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. …
OpenStack
Control
How Edge Is Different From Cloud – And Not
As the dominant supplier of commercial-grade open source infrastructure software, Red Hat sets the pace and it is not a surprise that IBM was willing to shell out an incredible $34 billion to acquire the company. …
Control
Ma Bell, Not Google, Creates The Real Open Source Borg
True to its name, Google’s famous Borg cluster controller has absorbed a lot of different ideas about how to manage server clusters and the applications that run atop them at the search engine and now cloud computing giant. …
Control
OpenStack Follows The Datacenter Out To The Edge
It is difficult not to be impressed with the rapid adoption of OpenStack since the open source cloud infrastructure software platform was first released almost 10 years ago, and that adoption has accelerated over the past few years. …
Control
How OpenStack Lassoes Yahoo’s 4 Million Server Cores
As one of the first hyperscalers in the world, Yahoo, part of the Oath conglomerate that also includes AOL and that is owned by telecom giant Verizon, knows a thing or two about running applications at extreme scale. …
Cloud
Future Clouds Could Be Just Containers On Bare Metal
If operating systems or server firmware had better isolation and workload scheduling software, the last decade of server virtualization in the datacenter might never had happened. …
Cloud
OpenStack Stretches To The Edge, Embraces Accelerators
Since its inception, the OpenStack cloud controller co-created by NASA and Rackspace Hosting, with these respective organizations supplying the core Nova compute and Swift object storage foundations, has been focused on the datacenter. …
Compute
Keeping OpenStack On The Edge, Bleeding And Otherwise
Nobody likes to talk about the scope and scale of platforms more than we do at The Next Platform. …
Connect
Juniper Dons Red Hat To Ease Cloud Migration
Distributed telecommunications cloud environments offer service providers a way to more quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively deliver services to end users, but they come with their share of complexity, management headaches, integration challenges and coordinating operations among multiple cloud vendors. …