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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).

Juniper Survey Shows Networks In Cloud Transition

May 12th, 2014 Comments Off on Juniper Survey Shows Networks In Cloud Transition
The shift to cloud services increasingly requires changes in network infrastructure to support the rollout, a networking industry-sponsored study found. Juniper Networks commissioned the hybrid cloud study earlier this year from market researcher Forrester Research. When respondents were asked ...

Cloud Foundry Adds CumuLogic Database Service Broker

May 9th, 2014 Comments Off on Cloud Foundry Adds CumuLogic Database Service Broker
The Cloud Foundry Foundation's ecosystem continues to expand with the addition of a database service broker that would help bolster the cloud initiative's backend data services. CumuLogic, a private database-as-a-service (DBaaS) vendor, said it is releasing a technical preview ...

EMC Buys Flash Startup, Rolls Out Hybrid Cloud

May 7th, 2014 Comments Off on EMC Buys Flash Startup, Rolls Out Hybrid Cloud
EMC said this week it will acquire privately held DSSD Inc., a secretive developer of a flash storage architecture geared to I/O-intensive in-memory databases and big data workloads. Separately, EMC announced a new hybrid cloud offering EMC said the ...

HP To Invest $1 Billion In Helion Cloud Infrastructure

May 7th, 2014 Comments Off on HP To Invest $1 Billion In Helion Cloud Infrastructure
Hewlett-Packard said it expects to invest more than $1 billion over the next two years to deliver and support a "converged infrastructure" that includes cloud products and services geared to hybrid IT platforms. HP's cloud offerings, OpenStack-based technologies, and ...

VMware Props SAP HANA Up On Hypervisors

May 7th, 2014 Comments Off on VMware Props SAP HANA Up On Hypervisors
VMware and SAP announced the release this week of the German software vendor's in-memory computing platform, HANA, running on top of VMware's vSphere 5.5 server virtualization software. The agreement means vSphere has now achieved production support for HANA, the ...

EMC Elastic Storage Appliance Takes On Public Clouds

May 6th, 2014 Comments Off on EMC Elastic Storage Appliance Takes On Public Clouds
EMC rolled out an elastic cloud storage appliance that targets the hyperscale cloud storage infrastructure market. The appliance is the result of a research project known as "Project Nile." The company also announced a new version of a software-defined ...

HP Pitches Cost-Cutting Datacenter Facilities Service

May 3rd, 2014 Comments Off on HP Pitches Cost-Cutting Datacenter Facilities Service
HP is rolling out what it calls its Facility-as-a-Service datacenter approach that aims to provide an alternative means of sourcing datacenters by going beyond current colocation models. Besides giving customers more flexibility and control over datacenter operations, HP emphasized ...

Eight Enterprise Players Join Cloud Foundry Foundation

May 1st, 2014 Comments Off on Eight Enterprise Players Join Cloud Foundry Foundation
Eight new financial and technology companies have joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, nearly doubling membership in the group that is promoting an open-source, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for enterprise computing. Pivotal Software, an enterprise PaaS provider coordinating the transition to the ...

Red Hat Boosts Storage Capabilities With Inktank Deal

May 1st, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Boosts Storage Capabilities With Inktank Deal
Red Hat is getting serious about storage and has snapped up Inktank, whose Ceph Enterprise technology provides file system, object and block storage software deployed by enterprises in public and private clouds. The software is increasingly paired with OpenStack, ...

CloudVolumes Workload Manager Targets Hybrid Clouds

May 1st, 2014 Comments Off on CloudVolumes Workload Manager Targets Hybrid Clouds
Virtualization management software maker CloudVolumes is rolling out a new release of its eponymous tool stack, targeting hybrid clouds. The company has also announced a new capability it calls AppCloaking along with enhanced support for XenApp, the old-school application ...
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