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).
EMC Storage Driving Dell Revenues
March 31st, 2017
Dell Technologies, the computer hardware and storage giant, reported brisk fourth-quarter hardware sales fueled by its acquisition of storage leader EMC. For its full fiscal year, however, the company reported a sizeable operating loss tied to the EMC deal. ...
IBM Jumps on Bandwagon for Cloud Databases
March 30th, 2017
Responding to what it says is growing demand for deploying SQL databases in the cloud, IBM this week rolled out a transactional database as a service on its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure. The move reflects the steady advance of cloud-native ...
IoT Deployments Fuel ‘Chaotic’ Cloud Security
March 29th, 2017
Cloud security remains "complex and chaotic" and the Internet of Things threatens to increase cloud security risks, warns a survey of IT security managers conducted during last month's RSA security conference. The survey of nearly 1,000 RSA attendees by ...
Brocade Upgrades Storage Switch for All-Flash Datacenters
March 28th, 2017
As all-flash arrays make inroads in the datacenter, switch makers are coming up with new access approaches leveraging all-flash storage as a way to break through network bottlenecks while adapting to data-driven workloads. With that in mind, networking switch ...
Oracle Cloud Plugs Into Smart Grid
March 27th, 2017
In an ongoing effort to boost its share of the public cloud market, Oracle rolled out a cloud service geared toward the smart grid and Internet of Things device management. The Oracle Utilities Operational Device Cloud Service announced at ...
‘API Economy’ Gathering Steam
March 24th, 2017
Mashape, the API marketplace delivering management tools for micro-services and an emerging category dubbed "micro-functions" said this week it has closed an $18 million funding round amid heavy enterprise demand for its "API Gateway" used to integrate and orchestrate ...
IoT Security Adopts a Platform Approach
March 23rd, 2017
As is often the case, network security tools are just now beginning to keep catch up with vulnerable Internet of Things deployments, particularly leading edge industrial IoT infrastructure. With that in mind, some security vendors are taking a platform ...
Avere Systems Adds Google as Investor
March 22nd, 2017
Avere Systems, the hybrid cloud data storage and management vendor, announced its latest funding round this week that included new investor Google Inc. The $14 million Series E round included existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture ...
IBM Launches Container Service Around Watson
March 21st, 2017
A new IBM cloud service targeting the development and deployment of cognitive applications will utilize the Docker container engine running on the Kubernetes container orchestrator. IBM's container service running on its Bluemix application development cloud was among a batch ...
Early Adopters Exercise Quantum Bits
March 21st, 2017
For a technology that’s usually characterized as far off and in a distant galaxy, quantum computing has been steadily picking up steam. Just how close real-world applications are depends on whom you talk to and for what kinds of ...
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