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).
Data Protection Goes to the Cloud
August 2nd, 2016
Growing deployment of distributed applications on scale-out and cloud databases has, vendors claim, fueled the need to protect critical application data, resulting in data governance standards that mandate backup and recovery capabilities as part of the application stack. Those ...
Mesosphere Touts ‘Container 2.0’
August 1st, 2016
In a bid to jumpstart what it calls a "Container 2.0" movement, application container pioneer Mesosphere announced partnerships with big data vendors designed to push distributed application technology to the next level. Mesosphere said Monday (Aug. 1) it is ...
Deployment Hurdles Emerge as Containers Go Mainstream
July 22nd, 2016
Application container deployment is accelerating as security and persistent storage concerns are addressed and enterprises seek to capitalize on the potential efficiencies, flexibility and long-term savings offered by distributed applications. The latest measure of container deployment released this week ...
‘Cloud Shift’ Gains Momentum, Spending Surge Seen
July 21st, 2016
So-called "cloud first" strategies are expected to propel IT spending over the next five years as more enterprises transform themselves into digital businesses, a new forecast predicts. In a cloud spending survey released Thursday (July 21), market watcher Gartner ...
It’s 3 a.m. — Do You Know What Your Cluster’s Doing?
July 20th, 2016
Performance challenges in Hadoop environments are par for the course as organizations attempt to capture the benefits of big data. The growing ecosystem of tools and applications (including new analytics platforms) for Hadoop is becoming increasingly distributed, making the ...
Datacenter Security Attracts More Investors
July 19th, 2016
Efforts to lock down security in datacenters continue to expand as operators seek to assure enterprise customers they can meet increasingly strict regulatory and other data governance rules even as operations are scaled. That requirement is generating interest among ...
Eyeing IoT Expansion, SoftBank Buys ARM
July 18th, 2016
Chip intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. is being acquired by Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group in a bid to provide more of the semiconductor technology underlying future networks of connects sensors and smart devices. SoftBank (TYO: 9984) plans to ...
AccuWeather’s Compute Strategy Takes Forecasting to the Cloud at Scale
July 15th, 2016
Weather and the cloud go together. Take AccuWeather, the State College, PA-based consumer and commercial weather services provider. Demand for weather forecast information from media outlets, from business customers and, most of all, from the public fluctuates widely (though ...
Enterprises Embrace Machine Learning
July 15th, 2016
Machine learning technology is poised to move from niche data analytics applications to mainstream enterprise big data campaigns over the next two years, a recent vendor survey suggests. SoftServe, a software and application development specialist based in Austin, Texas, ...
SIEM Gains as Consumer Security Software Fades
July 15th, 2016
Security information and event management (SIEM) software fueled a robust global security software market in 2015 even as sales of consumer security software declined sharply last year, according to the latest accounting by market analyst Gartner Inc. Gartner (NYSE: ...
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