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. …
OpenStack
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. …
Compute
Red Hat Wraps OpenStack In Containers
Red Hat is no stranger to Linux containers, considering the work its engineers have done in creating the OpenShift application development and management platform. …
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. …
Compute
Stacking Up Software To Drive FPGAs Into The Datacenter
Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it. …
Cloud
Building The Stack Above And Below OpenStack
It has been six years now since the “Austin” release of the OpenStack cloud controller was released by the partnership of Rackspace Hosting, which contributed its Swift object storage, and NASA, which contributed its Nova compute controller. …
Compute
IBM Overclocks Power8 To Take On “Broadwell” Xeon E7
In the absence of Power8+ processor upgrades this year, and with sales of midrange systems taking a bit of a hit in the third quarter, IBM has to do something to push its iron against Xeon E7 and Sparc M7 systems between now and when the Power9 machines are available in the second half of 2017. …
Cloud
IBM Builds A Bridge Between Private And Public Power Clouds
Two years ago, when Big Blue put a stake through the heart of its impartial attitude about the X86 server business, it was also putting a stake in the ground for its Power systems business. …
Cloud
The Vast Potential For VMware’s OpenStack Cloud
While hyperscalers and HPC centers like the bleeding edge – their very existence commands that they be on it – enterprises are a more conservative lot. …
Cloud
Mashing Up OpenStack With Hyperconverged Storage
While innovators in the HPC and hyperscale arenas usually have the talent and often have the desire to get into the code for the tools that they use to create their infrastructure, most enterprises want their software with a bit more fit and finish, and if they can get it so it is easy to operate and yet still in some ways open, they are willing to pay a decent amount of cash to get commercial-grade support. …