New Algorithms For The Modern Datacenter
Quite a few years ago, as a distinguished engineer, I was giving a talk to my network-security peers about algorithms and new trends in technology. I presented a number ...Full Article
IBM Looks to Button Up Cloud Security
The perception that the cloud may be inherently insecure is prompting next-generation platform developers to attempt to bake security and privacy features into their offerings as more devices are ...Full Article
CoreOS Releases Building Block For Distributed Systems
Hyperscale Linux operating system specialist CoreOS said it is releasing its latest open source component for sharing and managing configuration data and other functions used in distributed systems. San ...Full Article
CoreOS Cites Progress on Docker Alternative
CoreOS Inc., the hyperscale Linux operating system upstart, announced a pair of incremental steps in the development of its software container alternative dubbed Rocket. It also highlighted progress on ...Full Article
Open Cloud Development Gaining Momentum
The open source movement coalescing around cloud computing has shifted in two years from developers trying to figure out core features and functionality to today's cloud projects generating "enterprise-ready" ...Full Article
Alibaba Joins MySQL Scaling Effort
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has joined the WebScaleSQL initiative designed to create a set of common extensions aimed at scaling the open source MySQL relational database. Alibaba ...Full Article
Vendors Focus on Docker Security
While its unclear so far whether Docker containers will make much of a dent this year in the datacenter, vendors continue to announce support for the open platform designed ...Full Article
Facebook Opens Up Osquery Tool
The hyperscale datacenter operators take a lot from the open source software community to run their businesses, but they also give back. Facebook has opened up its server, storage, ...Full Article
Ubuntu Core Targets Container Deployment
Canonical, the company formed to promote commercialization of the Ubuntu OS, is targeting container deployments with a "Snappy" version of its Ubuntu Core, the latest rendition of open source ...Full Article
Mesosphere Wants To Run Clusters At The Global 2000
A few years back, search engine giant Google invented a term called warehouse-scale computing to talk about the hyperscale that it operates its applications within. That term never really ...Full Article
