Compute
Red Hat Stretches Gluster Clustered Storage Under Containers
Red Hat has been aggressive in building out its capabilities around containers. …
Docker
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. …
Cloud
Singularity is the Hinge To Swing HPC Cloud Adoption
For almost a decade now, the cloud has been pitched as a cost-effective way to bring supercomputing out of the queue and into public IaaS or HPC on-demand environments. …
Cloud
Red Hat Gears Up OpenShift For Developers
During the five years that Red Hat has been building out its OpenShift cloud applications platform, much of the focus has been on making it easier to use by customers looking to adapt to an increasingly cloud-centric world for both new and legacy applications. …
Compute
Docker Completes Its Platform With DIY Linux
It all started with a new twist on an old idea, that of a lightweight software container running inside Linux that would house applications and make them portable. …
Control
Singularity Containers for HPC, Reproducibility, and Mobility
Containers are an extremely mobile, safe and reproducible computing infrastructure that is now ready for production HPC computing. …
Compute
Docker Reaches The Enterprise Milestone
In the server virtualization era, there were a couple of virtual machine formats and hypervisors to match them, and despite the desire for a common VM format, the virtual server stacks got siloed into ESXi, KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V stacks with some spicing of PowerVM, Solaris containers and LDOMs, and VM/ESA partitions sprinkled on. …
Control
Solving HPC Conflicts with Containers
It’s an unavoidable truth of information technology that the operators and users are sometimes at odds with each other. …
Cloud
Bouncing Back To Private Clouds With OpenStack
There is an adage, not quite yet old, suggesting that compute is free but storage is not. …
Control
Locking Down Docker To Open Up Enterprise Adoption
It happens time and time again with any new technology. Coders create this new thing, it gets deployed as an experiment and, if it is an open source project, shared with the world. …