Code
Squeezing Performance Out Of Complex Software
When all is said and done, the performance of applications matters more than any other technical aspect that drives them. …
Control
Control
ScaleXtreme Cloud Tools Reanimated
Citrix Systems makes a living selling infrastructure software that manages the virtualization of servers and desktops and that bridges the gaps between those devices in a number of different and clever ways. …
Code
OpenStack Aims Magnum At Containers
Software containers are different from virtual machines and the hypervisers that host them, and they need a very different set of management tools to use them in large scale enterprise, hyperscale, and cloud environments. …
Control
Omega To Become Part Of Google’s Borg Collective
The fact that Google calls its massive-scale resource management framework “Borg” is, in itself, rather a brilliant thing. …
Control
Teaching Grid Engine To Speak Mesos
The HPC and hyperscale camps do not always get along, but they are often trying to solve similar problems when it comes to application scheduling and resource management on clusters. …
Code
Virtualization Giant VMware Takes On Cloud-Native Microservices
Everywhere we turn in the datacenter, monolithic software is being smashed into smaller chunks that can be isolated from each other and tweaked as needed without having to recompile and test a giant pile of code. …
Cloud
With Nano Server And Containers, Microsoft Takes On Linux
Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher penetration on cloudy infrastructure. …
Cloud
Tectonic Set To Shake Up Google Style Containers
Technologies that are developed at hyperscale companies that operate applications at the datacenter scale, rather than of the server or the rack, can be tweaked to work for smaller enterprise customers. …
Compute
OpenStack And KVM Give Windows New Life On Big Iron
Branching out from the HPC sector into the enterprise does not necessarily require supporting operating systems other than Linux. …
Control
HPC Schedulers Snap To Docker
Over the last couple of years, Docker has become an increasingly popular tool for web-scale companies like eBay, but it appears to finally be catching on for some supercomputing centers. …