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).

Power9 Gives IBM Leg Up Against x86

August 31st, 2016 Comments Off

After offering OpenPower Summit attendees a limited preview in April, IBM is unveiling further details of its next-gen CPU, Power9, which the tech mainstay is counting on to regain market share ceded to rival Intel. Built on GlobalFoundries 14nm finFET ...

Flocker Gets a Flash Storage Manager

August 30th, 2016 Comments Off

With persistent storage emerging as a key issue in application container deployments, a flash storage vendor has partnered with container data management software specialist ClusterHQ to build a storage management plug-in for the open source container platform. Kaminario, an ...

Japan Touts Adjustable Crypto for IoT, Cloud

August 29th, 2016 Comments Off

Japanese engineers claimed to have developed the first secure "cryptoprocessor" able to adjust security levels on the fly without first upgrading the device itself. Previously, the researchers noted, encryption hardware required an upgrade as secure key lengths using approaches ...

Blockchains Unlocked to Boost IoT Interoperability

August 26th, 2016 (1)

In a step towards greater interoperability for the Internet of Things, a Bay Area company has launched a platform that allows chipmakers to register Bluetooth and other network-enabled chips on a public blockchain. The registry is intended to store ...

Bullish Hadoop Forecast Despite Spark Hype

August 25th, 2016 (2)

Despite major market inroads being made by Apache Spark, a new forecast estimates the global market for the Hadoop big data framework will continue to grow at a healthy clip through 2021, fueled in part by growing enterprise demand ...

IT Salaries Rise Along With Infrastructure Expansion

August 24th, 2016 Comments Off

Companies, especially U.S. companies, investing the most in servers and other infrastructure also are investing more in IT managers, a new salary survey found. The DevOps salary report released Wednesday (Aug. 24) by IT automation software specialist Puppet also ...

VMware Alliance Extends IoT ‘Agent’

August 23rd, 2016 Comments Off

Seeking to bridge the gap between IT and developers, VMware Inc. announced a series of alliances designed to speed deployment of an enterprise version of the Internet of Things (IoT). The company (NYSE: VMW) said Tuesday (Aug. 23) it ...

Container Vendors Downplay ‘Memory Pressure’ Concerns

August 22nd, 2016 Comments Off

Leading purveyors of application container infrastructure are downplaying a recent analysis that identifies a resource management feature in the Linux kernel as a potential "performance killer." LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) released an application container analysis last week after conducting several ...

Survey: Security Risks Soar Along With Cloud Workloads

August 19th, 2016 Comments Off

The shift from traditional datacenters to cloud infrastructure is exponentially expanding server workloads, thereby increasing enterprises' "attackable surface area" and, with it, security risks, a new vendor survey warns. CloudPassage Inc., a security platform vendor focusing on shielding servers ...

Container Testing Reveals ‘Memory Pressure’ on Apps

August 18th, 2016 Comments Off

With early adopters of application container technology completing early testing in multi-tenant settings, potential performance issues are beginning to surface. Among them, according to hyper-scaler LinkedIn, is a Linux kernel feature called "control groups" used with most containers to ...