AI
Making Cassandra Do Azure, But Not Windows
When Microsoft says that it is embracing Linux as a peer to Windows, it is not kidding. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
Why Clouds Are A Risky Proposition For Big Banks And Brokers
Big commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, stock peddlers, and other financial firms are in the business of making money from money, and when they do it right, they are successful because they know how to gather and process information in such a way that they manage risk. …
Compute
IBM Draws OpenPower Line In The X86 Sand
History moves in spirals, not straight lines, widening our experience and our options, coming around again and again with variations on similar themes. …
Connect
Microsoft Crafts Homegrown Linux For Azure Switches
Microsoft doesn’t just love running Linux workloads on the Azure cloud. …
Compute
Three Secrets Of How Facebook Copes With Scale
The entire premise of language and the storage of communication is founded on a principle that we can learn from the mistakes and successes of others. …
Enterprise
Forging Server SAN Hybrids To Fit The Enterprise
The three things that large enterprises want out of hyperconverged storage, and that EMC will be bringing to bear with its ScaleIO server-SAN hybrid, are scalability, performance, and ease of consumption. …
Cloud
The Cloud Rains Down On Enterprises
Even years after the global economies have pulled out of the Great Recession, the pressure is on IT departments the world over to do more with the same budget or less. …
Control
Grid Engine Brings Massive Scale To Docker, Eyes Kubernetes
Sometimes, the customers get out ahead of the vendor community and they lead. …
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. …