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).
Distributed Approaches Touted for IoT Data Storage
May 31st, 2016
The importance of data storage and the ability to scale storage resources has only grown as use cases and reliable estimates begin to roll in concerning the amount of sensor and other data points to be generated by various ...
Transatlantic Cable To Boost Cloud Services
May 27th, 2016
A new undersea fiber cable with an initial estimated capacity of 160 terabits per second announced this week by Facebook and Microsoft is billed as the first to connect the U.S. with southern Europe as demand for high-speed connections ...
Salesforce Shifts Core Services to AWS
May 26th, 2016
Salesforce, the customer relationship management leader, said it would expand its use of Amazon Web Services to deliver core cloud services as it extends its global infrastructure. The partners announced on Wednesday (May 25) that Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has ...
Cisco Extends Meraki Cloud to Communications
May 25th, 2016
Cisco Systems moved to scale its enterprise-networking strategy into a subscription model this week via its Meraki cloud-managed communications platform. Along with its entry into the voice communications market, the networking giant (NASDAQ: CSCO) unveiled an expanded cloud portfolio ...
Lenovo, Nutanix Team on Converged IT Platform
May 24th, 2016
Looking to expand the market for its server and hyper-converged infrastructure offerings, Lenovo and virtualization and storage integration partner Nutanix rolled out a new series of appliances this week aimed at small to medium-sized enterprises. Lenovo (HKSE: 992) said ...
Hospitals Take ‘Measured’ Approach to Cloud
May 20th, 2016
Under heavy ransomware attack, hospitals are expected to boost IT spending over the next several years with a particular emphasis on hybrid cloud services like disaster recovery as hackers attempt to hold patient records for ransom. Under cyber siege ...
Scale-Out Platform Emerges With Foxconn Backing
May 19th, 2016
Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is among the early investors in the enterprise infrastructure platform developer DriveScale Inc. Emerging from stealth mode this week, DriveScale Inc. announced a $15 million Series A funding round while releasing a "rack-scale" platform ...
MapR Rolls Hadoop Migration ‘Easy Button’
May 18th, 2016
MapR Technologies Inc. rolled out a migration service for its Hadoop distribution that targets what it says is growing demand for moving big data production installations to its converged data platform. San Jose-based MapR said this week its quick ...
Bandwidth Demands Drive Next-Gen Net Adoption
May 17th, 2016
Data networks are emerging as a bottleneck as enterprises cope with an explosion of traffic and a growing lack of bandwidth to handle streaming video services and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. That reality is driving deployment of next-generation ...
App Container Startups Remain VC Darlings
May 16th, 2016
Various segments of the application container movement continue to attract investment capital as the emerging technology slowly but steadily make its way into production. The latest example from the networking segment comes from Weaveworks Inc., which positions itself as ...
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