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).

OpenStack Strives For Interoperability

October 26th, 2016 Comments Off

Based on the assumption that cloud adopters will use multiple platforms from multiple vendors, a growing number of OpenStack vendors have been targeting interoperability across different clouds to boost flexibility as well as cloud security. Hence, the meshing of ...

App Development Said to Propel OpenStack

October 25th, 2016 Comments Off

Cloud-native application development is among the drivers of OpenStack production deployments, which more than doubled over the last year, according to a new vendor survey. The survey results released this week by OpenStack leader Red Hat Inc. found that ...

Cloud Analytics Startup Raises $52M

October 25th, 2016 Comments Off

As more companies are moving applications and other workloads to the cloud, the market for cloud-based data analytics appears to be gaining momentum as cloud infrastructure vendors invest in application monitoring services. Among the emerging cloud monitoring services attracting ...

Early Blockchain Adopters Kicking Tires

October 21st, 2016 Comments Off

While skeptics question how long it will take for emerging blockchain technology to make a dent in the financial technology market, high-profile backers of the decentralized secure transaction platform claim it is poised to "rewire" financial markets. Among the ...

OpenStack Making Pricing Gains, Index Finds

October 20th, 2016 Comments Off

The OpenStack cloud platform has had plenty of teething problems, none the least of which are its complexity in deployments and a steep learning curve before users reap a return on the investment. Key vendors such as Rackspace (NYSE: ...

U.K. Weather Office Gets Exascale Boost

October 19th, 2016 Comments Off

Improved weather forecasting and climate change analysis are among the emerging applications for the combination of exascale computing, data analytics and the storage demands each places on data management tasks. European forecasters have been at the forefront of leveraging ...

VMs Still Have Legs, Survey Finds

October 18th, 2016 Comments Off

Faster server provisioning and consolidation along with long-term cost savings remain the key benefits of virtualization, according to a new vendor survey, with virtual machines keeping pace with trendy application infrastructure such as Linux containers and hybrid cloud computing. ...

Docker, CoreOS Announce Container Deals

October 17th, 2016 Comments Off

Docker Inc. has tapped into the emerging high-volume Chinese cloud market in a deal to provide a range of application container services to the cloud-computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA). Meanwhile, rival CoreOS has acquired ...

AWS, VMware Scale the Hybrid Cloud

October 14th, 2016 Comments Off

The hybrid cloud market just got far more competitive with an alliance between the leading public cloud vendor and an entrenched datacenter supplier. Along with preserving existing datacenter investments, the alliance also is seen as targeting big data workloads ...

Pure Storage Upgrades Flash Arrays, Expands With Cisco

October 13th, 2016 Comments Off

All-flash storage leader Pure Storage rolled out a petabyte-scale storage array this week while also expanding its collaboration with Cisco Systems on a converged infrastructure initiative. Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), Mountain View, Calif., announced availability on Wednesday (Oct. 12) ...