Control
HPC Eases Its Way Into The Cloud
The ongoing journey to bring more enterprise high-performance computing (HPC) workloads into the cloud has been a bumpy one with its share of roadblocks and setbacks. …
Control
AI
Bringing DevOps Control To Bear On AI Applications
Enterprises are putting a lot of time, money, and resources behind their nascent artificial intelligence efforts, banking on the fact that they can automate the way application leverage the massive amounts of customer and operational data they are keeping. …
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Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does
If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …
Control
OpenStack Follows The Datacenter Out To The Edge
It is difficult not to be impressed with the rapid adoption of OpenStack since the open source cloud infrastructure software platform was first released almost 10 years ago, and that adoption has accelerated over the past few years. …
Cloud
Google Wants Cloud Services Platform To Borg Your Datacenter
It has been our position from the beginning, when Google first open sourced the Kubernetes container controller, that it wanted for this to be the controller that ruled the datacenter. …
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Microsoft Is Not The Only Way To Shrink Wrap SQL Server In Containers
Going forward, there is little question that containers have become firmly established as the technology of choice for application deployment – at least until such a time as alternative approaches like serverless computing outgrow them in popularity. …
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AI And The Further Automation Of IT
Enterprises that are betting the massive amounts of data that they are collecting will deliver the insights they need to make better and faster businesses are finding that they could just as easily be overwhelmed by them. …
Cloud
Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star
We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …
Compute
Red Hat, Google, IBM, And SAP Go Knative For Serverless
The history of digital computing is to provide increasing levels of abstraction to get programmers further and further away from directly manipulating the ones and zeros. …
Control
Pulling The Puppet Strings In HPC
For more than a decade, datacenter system administrators have been trying to figure out how to get their increasingly complex infrastructure under control and to manage them in a way that allows them to keep up with, adapt to, and scale with the rapid changes that are the new norm. …