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).

Docker Attracts Big Fish, Eyes Micro-Service Platform

April 14th, 2015 (0)

Application container specialist Docker Inc. announced its latest and greatest funding round this week totaling $95 million, attracting such heavyweights as financial services giants Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust. Company executives said the cash infusion, which follows hot on ...

New Windows Vulnerability at Large, Security Vendor Says

April 13th, 2015 (0)

Security developer Cylance recently uncovered a new technique for stealing log-in credentials from any Windows PC, tablet, or server – including those running previews of the not-yet-released Windows 10. Dubbed Redirect to SMB, Carnegie Mellon University CERT disclosed the ...

Currency Shifts Erode IT Spending Forecast

April 13th, 2015 (0)

The rapid and continuing rise of the U.S. dollar against most currencies will put a dent in global IT spending during 2015, a new forecast concludes. Market researcher Gartner called the rapid and largely unexpected rise of the dollar ...

Visions Differ on Moving Containers to Production

April 10th, 2015 (0)

The development of an ecosystem around application containers and related lightweight virtualizations technologies may be gaining traction as promoters of the technology move beyond the hype and focus on actually transitioning the technology to production environments. One manifestation of ...

IBM Eyes Object Storage on Tape

April 9th, 2015 (0)

Despite a steady stream of storage technology advances, IBM scientists insist there is still plenty of life left in left in tape storage along with new cloud applications like object storage. IBM Research this week claimed a new storage ...

HGST Puts Software Spin on Hard Drive Storage

April 8th, 2015 (0)

The waterfall of unstructured data pouring into datacenters is fueling the need for data and object storage approaches that retain all that stuff while at the same time making "useful' data accessible if and when needed. Emerging storage vendors ...

Cisco Survey Sees Evolving Security Threats

April 7th, 2015 (0)

IT infrastructure and the applications they deliver along with emerging open-source web frameworks remain the most attractive targets for hackers and cyber-criminals, according to new web security research data. Cisco Systems' annual security report released this week also found ...

Cisco Bolsters SDN Push with Embrane Deal

April 7th, 2015 (0)

Cisco Systems launched its software-defined networking protocol called OpFlex last year as a counter to OpenFlow, a move that drew a growing list of partners. Among them is Embrane Inc., a Cisco SDN service partner and a "provider of ...

CoreOS Platform Looks to Scale Containers

April 6th, 2015 (0)

CoreOS Inc., the hyperscale Linux operating system specialist, has been steadily rolling out application container and distributed system components over the last few months. Now, the San Francisco-based company is launching a new software stack designed to bring container ...

Big Data ‘Center of Gravity’ Shifting to Cloud

April 3rd, 2015 (0)

As practitioners of big data analytics seek to bring computing power closer to the data rather than the other way around, the cloud is emerging as the preferred platform for increasingly sophisticated data crunching by more industries adopting big ...