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
Docker Momentum Builds with IBM, VMware Deals
The application container ecosystem continues to expand as heavy hitters like IBM and VMware embrace Docker and other container deployment approaches to delivering distributed apps to the cloud. VMware ...Full Article
Docker Goes Enterprise As Rocket Containers Launch
The momentum for Docker software containers is not just building, but is exploding as the eponymous company behind the technology builds its partner ecosystem and offers a compelling alternative ...Full Article
Unravelling Hadoop Performance Mysteries
Despite the fact that it runs on plain vanilla X86 servers and 64-bit operating systems, Hadoop is a complex beast that's prone to bottlenecks and performance issues. Getting Hadoop ...Full Article
SUSE Rolls Up Cloud, Storage, And HANA for Startups
Enterprise Linux vendor SUSE announced a batch of initiatives this week at a company event, including a "bring your own subscription" option and a preview of new storage offering. ...Full Article
AutoTrader.com Shifts Up Automation Gears
Like many enterprises, AutoTrader.com is on a journey from physical machines running distinct parts of its application stack toward a virtualized and automated cloud that allows for more efficiency ...Full Article
