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).
Linus Torvalds on Containers, IoT, Security
August 19th, 2015
There was a Linus Torvalds sighting this week in Seattle. The father of the Linux kernel that underpins the open source movement showed up at the annual Linux conference to briefly address issues ranging from application containers and the ...
Linux Effort Targets Secure Code Development
August 18th, 2015
As software bugs, vulnerabilities and other security gaps lead to a seemingly endless string of high-profile breaches, the Linux Foundation is expanding an infrastructure initiative to include a certification program and development tools needed to promote secure coding practices. ...
Docker Deployment: A View From the Trenches
August 17th, 2015
Deploying Linux containers in production and at scale remains problematic, particularly given ongoing security concerns. Docker container engineers demonstrated a new security feature dubbed Docker Content Trust during this week's LinuxCon in Seattle that makes it possible to verify ...
IBM Unveils Linux Mainframe
August 17th, 2015
The Linux mainframe servers rolled out this week by IBM will target the inexorable enterprise shift to hybrid clouds and growing performance requirements as a diversity of workloads like real-time transaction monitoring and other business analytics applications the datacenter. ...
IBM Adds Analytics, Data Warehousing to Bluemix
August 14th, 2015
IBM is launching a new set of analytics and data warehousing services on its Bluemix platform-as-a-service in a push to add more analytics capabilities to cloud-based applications. Among the Bluemix upgrades announced on Thursday (Aug. 13) are streaming analytics ...
The (Cloud) World is Coming to Columbus
August 13th, 2015
The technology forecast for Columbus, Ohio, is mostly cloudy. The capital of The Buckeye State has attracted so many datacenters from the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM over the last year that the city is claiming ...
Red Hat Upgrades Container Management
August 12th, 2015
Red Hat is emphasizing application container management, security and provisioning in the latest releases of its Satellite management suite for Red Hat Linux 7. Red Hat said Wednesday (Aug. 12) that Satellite 6.1 addresses the gradual shift toward container-based ...
A Raft of Flash Options Emerge for Datacenters
August 11th, 2015
A batch of PCI Express storage devices emerged from this week's Flash Memory Summit targeting hyperscale and enterprise datacenters that are gradually incorporating PCIe for online transaction processing and other big data workloads. PMC-Sierra was among the PCIe storage ...
Ubiquitous Connected Devices Drive IoT Forecasts
August 10th, 2015
The potential of the Internet of Things rests with "the huge number of things that are not connected today," a universe that extends beyond connected machines to objects and eventually humans, an industry analyst asserts. "It's that delta between ...
VCE Study Makes Case for Converged IT
August 7th, 2015
A new market survey underscores the advantages of converged IT infrastructure as a means of achieving capacity flexibility as well as a way to reduce cost while speeding the return on investment in new cloud infrastructure. The IT infrastructure ...
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