Balancing EBSCO’s Hybrid Cloud OpenStack Load
EBSCO Information Services, a content discovery service for researchers and educators, has an IT development staff of 525 working in an OpenStack, DevOps, hybrid cloud environment. They build and ...Full Article
Fighting the Cloud Vendor Lock-In Headache
Vendor lock-in is one of the biggest concerns for enterprises making the move to the public cloud. IT leaders have spent years under the yoke of database giants and ...Full Article
Think Before You Swap: Not All File Systems Are Equal in Scaling Cloud Apps
File Systems are like opinions. Everybody has one (or two). But they may not be the right ones for the job. Unfortunately, a common mistake in development is selection ...Full Article
Custom App Container Targets HPC Needs
Custom versions of application containers are emerging that meet stringent requirements. Among the first is an HPC-specific container platform dubbed "Singularity" built around what its developers say is the ...Full Article
Conflicted Feelings: Concerns About Cloud Security Growing, But So Is Trust
Organizations are racing to the cloud at an accelerating pace – with growing anxiety. Concerns about cloud security are the core finding of a new study from Intel Security ...Full Article
The Automobile as the Next Smart Device
Advancements in assisted driving software and self-driving vehicles portend a new era for ground transportation. One of the less-talked-about set of capabilities behind this trend is the integration of ...Full Article
OpenStack Reviews Mixed in Latest Survey
As OpenStack users align around its standard APIs for deploying cloud infrastructure, adoption of application container technologies on OpenStack platforms continues to generated the most buzz in the latest ...Full Article
An Urgent Plea from the Manufacturing Sector: Give Us Scalability
Mohamad El-Zein has been on the front lines of advanced scale computing for decades, and like a veteran combat soldier who has seen one too many failed battle plans, ...Full Article
LUG 2016 Wrap-up: Intel’s Lustre Line Gains Traction
Intel’s effort to expand Lustre’s beyond science and the Top500 HPC communities, where it has long been strong, and into enterprise and cloud environments was apparent in announcements made ...Full Article
