AI
Programmable Networks Train Neural Nets Faster
When it comes to machine learning training, people tend to focus on the compute. …
Control
Compute
Red Hat Shakes Up Container Ecosystem With CoreOS Deal
The container craze on Linux platforms just took an interesting twist now that Red Hat is shelling out $250 million to acquire its upstart rival in Linux and containers, CoreOS. …
Code
Creating Chaos to Save the Datacenter
Downtime has been plaguing companies for decades, and the problems have only been exacerbated during the internet era and with the rise of ecommerce and the cloud. …
Control
Burst Buffers Blow Through I/O Bottlenecks
Burst buffers are carving out a significant space for themselves in the HPC arena as a way to improve data checkpointing and application performance at a time when traditional storage technologies are struggling to keep up with the increasingly large and complex workloads including traditional simulation and modeling and new things like as data analytics. …
Compute
Keeping OpenStack On The Edge, Bleeding And Otherwise
Nobody likes to talk about the scope and scale of platforms more than we do at The Next Platform. …
Connect
Juniper Dons Red Hat To Ease Cloud Migration
Distributed telecommunications cloud environments offer service providers a way to more quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively deliver services to end users, but they come with their share of complexity, management headaches, integration challenges and coordinating operations among multiple cloud vendors. …
Compute
Red Hat Wraps OpenStack In Containers
Red Hat is no stranger to Linux containers, considering the work its engineers have done in creating the OpenShift application development and management platform. …
Cloud
A Match Made In Hyperscale: Docker Borgs Kubernetes
For more than a year, container pioneer Docker has pushed its own Docker Swarm as the orchestration tool for managing highly distributed computing environments based on its eponymous containers in physical and virtual environments. …
Cloud
Cisco Knows No One Wants To Manage The Management Stack
The highly distributed and increasingly cloud-based nature of the modern IT environment is adding to the complexity that organizations have to deal with, particularly in terms of managing their infrastructures. …
Cloud
Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud
During the dot-com boom, when Oracle was the dominant supplier of relational databases to startups and established enterprises alike, it used its profits to fund the acquisition of application serving middleware, notably BEA WebLogic, and then applications, such as PeopleSoft and Siebel, and then Java and hardware systems, from its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. …