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).

IoT Reality Check Projects ‘Trough of Disillusionment’

November 9th, 2016 Comments Off

In an attempt to rise above the hype and examine the hard economic and technical data about the Internet of Things (IoT), a new study released by a venture capital firm finds that "grassroots entrepreneurial activity still appears moderately ...

SAP HANA 2 Stresses Micro-Services, Analytics

November 8th, 2016 Comments Off

The second generation of SAP's HANA platform jumps on the micro-services bandwagon by emphasizing upgrades to the in-memory platform that speed development and deployment of distributed applications while adding data and workload management tools to streamline IT operations. In ...

Container Toolbox Grows With Azure Support

November 7th, 2016 Comments Off

Microsoft moved this week to expand its Azure cloud container service with the release of extended native support for the Kubernetes cloud orchestrator along with upgraded support for Mesosphere datacenter operating system (DC/OS). The software giant (NASDAQ: MSFT) rolled ...

Container Vendors Move to Plug Production Gaps

November 4th, 2016 Comments Off

Another batch of management tools targeting application containers emerged this week as vendors continue to plug holes in the emerging micro-services ecosystem while extending the capabilities of leading container platforms. For starters, ClusterHQ said it would beta release a ...

Facebook, Partners Light Up Datacenter Nets

November 3rd, 2016 Comments Off

The steady enterprise shift to open source software and hardware is expanding to datacenter networking via a collaboration between Facebook and networking partners as part of an effort to promote an optical switch architecture designed by the social media ...

Microsoft Releases Cloud Hardware Specs

November 2nd, 2016 Comments Off

Microsoft Corp. launched an open source initiative aimed at forging future hyperscale cloud hardware designs and a development template for open datacenter servers. However, its power specifications differ from other members of the Open Compute Project (OCP). The company ...

Container Manager Targets Multi-Cloud, Legacy Apps

November 1st, 2016 Comments Off

As application containers move steadily to production, vendors are stressing the ability to securely transfer workloads across multiple clouds while at the same time managing both cloud-native and legacy applications. That pitch in addition to expanded integration features with ...

CenturyLink Expands Net Push With Level 3 Deal

October 31st, 2016 Comments Off

CenturyLink Inc., which has struggled to gain traction in the cutthroat public cloud market, continued its shift away from datacenters toward delivering more Internet traffic for businesses with a $34 billion deal to acquire Level 3 Communications. The companies ...

Another IT Security Deal Targets Docker Containers

October 28th, 2016 Comments Off

As enterprises seek ways to nail down IT security for a growing list of open-source infrastructure distributions, the security sector is moving toward critical mass with an increasing number of acquisitions. This week's deal between software license optimization vendor ...

Targeting Open-Source Security Bugs

October 27th, 2016 Comments Off

Seeking to spot potential security vulnerabilities in systems that increasingly rely on open source software, software license optimization vendor Flexera Software has acquired a specialist in identifying potentially vulnerable software components. Flexera, Itasca, Ill., said Thursday (Oct. 27) it ...