, Germany, ...