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).

Facebook Datacenters Nearing Green Energy Goal

August 28th, 2018 (0)

Hyperscale datacenter operators continue to strive for energy efficiency as most struggle to keep pace with more demanding workloads. Progress is being reported on at least one front: Facebook said this week it has met its renewable energy goals ...

VMware Buys Cloud Manager, Partners With AWS

August 27th, 2018 (0)

VMware said it will acquire CloudHealth Technologies, a provider of tools for managing cloud costs and resources. Separately, VMware announced during a company event this week in Las Vegas it will collaborate with Amazon Web Services on a relational ...

Data Scientists, Not AutoML, Driving Model Development

August 24th, 2018 (0)

As machine learning technology matures and moves into the mainstream, analysts are attempting to figure out who within organizations is building machine learning models used in production and what tools and methodologies they are using. It turns out that ...

Network Automation Remains Elusive, Survey Finds

August 23rd, 2018 (0)

Enterprise networks, the plumbing of the vaunted digital transformation, are beginning to catch up with the rest the IT operation as network managers look seriously at automation tools while sorting through the proliferation of cloud “visibility” frameworks required to ...

Startup Focuses on Updating IoT Devices

August 22nd, 2018 (0)

As consumer angst grows over Internet of Things security and performance, IoT startups are surfacing with schemes for safeguarding IoT devices from evolving attacks while fixing a rash of software glitches. Chip makers such as Arm Ltd. are investing ...

Pure Storage Acquires Cloud Backup Startup

August 21st, 2018 (0)

Pure Storage has boosted its ability to manage big data migrating to the cloud with the acquisition of privately-held StorReduce. Terms of the acquisition, which closed earlier this month, were not disclosed. StorReduce, Sunnyvale, Calif., was founded in 2014. ...

HPE Upgrades its Cloud Services Manager

August 21st, 2018 (0)

As application containers handle more production workloads and the de facto standard orchestration tool Kubernetes is used to scale those deployments, more cloud-native applications can be “built once and run anywhere.” To achieve that goal, say infrastructure vendors, enterprises ...

Talend Links Big Data to Azure SQL Warehouse

August 17th, 2018 (0)

Data integrators continue to roll out connections between huge data stores and public cloud data warehouses. The latest comes from Talend, which this week unveiled a data fabric “uploader” designed to help ingest big data to Microsoft’s upgraded cloud ...

Startup Netifi Eyes ‘Reactive’ Microservices

August 15th, 2018 (0)

A microservices startup built upon open-source software designed to replace the HTTP data transfer protocol has attracted seed funding from early investors led by Dell Technologies Capital. Netifi, founded last year by cloud software specialists who previously worked at ...

‘Zero Trust’ Vendor Gains U.S. Cloud Approval

August 13th, 2018 (0)

As mobile workers access more corporate data stored in the cloud, a secure network architecture called “Zero Trust” is emerging as a way of maintaining control of sensitive data while providing greater visibility into how data is being used ...