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. …
If there is an adage that is particularly true in the technology business, it is that you can either creatively destroy your own products in the markets you come to dominate or someone else will. …
The convergence of servers and networks forced the hand of networking giant Cisco Systems back in the late 2000s, compelling it to create the Unified Computing System blade servers and their integrated networking and launch them nearly seven years ago now, upsetting the balance of power in the datacenter. …
One of the big issues with any complex piece of distributed software is getting the most performance out of the scale inherent in the system. …
Server virtualization juggernaut VMware was reluctant to take on the storage area establishment most aptly represented by its parent company, EMC, with virtual storage area network storage software aimed at commodity hardware. …
It has been just about a decade and a half since server virtualization juggernaut VMware debuted the first release of its ESX bare metal hypervisor, and nearly a decade since this hypervisor and its virtual machine guests had enough oomph to take on the job of encapsulating and consolidating multiple operating systems and workloads on since physical servers. …
Now that the dust is starting to settle after Dell’s blockbuster $67 billion deal to acquire storage behemoth EMC and, by extension, its controlling interest in server virtualization juggernaut VMware, it is time to start thinking about what this means for the datacenters of the world. …
In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud infrastructure. …
We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …
The last thing that server virtualization juggernaut VMware wants to do is become a hardware vendor. …
All Content Copyright The Next Platform