Monitoring Is Different For Ephemeral Infrastructure
The cloud doesn’t just provide utility pricing on compute, storage and networking. …
The cloud doesn’t just provide utility pricing on compute, storage and networking. …
We have said it before here at The Next Platform, and we will say it again. …
For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. …
In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud infrastructure. …
We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …
If Google knows a lot about one thing, it is that developers do not want to spend a lot of time setting up infrastructure just so they can create applications that chew on lots of data to run the business. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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