With the sale of its System x division to Lenovo Group last fall and the winding down of its BlueGene massively parallel computing line, IBM lost a lot of its market presence in the high performance computing space. …
One of the founding premises of this publication is that companies want to build platforms – complete stacks of hardware and systems software – or use those built by others that are tailored specifically to run their applications. …
Hot on the heels of Hewlett-Packard announcing its OpenSwitch open source switch operating system, Big Switch Networks, a provider of software-defined networking tools based on the OpenFlow protocol, and Facebook, one of the world’s largest hyperscalers and an adamant proponent of open networking, have crafted their own open source network operating system. …
The cloud doesn’t just provide utility pricing on compute, storage and networking. …
Gannett, the $3.2 billion media giant that owns USA Today and 92 other newspapers in the United States, is undergoing massive changes in its business, and over the past few years its technology platform has been in the process of being completely overhauled to make it more nimble. …
We hear the rumors and scuttlebutt, just like many of you probably do. …
The mantra of the hyperscalers is “infrastructure as code,” meaning that all layers of hardware and systems software should be configurable through software, not by humans working manually through command line interfaces. …
The open networking movement just got a little bit more open. …
We have said it before here at The Next Platform, and we will say it again. …
Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used as a the repository of record for all kinds of data. …
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