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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).Surge Seen for Software-Defined Datacenter Market
September 27th, 2016 Comments Off on Surge Seen for Software-Defined Datacenter Market
The booming big data market along with growing demand for automated datacenter operations are spurring adoption of management and other services offered by software-defined datacenters, according to a new report that also forecasts a 32-percent annual growth rate for ...
Microsoft Launches Docker on Windows Server
September 26th, 2016 Comments Off on Microsoft Launches Docker on Windows Server
Container leader Docker is broadening a partnership with Microsoft to run Docker Engine and a datacenter management platform with Windows Server 2016. The partners rolled out the first technical details of Windows Server containers last August, calling it "the ...
Datadog Extends App Monitoring Tool
September 23rd, 2016 Comments Off on Datadog Extends App Monitoring Tool
As more enterprise data, applications and other workloads shift to the cloud, vendors of cloud monitoring services are expanding their offerings to help DevOps teams troubleshoot issues related to distributed applications running on hybrid clouds, application containers and other ...
Data Encryption in the Cloud Falls Short
September 22nd, 2016 Comments Off on Data Encryption in the Cloud Falls Short
As more data and enterprise applications are moved to public cloud services, a surprisingly high number of enterprises responding to a new cloud security survey said they are not encrypting their data and other cloud workloads. The cloud adoption ...
Targeting AWS, Oracle Adds Cloud Analytics
September 21st, 2016 Comments Off on Targeting AWS, Oracle Adds Cloud Analytics
As it challenges public cloud leader Amazon Web Services, Oracle Corp. is rolling out a cloud-based analytics package spanning data services, applications and infrastructure. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) unveiled its analytics cloud this week during a company event used by ...
DoE Expands HPC Manufacturing Effort
September 20th, 2016 Comments Off on DoE Expands HPC Manufacturing Effort
The Energy Department's Advanced Manufacturing Office is expanding industry access to its network of national laboratories to leverage supercomputing capabilities that can be used to model, simulate and analyze industrial processes and products. DoE's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing ...
Industrial IoT Framework Targets Security
September 19th, 2016 (2)
The brick and mortar of an industrial Internet of Things is arriving with a security framework designed to balance the safety and reliability requirements of industrial operations with an attempt to define the "trustworthiness" of emerging manufacturing networks. An ...
Dev Tool Startup GitLab Gains Traction With Investors
September 16th, 2016 Comments Off on Dev Tool Startup GitLab Gains Traction With Investors
Among the complaints of enterprises considering hybrid cloud deployments are integration issues, application incompatibility along with a lack of development tools and common APIs. Hence, vendors of collaborative software development tools and platforms are gaining traction with managed workflows ...
Cloud Adoption Rises, Server Sales Flat
September 15th, 2016 Comments Off on Cloud Adoption Rises, Server Sales Flat
While global server shipments remained roughly flat during the second quarter, cloud services are expected to billow this year on the strength of growing infrastructure and application software services. Market tracker Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) forecast this week that ...
SoftBank Invests in Bare Metal Cloud Startup
September 14th, 2016 Comments Off on SoftBank Invests in Bare Metal Cloud Startup
Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. continues to invest in enterprise infrastructure developers, leading an early funding round and forming a partnership with bare metal server automation startup Packet. The partners announced a $9.4 million Series A funding round on Wednesday ...