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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).

Cloud Data Manager Rubrik is Flush With Cash

May 3rd, 2017 Comments Off on Cloud Data Manager Rubrik is Flush With Cash
Rubrik, the cloud data management startup and cash magnet, said this week it has completed its latest funding round, generating a hefty $180 million and raising its venture capital haul to $292 million in four funding rounds. Founded in ...

AWS, Red Hat Partner on Containers

May 2nd, 2017 Comments Off on AWS, Red Hat Partner on Containers
Red Hat and Amazon Web Services are extending their partnership to allow customers to deploy AWS services from within Red Hat's OpenShift container platform. The partners announced the new hybrid cloud collaboration during this week's Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) ...

Facebook Datacenters Get ‘Express Backbone’

May 1st, 2017 Comments Off on Facebook Datacenters Get ‘Express Backbone’
Hyper-scalers are being forced to become more creative in breaking network bottlenecks as they cope with greater bandwidth demand for storage backup of video and other "rich" content along with growing processing requirements across far-flung datacenters running analytics and ...

API Specs, Platforms Emerge

April 28th, 2017 Comments Off on API Specs, Platforms Emerge
Just under a year after acquiring API management specialist 3scale, Red Hat rolled out a "containerized" platform for managing APIs in the datacenter. Separately, Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) released the latest version of its JBoss messaging platform designed to ...

Survey: Companies Unprepared for New EU Data Rules

April 26th, 2017 Comments Off on Survey: Companies Unprepared for New EU Data Rules
The clock is ticking on new data privacy regulations set to enter into force next year, prompting enterprise data management vendors to issue dire warnings about mandatory regulatory compliance and—not coincidentally--offering turnkey solutions. Enforcement of the European Union's General ...

Watson Deal Targets Industrial Apps

April 25th, 2017 Comments Off on Watson Deal Targets Industrial Apps
Artificial intelligence will hit the factory floor and the smart grid as an automation specialist joins forces with IBM Watson to being real-time decision-making to those and other industrial applications. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Tuesday (April 25) it would ...

Big Data Drives Big Storage

April 24th, 2017 Comments Off on Big Data Drives Big Storage
The healthcare sector along with the explosion of connected devices are driving the big data storage market, according to a new survey of the global storage market that pegs annual growth over the next decade at more than 20 ...

OpenStack Maturing, User Survey Finds

April 21st, 2017 Comments Off on OpenStack Maturing, User Survey Finds
OpenStack proponents said their latest user survey shows that the open-source cloud-computing platform has emerged as a mature infrastructure technology with broader enterprise adoption and more deployments in production. The latest OpenStack user study reveals that two-thirds of deployments ...

Object Storage is Latest Front in Cloud Price Wars

April 20th, 2017 Comments Off on Object Storage is Latest Front in Cloud Price Wars
Storage, not computing resources, has emerged as the latest battleground in the public cloud price wars, according to an industry index. Market tracker 451 Research said this week the cloud storage battle lines were drawn during the third quarter ...

Oracle Embraces Containers to Speed Cloud Apps

April 19th, 2017 Comments Off on Oracle Embraces Containers to Speed Cloud Apps
Oracle's databases and developer tools can now be pulled as images from a Docker container registry as the partners look to speed development of cloud-native database applications. Oracle becomes the latest enterprise IT vendor to jump on the Docker ...
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