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).

Scaled Storage Boosts Climate Modeling Efforts

May 11th, 2015 (0)

Climate research projects based on big data analysis increasingly rely on big storage to track historical patterns and extrapolate future trends in a research area with countless variables. The open source nature of climate data has made access to ...

Is the IoT Really ‘Internet of Sensors’?

May 8th, 2015 (0)

A contrarian view of the conceptual framework known as the Internet to Things asserts that it should really be called the Internet of Sensors. "Companies that embrace the IoS and not the IoT will be the winners in the ...

Spec Spat: Red Hat Warns of Container ‘Fragmentation’

May 7th, 2015 (0)

With parts of the emerging application container infrastructure moving ahead on separate tracks, a key player is reiterating its support for a set of open standards for packaging, orchestration and distribution of application containers. The goal of the container ...

Hybrid WAN Startup CloudGenix Raises $25M

May 6th, 2015 (0)

Along with most everything else in the datacenter, networks, including hybrid wide-area networks, are increasingly being managed by software. That software-defined approach has attracted the attention of investors who this week poured another $25 million into CloudGenix, one of ...

IEEE: Computing ‘Earthquake’ Needed As Scaling Stalls

May 6th, 2015 (0)

Computer scientists worried about the end of computing as we know it have been banging heads for several years looking for ways to return to the historical exponential scaling of computer performance. What is needed, say the proponents of ...

Robbins Succeeds Chambers at Cisco

May 4th, 2015 (0)

Chuck Robbins, a 17-year veteran of Cisco Systems, was named Monday (May 4) to succeed Silicon Valley icon John Chambers as CEO of the global networking giant. Robbins' ascension to the top post at Cisco comes as the networking ...

Google, Others Back App Container Spec

May 4th, 2015 (0)

An application container specification that defines how to build and run pre-packaged apps has gained some big-name backing as an ecosystem emerges to "secure the backend of the Internet," roll out distributed systems and bring web-like scaling to the ...

OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades

May 1st, 2015 (0)

The release of OpenStack Kilo this week, the foundation's 11th offering, includes a batch of compute, storage, networking and provisioning features intended to extend the platform to fit workloads with bare metal and application containers. In releasing Kilo Thursday ...

Facebook Combines OSquery Tool With RocksDB

April 30th, 2015 (0)

Facebook reported progress this week toward integrating its open source osquery tool with the open source RocksDB that serves as an embedded database to store and speed up access to data. Facebook opened up osquery late last year. The ...

Spy Tools Come to the Cloud

April 29th, 2015 (0)

Cloud computing is increasingly being used for intelligence-gathering and "threat analysis" as government vendors like Amazon Web Services join forces with analytics outfits that are meshing cognitive computing and other forms of data analysis with cloud computing horsepower. Among ...