Day: October 7, 2014

Open Compute and the Enterprise

Ever wish you could start with a clean slate and build your data center from the ground up with the most optimized equipment? Well, a few years back, Facebook engineers did just that- designing and building their own servers, power supplies, server racks and battery backup systems. The result was the Facebook hyperscale data center…

The Importance of Being FOSS

“To my mind, the fundamental freedom is not the freedom to tinker but the freedom to build things out of the software,” said blogger Chris Travers. “This freedom becomes effectively the freedom to use the software to solve problems the designers of the software did not foresee.” Source: Tech

Understanding Elastic Storage for IBM System z

New Elastic Storage for Linux on IBMA System zA is an extremely powerful file system that is based on the IBM General Parallel File System technology, which is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, and it is also enabled for technical computing, Big Data & Analytics, and Cloud. Elastic Storage is being…