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. …
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. …
Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …
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. …
As the dominant supplier of commercial-grade open source infrastructure software, Red Hat sets the pace and it is not a surprise that IBM was willing to shell out an incredible $34 billion to acquire the company. …
True to its name, Google’s famous Borg cluster controller has absorbed a lot of different ideas about how to manage server clusters and the applications that run atop them at the search engine and now cloud computing giant. …
It is difficult not to be impressed with the rapid adoption of OpenStack since the open source cloud infrastructure software platform was first released almost 10 years ago, and that adoption has accelerated over the past few years. …
As one of the first hyperscalers in the world, Yahoo, part of the Oath conglomerate that also includes AOL and that is owned by telecom giant Verizon, knows a thing or two about running applications at extreme scale. …
If operating systems or server firmware had better isolation and workload scheduling software, the last decade of server virtualization in the datacenter might never had happened. …
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