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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).

Commentary: Ultimately, It’s All Just DevOps

March 16th, 2015 Comments Off on Commentary: Ultimately, It’s All Just DevOps
The recent EnterpriseTech article, DevOps Emerges in the Enterprise, examines industry analyst Gartner's assertion that DevOps is not a market. Instead, the market researcher insists it is a loose collection of tools used in a specific philosophical way. Do ...

Startup Qumulo Bets Data Trumps Storage

March 16th, 2015 Comments Off on Startup Qumulo Bets Data Trumps Storage
A month after announcing a $40 million funding round, scale-out intelligent storage startup Qumulo Inc. has emerged from stealth mode with a "data-aware" network-attached storage offering dubbed Qumulo Core. The startup also revealed a batch of new customers ranging ...

Linux Skills in High Demand, Survey Finds

March 6th, 2015 (1)
Coinciding with a robust U.S. jobs report for February, the Linux Foundation says recruiters remain "in hot pursuit of Linux talent." According to the 2015 Linux Jobs Report released this week, a whopping 97 percent of hiring managers surveyed ...

SanDisk Touts ‘Big Data’ Flash Storage

March 4th, 2015 Comments Off on SanDisk Touts ‘Big Data’ Flash Storage
SanDisk said it is targeting big data workloads with an all-flash storage scheme touted as overcoming a key price barrier for an all-flash storage array. The flash storage specialist also is targeting its InifiFlash storage system released on Tuesday ...

HGST Acquires Object Storage Specialist Amplidata

March 3rd, 2015 Comments Off on HGST Acquires Object Storage Specialist Amplidata
In a bid to boost its software-defined storage portfolio as its pushes deeper into enterprise storage, Western Digital's HGST unit announced a deal to acquire Amplidata, a developer of object storage software for cloud datacenters. Financial terms of the ...

Federal IT Reform Bill Headed For Passage

December 8th, 2014 Comments Off on Federal IT Reform Bill Headed For Passage
Legislation that would speed consolidation the federal government's more than 9,600 datacenters while centralizing the authority of agency chief information officers is expected to be approved by Congress this week as part of a military spending bill. A stripped ...

Docker Momentum Builds with IBM, VMware Deals

December 5th, 2014 Comments Off on Docker Momentum Builds with IBM, VMware Deals
The application container ecosystem continues to expand as heavy hitters like IBM and VMware embrace Docker and other container deployment approaches to delivering distributed apps to the cloud. VMware has announced technology integrations with Docker and the Kubernetes container ...

Storage Roadmap Sees 100 TB Drives by ’25

December 5th, 2014 Comments Off on Storage Roadmap Sees 100 TB Drives by ’25
A technology roadmap for the storage industry is forecasting a ten-fold increase in hard drive storage capacity over the next decade as new recording technologies come online to boost areal densities. The Advanced Storage Technology Consortium's technology roadmap extending ...

Data Security Concerns Grow Along with Threats

December 3rd, 2014 Comments Off on Data Security Concerns Grow Along with Threats
As Sony Pictures learned the hard way this week, the relatively small cost of backing up your data is worth the expense and trouble. Still, a survey released this week by storage giant EMC found that the vast majority ...

HP Doubles Down On Infrastructure

December 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on HP Doubles Down On Infrastructure
Hewlett-Packard is "doubling down on infrastructure" as it splits itself in half, a process that should be completed by November 2015, CEO Meg Whitman told attendees of its Discover event in Barcelona, Spain. Whitman sought to portray a proud ...
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