Cloud
Google Refines Cloud Pricing Around Capacity Lessons
The public cloud has hit several growing pains over the last several years. …
Cloud
Google, Cycle Computing Pair for Broad Genomics Effort
In times long since passed, when cloud was the latest, greatest hype machine, a steady wave of “cloud enablement” companies came to fore, promising secure ease as users tiptoed across the firewall. …
Compute
Google Sees Long, Expensive Road Ahead For Quantum Computing
As was the case over seven decades ago in the early days of digital computing – when the switch at the heart of the system was a vacuum tube, not even a transistor – some of the smartest mathematicians and information theorists today are driving the development of quantum computers, trying to figure out the best physical components to use to run complex algorithms. …
Control
Containers For The Masses Now That Kubernetes Is Set Free
Sometimes the old ideas are the best ones, but they sometimes get ahead of their time. …
Connect
Why Google Thinks We Need 5 Petabit Switching
The gap between what a hyperscaler can build and what it might need seems to be increasing, and perhaps at a ridiculous pace. …
AI
Scale And Database Pioneer Talks Hadoop Evolution
Hadoop started out as a batch-oriented system for chewing through massive amounts of unstructured data on the cheap, enabling all sorts of things such as search engines and advertising systems. …
Connect
Inside A Decade Of Google Homegrown Datacenter Networks
When search engine giant Google started planning and then building software-defined networks more than a decade ago, the term did not even exist yet. …
Control
Mesos Brings The Google Way To The Global 2000
It has taken a little longer than expected, but then again, creating a datacenter operating system that mimics the sophisticated bare metal and virtualized systems inside of search engine giant Google is no simple task. …
Control
Machine Learning Drives Google Green Datacenter Ambitions
About a year ago, search engine giant Google put out a whitepaper about how it was using machine learning to increase the efficiency of its datacenters, and now, executives at the company tell The Next Platform that the system is being put into production. …
Control
HP Follows Hyperscale Lead With Composable Infrastructure
The people in the systems business at Hewlett-Packard have finally caught the DevOps bug. …