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).

Google Buys Cloud Software Startup

August 17th, 2016 (0)

In an attempt to keep pace with its cloud rivals, Google has acquired a cloud enterprise services startup and its platform for buying and selling enterprise software in the cloud. Orbitera's platform helps independent software vendors and systems integrators ...

Blockchain VC Funding Grows With Deployments

August 16th, 2016 (0)

Blockchain and other "crypto-currency" technologies are gathering momentum as investors continue to pour money into digital transaction approaches while banks shift from pilot projects to production deployments. According to estimates by U.K. market analyst Juniper Research, venture capitalists invested ...

Micron, Intel Prepare to Launch XPoint Memory

August 15th, 2016 (0)

Micron Technology Inc. used last week's Flash Memory Summit to roll out its new line of 3-D XPoint memory technology jointly developed with Intel Corp. while demonstrating the technology in solid-state drives. Micron (NASDAQ: MU) claimed its Quantx line ...

U.S. Open Source Policy Seeks to Leverage Code Reuse

August 12th, 2016 (0)

The Obama administration has released a new federal open-source policy for improving access to software developed by or for federal agencies. The new policy released this week by Tony Scott, the Obama administration's CIO, "requires new custom-developed source code ...

Startup Touts ‘Mixed Reality’ for IoT apps

August 11th, 2016 (0)

A Google-backed startup emerging from stealth mode this week is pitching a concept called the "real world web," a cloud-based platform designed to capitalize on emerging virtual reality technology to deliver "mixed reality." Big league ballparks are among the ...

Virtual Net Guides Containers Across Multiple Clouds

August 10th, 2016 (0)

The latest release of a network virtualization overlay is designed to connect multiple OpenStack cloud implementations while providing a software-defined networking (SDN) approach to emerging container orchestration engines making their way into production. San Francisco-based network virtualization specialist Midokura ...

IT Security Shifts From Reactive to Proactive

August 9th, 2016 (0)

With security threats growing more sophisticated, the market for information security products is expected to boom over the next five years, led by security testing, IT outsourcing and data loss prevention offerings. Market watcher Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) said ...

Mostly Cloudy: IBM Weather Unit to Guide Drones

August 5th, 2016 (0)

Among the array of sensors being incorporated in Internet of Things architectures are fleets of drones being used to deliver cloud-based data such as hyper-local weather reports. The Weather Company, a cloud-based weather data platform acquired by IBM (NYSE: ...

Boeing Uses Stat Data to Get the Lead Out

August 4th, 2016 (0)

The manufacturing sector that is leading the way in factory automation and the leading edge of the Internet of Things, the so-called industrial IoT, is increasingly relying on statistical data to develop simulation tools that could be used for ...

Intel Among Investors in Cognitive Computing Startup

August 3rd, 2016 (0)

The scaling of machine intelligence technology in the enterprise continues apace with another successful venture funding round reported by a cognitive computing startup. CognitiveScale of Austin, Texas, said Tuesday (Aug. 2) that Intel Capital and Norwest Venture Partners led ...