Control Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/control/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:09:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Control Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/control/ 32 32 86113652 Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:13:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145187 Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …

Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/feed/ 1 145187 VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/vmware-wants-to-redefine-private-cloud-with-vcf-9/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/vmware-wants-to-redefine-private-cloud-with-vcf-9/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:14:39 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144600 We all had been wondering what VMware would look like when it became part of Broadcom’s massive universe following the semiconductor giant’s $69 billion acquisition of the virtualization juggernaut. …

VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9 was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/vmware-wants-to-redefine-private-cloud-with-vcf-9/feed/ 0 144600 Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-rolls-out-blueprints-for-the-next-wave-of-generative-ai/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-rolls-out-blueprints-for-the-next-wave-of-generative-ai/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:00:08 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144595 Hardware is always the star of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and this year we got previews of “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs, the cornerstone of a 2025 platform that includes “Grace” CPUs, the NVLink Switch 5 chip, the Bluefield-3 DPU, and other components, all of which Nvidia is talking about again this week at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. …

Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-rolls-out-blueprints-for-the-next-wave-of-generative-ai/feed/ 2 144595 Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/22/rackspace-goes-all-in-again-on-openstack/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/22/rackspace-goes-all-in-again-on-openstack/#comments Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:08:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144562 Rackspace Technology has admittedly been relatively quiet in recent years when it’s come to OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform that was born in 2010 out of the collaboration between the cloud computing company and NASA. …

Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/22/rackspace-goes-all-in-again-on-openstack/feed/ 3 144562 Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:10:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144341 Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …

Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/feed/ 0 144341 IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/25/ibm-buys-hashicorp-to-control-the-alternative-to-red-hat-kubernetes/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/25/ibm-buys-hashicorp-to-control-the-alternative-to-red-hat-kubernetes/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:48:41 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144051 It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …

IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/25/ibm-buys-hashicorp-to-control-the-alternative-to-red-hat-kubernetes/feed/ 1 144051 The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/12/the-cloud-outgrows-linux-and-sparks-a-new-operating-system/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/12/the-cloud-outgrows-linux-and-sparks-a-new-operating-system/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:11:42 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143804 Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. …

The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/12/the-cloud-outgrows-linux-and-sparks-a-new-operating-system/feed/ 44 143804 Arrow Hits the Mark for Petabyte-Class Analytics Problems https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/30/arrow-hits-the-mark-for-petabyte-class-analytics-problems/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/30/arrow-hits-the-mark-for-petabyte-class-analytics-problems/#comments Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:19:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143327 When we first talked to Voltron Data following their launch in early 2022, we had to take care to explain why Apache Arrow was worth paying attention to and why it might warrant the level of enterprise support the startup promised. …

Arrow Hits the Mark for Petabyte-Class Analytics Problems was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/30/arrow-hits-the-mark-for-petabyte-class-analytics-problems/feed/ 1 143327 HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/05/hashicorp-retools-licenses-and-software-to-grow-its-business/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/05/hashicorp-retools-licenses-and-software-to-grow-its-business/#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:26:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142884 It is hard to make a living in the open source software business, although it is possible, through the contributions of many, to make great software. …

HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/05/hashicorp-retools-licenses-and-software-to-grow-its-business/feed/ 2 142884 Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/25/everybody-tries-to-leverage-vmware-to-their-advantage/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/25/everybody-tries-to-leverage-vmware-to-their-advantage/#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:29:01 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142814 Our choice of words in founding this publication nearly a decade ago were no accident. …

Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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