Control
Grid Engine Brings Massive Scale To Docker, Eyes Kubernetes
Sometimes, the customers get out ahead of the vendor community and they lead. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
Kubernetes Has A Ways To Go To Scale Like Google, Mesos
As the first major open source code ever donated by Google to the world and a key component of a containerized software stack, the Kubernetes container controller has generated a lot of enthusiasm and is seeing widespread and early adoption for those who want to deploy Docker or rkt containers to host their applications. …
Cloud
Arista Wields Tomahawks In 25G Ethernet Price War
It looks like networking price war is getting set to break out in the largest datacenters of the world, and this is precisely what Google and Microsoft had in mind when they formed the 25G Ethernet consortium back in July 2014. …
Compute
Back To The Future Of Scale
There are many different kinds of scale that system architects are wrestling with, and over the five decades of the modern computer business, a number of techniques have been employed, often concurrently in the same system, to try to goose the overall performance of machinery over time. …
AI
Airbnb Shares The Keys To Its Infrastructure
There was something ironic about meeting Mike Curtis, the vice president of engineering at Airbnb, in a hotel in lower Manhattan. …
AI
Spark Makes Hadoop Mainstream, Cloudera Jumps In
It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific like MapReduce Engine. …
Cloud
Intel’s Plan To Grow Its Share Of Datacenter Wallets
The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …
AI
How Can IBM Power8 Win Deals Away From Intel Xeon?
This is not the first time that Big Blue has found itself the underdog in the datacenter, and it probably will not be the last time, either. …
Enterprise
The Nitty Gritty Of In Memory Computing
As noted at the beginning of this article series last week, an initial dive into in-memory computing meant questioning whether this was just another of those buzz words or whether there was some meat behind it. …
Compute
Custom Servers Cool, Custom Storage White Hot
If the server and storage markets are bellwethers for the underlying strength of the economy, as we at The Next Platform believe, then the global economy has been perhaps more healthy than other indicators might have been pointing to. …