Everywhere we turn in the datacenter, monolithic software is being smashed into smaller chunks that can be isolated from each other and tweaked as needed without having to recompile and test a giant pile of code. …
Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher penetration on cloudy infrastructure. …
Technologies that are developed at hyperscale companies that operate applications at the datacenter scale, rather than of the server or the rack, can be tweaked to work for smaller enterprise customers. …
Branching out from the HPC sector into the enterprise does not necessarily require supporting operating systems other than Linux. …
Over the last couple of years, Docker has become an increasingly popular tool for web-scale companies like eBay, but it appears to finally be catching on for some supercomputing centers. …
Linux is far and away the dominant operating system inside the largest supercomputing sites with 485 of the Top 500 list of fastest machines sporting some variant. …
In an ideal world, you would not buy a server unless you knew how all of the components that comprise it would work together for several years supporting your specific applications. …
When it comes to cluster computing, what’s old is new again– at least for Global 2000 companies that are leaving behind the monolithic enterprise systems and appliances and moving into the scale-out Linux cluster camp. …
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