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. …
Compute
Google Will Do Anything To Beat Moore’s Law
For most companies in most industries, riding down the Moore’s Law curve to get more compute power for the same money is good enough. …
AI
Riding The Inevitable Curve From Analytics To Deep Learning
It is safe to say that there have never been more ways to store massive amounts of data of varying degrees of structure and to dice, slice, and correlate that data to gain some insight from it. …
AI
Cloudy Machine Learning For The Masses
If there is one lesson that the big three public cloud providers teach, it is that there is no substitute for breadth and depth in software engineering. …
Cloud
Disks Hold Their Own Against Flash On Clouds
With the prices of flash storage coming down fast to meet a kind of parity with disk storage, and solid state memory having obvious throughput and energy savings benefits compared to spinning rust, you might think that disk drives would be pretty much dead out there on the public clouds. …
Compute
OpenPower Collective Opens For System Business
It has been about a year since the OpenPower Foundation was formed to provide a development locus for systems based on the Power8 processor and its varied I/O technologies. …
Compute
Google Looks Ahead To OpenPower Systems
Search engine giant Google only talks about the underlying technology that it deploys in its datacenters years after they have been commercialized and a replacement has been developed and put into use. …
Cloud
Why The Coldest Storage At Google Is Nearline
There is a kind of law of relativity that differentiates hyperscale companies from large enterprises. …