No one expects that setting up management tools for complex distributed computing frameworks to be an easy thing, but there is always room for improvement–and always a chance to take out unnecessary steps and improve the automated deployment of such tools. …
We have been convinced for many years that machine learning, the kind of artificial intelligence that actually works in practice, not in theory, would be a key element of the next platform. …
There are a lot of moving parts in a modern platform, and in this regard, they are no different from the platforms made a generation earlier. …
IT managers at the world’s largest organizations have a lot of reasons to envy hyperscalers, including the fact that they seem to be flush with cash and it looks like they can buy or build just about anything their hearts desire. …
While innovators in the HPC and hyperscale arenas usually have the talent and often have the desire to get into the code for the tools that they use to create their infrastructure, most enterprises want their software with a bit more fit and finish, and if they can get it so it is easy to operate and yet still in some ways open, they are willing to pay a decent amount of cash to get commercial-grade support. …
OpenStack was born at the nexus of high performance computing at NASA and the cloud at Rackspace Hosting, but it might be the phone companies of the world that help it go mainstream. …
The IT industry likes drama perhaps a bit more than is warranted by what actually goes on in the datacenters of the world. …
As automotive companies like Ford begin to consider themselves technology companies, others, including Volkswagen Group are taking a similar route. …
There is no question that Docker is emerging as the dominant container format and runtime for the encapsulation of the modern microservices way of creating and deploying software, and that container podding systems like Google’s Kubernetes or Docker’s Swarm are useful for managing a container collective that expresses an application. …
Like so many tried and true software platforms for high performance computing, the IBM-developed distributed computing management software, xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit), has been powering cluster needs since before the dawn of the new millennium. …
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