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).

Intel Heads List of Strong 3Q Tech Results

October 27th, 2017 (0)

Intel Corp. reported strong revenue growth during its third quarter as its "data-centric" strategy begins to take hold in key technology sectors like all-flash storage. Meanwhile, it is readying a new AI chip. Intel was among several leading U.S. ...

AI, Machine Learning Among Top Cloud Workloads

October 27th, 2017 (0)

More evidence is emerging of the inexorable shift of analytics and related workloads to the cloud, with adopters feeling more confident about hybrid infrastructure in their search for ways to become more agile, a new cloud study finds. While ...

HPE Launches AI Development Effort

October 25th, 2017 (0)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is launching a suite of platforms and services aimed at accelerating development and adoption of AI, with an initial focus on deep learning. HPE joins a growing list of enterprise vendors delivering new tools, some of ...

Cisco, Google Join Forces on Hybrid Cloud

October 25th, 2017 (0)

Cisco Systems and Google announced a hybrid cloud partnership this week designed to securely deliver distributed enterprise applications and services across Google Cloud Platform and on-premise infrastructure. The partners said the partnership reflects the enterprise shift to multi-cloud deployments ...

Servers On Steroids Speed Stock Swaps

October 24th, 2017 (0)

Executing stock trades often comes down to being first in the queue of traders. Hence, developers of high-frequency trading platforms that connect trading servers to networks focus on reducing latency to nanoseconds to boost so-called "tick-to-trade" networking performance. Solarflare, ...

ARM Launches IoT Security Framework

October 23rd, 2017 (0)

ARM is launching a "secure core" approach to bulletproofing the Internet of Things that addresses network security at the microcontroller level. The approach introduced at a company event this week seeks to provide a framework for embedding security into ...

DoD Looks to Break Cloud Security ‘Bottleneck’

October 20th, 2017 (0)

The Pentagon is looking for ways to recast is its cloud security guidelines as a way to accelerate the department's slow migration to cloud computing. Meanwhile, key cloud providers to the U.S. military are extending their capabilities via acquisitions ...

Latest DevOps Survey Finds Enterprise Gains

October 19th, 2017 (0)

DevOps, the intersection of software development, IT operations and quality assurance, is gaining adherents as enterprises look for tools and practices for speeding the delivery of applications and services while meeting compliance requirements. A new vendor survey finds that ...

Docker Adds Kubernetes Support

October 18th, 2017 (0)

The long-running (by enterprise IT standards) competition between the Google-backed Kubernetes container orchestrator and Docker's Swarm appears to have a winner: Docker announced this week the enterprise edition of its pioneering application container platform would offer native support for ...

Survey: Equifax Hack Highlights Open Source Insecurity

October 17th, 2017 (0)

With open source software accounting for more than half of some products, process gaps are emerging for managing security. Vendors pushing approaches for monitoring software supply chains point to the recent Equifax breach affecting about 143 million consumers as ...