Control
Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition
It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. …
Kubernetes
Compute
IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
Big Blue has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024, and the thing that stands out most is not the System z16 mainframes and Power10 midrange and big iron are getting a little long in the tooth ahead of new product cycles expected to start in 2025. …
Control
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes
It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …
Cloud
Kubernetes Clusters Have Massive Overprovisioning Of Compute And Memory
In the ten years since Google released Kubernetes to the open source community, it has become the dominant platform for orchestrating and managing software containers and microservices, along the way muscling out competitors like Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …
Control
HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business
It is hard to make a living in the open source software business, although it is possible, through the contributions of many, to make great software. …
Control
Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself
Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used by enterprises and developers thanks to Docker. …
Compute
The Ever-Reddening Revenue Streams Of Big Blue
Speaking in generalities across any aspect of history is always risky, but that is what the job of history is. …
Control
Building Software Bridges To Ensure Workload Portability
In these modern IT days – where the rapidly-evolving environment stretches from the datacenter to the cloud and edge, with a range of hyperscale cloud providers and myriad clusters to choose from – what is increasingly important when creating and running workloads is portability. …
Control
Managing Infrastructure At Cloud Scale Without The Hyperscaler Propellerheads
As more enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud strategies and begin to extend their IT reach out to the edge, scale becomes an issue. …
Compute
Big Blue Turns In A Solid Quarter For Systems
By all accounts, Big Blue had a pretty good quarter ending in June, with sales of its System z16 mainframes skyrocketing upwards as they do every couple of years at the beginning of a new cycle and sales of its high-end Power10 machines also getting some traction. …