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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).Security Concerns Slowing Cloud Rollouts
October 12th, 2016 Comments Off on Security Concerns Slowing Cloud Rollouts
Security remains the greatest barrier to cloud adoption as more mobile applications are hosted by outside software and infrastructure service providers, according to a new survey. The vendor poll released this week also found that only 10 percent of ...
U.S. Cloud Shift Advances
October 11th, 2016 Comments Off on U.S. Cloud Shift Advances
U.S. government agencies' slog to the cloud, a journey that has lately been complicated by a new set of security requirements designed to fend off an outbreak of "nation-state" cyber attacks, registered some modest progress this week when another ...
OpenStack Newton Seeks Scale, Easier Deployment
October 10th, 2016 Comments Off on OpenStack Newton Seeks Scale, Easier Deployment
The latest version of the OpenStack cloud platform emphasizes scale and automation tools with a batch of new features that include a container cluster orchestration manager, a new container-networking project along with a bare metal provisioning service. OpenStack Newton ...
Tech Mergers Tick Up in Q3
October 7th, 2016 Comments Off on Tech Mergers Tick Up in Q3
Technology merger and acquisition activity picked up during the third quarter, led by SoftBank Group's blockbuster deal in July to acquire U.K. processor intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. immediately after Britain voted to exit the European Union. While deals ...
Privacy Framework Spurs Euro Datacenter Expansion
October 6th, 2016 Comments Off on Privacy Framework Spurs Euro Datacenter Expansion
Cloud services and data governance vendors are moving swiftly to comply with a new U.S.-European Union privacy regime that imposes stricter requirements on U.S. companies for protecting the personal data. As major cloud providers expand datacenter capacity in Europe ...
Intel’s FPGAs Target Datacenters, Networking
October 5th, 2016 Comments Off on Intel’s FPGAs Target Datacenters, Networking
Targeting cloud computing, datacenters, network infrastructure and Internet of Things sensors, chipmaker Intel Corp. said it is sampling the latest version of it field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) said this week its Stratix 10 FPGAs are ...
CoreOS Expands App Containers With Image Registry
October 5th, 2016 Comments Off on CoreOS Expands App Containers With Image Registry
In its drive to deliver "Google infrastructure for everyone," application container specialist CoreOS is rolling out an image registry designed to accelerate container builds on its orchestration platform. CoreOS said its Quay container registry adds another Kubernetes-based component to ...
Microsoft Eyes AI Supercomputer on Azure
October 3rd, 2016 Comments Off on Microsoft Eyes AI Supercomputer on Azure
Microsoft is jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon with the formation of a new research group that will seek to make the technology more accessible via its Azure cloud while helping to deliver new capabilities across applications, services and ...
SAP Seals Altiscale Deal
September 29th, 2016 Comments Off on SAP Seals Altiscale Deal
SAP completed it acquisition of big data analytics startup Altiscale Inc. this week, saying it would fold Altiscale's data cloud and Hadoop services into its existing SAP HANA cloud and emerging analytics efforts. Reports that SAP (NYSE: SAP) was ...
Cloud Security Attracting More Investors
September 28th, 2016 Comments Off on Cloud Security Attracting More Investors
As more data, enterprise applications and other workloads move to public clouds, greater attention and investment are going into cloud security as a way to protect data while managing information and cloud services. Those services in particular are attracting ...