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).

Telecom Carriers Prefer Juniper, Cisco

January 12th, 2018 (0)

The quest for bigger network pipes need to transport big data is driving the market for Ethernet switching and other enterprise network equipment. Industry tracker IHS Markit reported this week that a quartet of router and Ethernet switch manufacturers ...

Dual Role Emerges For Microservices

January 11th, 2018 (0)

Microservices, the agile architecture on which applications are built as a collection of different smaller services rather than an entire application, are being used to rework existing applications along with new IT initiatives, a vendor survey found. Red Hat, ...

Juggling Security With Greater Data Access

January 10th, 2018 (0)

Securing critical data while simultaneously making it more accessible is the challenge for enterprise IT departments, a new vendor survey finds. In a report released Wednesday (Jan. 10), big data integration specialist Syncsort said it examined what data protection ...

Machine Learning Fuels U.S. Patent Surge

January 9th, 2018 (0)

Technology innovators intensified efforts over the last year to secure intellectual property rights on transformative technologies ranging from AI to blockchain platforms. While IBM maintained its overwhelming lead in U.S. patent awards, Chinese manufacturers continue to make steady progress ...

Memory Boom Propels Samsung Past Intel

January 4th, 2018 (0)

The turbulent—and profitable—memory chip market has a new leader: Samsung Electronics has overtaken Intel Corp. as the world's largest memory supplier, ending Intel's 25-year reign. Gartner reported Thursday (Jan. 4) that the South Korean electronics giant surpassed Intel during ...

Microsoft Extends Hybrid Cloud Push With Avere Deal

January 3rd, 2018 (0)

Microsoft continued its foray into the high-end cloud storage sector with a deal this week to acquire hybrid cloud data storage and management vendor Avere Systems. The deal announced on Wednesday (Jan. 3) follows Microsoft's acquisition last August of ...

NodeSource Raises Cash as Node.js Expands

January 2nd, 2018 (0)

Capping what could be called The Year of Open Source, Node.js JavaScript runtime vendor NodeSource announced the results of its latest funding round on Christmas Day 2017, raising its total venture investments to more than $34 million since its ...

Blockchain Backers Planning Enterprise Rollouts

December 22nd, 2017 (0)

Among the growing list of blockchain initiatives launched this year, the open-source Hyperledger Project is gathering momentum with the release of its first production implementations, including the introduction of its first blockchain framework for enterprises. Launched last year by ...

Net Virtualization Gets Real in 2017

December 20th, 2017 (0)

Despite a slowdown in global investment in networking technology, particularly in Asia, 2017 is seen as the year when network virtualization came of age. Meanwhile, industry groups are rolling out open networking platforms aimed at accelerating deployments in the ...

FPGAs, ASICs Seen Driving Machine Learning

December 18th, 2017 (0)

As machine learning makes steady progress in enterprise datacenters, industry observers are forecasting the emergence of a new wave of machine learning chips in the coming year, a market currently dominated by graphics processors. In it's annual technology forecast, ...