Cloud
CoreOS Hyperscales Linux By Making It Invisible
Operating systems matter and they always will matter on the systems that run the applications of the world. …
Enterprise
Control
Cluster Management Comes Full Circle
When it comes to cluster computing, what’s old is new again– at least for Global 2000 companies that are leaving behind the monolithic enterprise systems and appliances and moving into the scale-out Linux cluster camp. …
Cloud
New Protocol Targets Cloud Scalability
It is no accident that virtualizing the network has taken longer than virtualizing servers or storage, and it is similarly not a coincidence that the hyperscale datacenter operators and a small number of very large businesses have decided to build their own switches and routers operating systems for these devices. …
AI
Flink Sparks Next Wave of Distributed Data Processing
If you haven’t heard of Flink until now, get ready for the deluge. …
Compute
Manufacturers Making Workstation To Cluster Leap
As one of the fastest growing markets in HPC, the manufacturing sector is looking to supercomputing to drive its next generation of product modeling and simulation. …
AI
Pivotal Opens Up More Of Its Platform
Just a few years ago, using a new kind of tool such as the Hadoop data muncher was sufficient to gain competitive advantage in many industries. …
Connect
Open Switches Squeeze Networking Incumbents
The so-called industry standard server, by which most people mean a machine based on an X86 processor and generally one made by Intel, has utterly transformed the datacenter. …
Enterprise
VSAN Ready For All Enterprise Workloads
The hyperconverged upstarts may have created the market for server-storage hybrids to support clusters of virtual machines, but it may be VMware that benefits most from this movement as customers look to simplify their infrastructure for supporting virtualized applications in their datacenters. …
Compute
VMware ESX Scale Pushed Up And Out By User Demands
After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with boosting these two key components of its virtualization wares. …
AI
Big Insurance Learns Slow, Steady Lessons from Hadoop
It was only a few years ago that the foregone conclusion was that future of mission-critical applications would hinge largely on Hadoop. …