Cloud Digest # 4: OS, Infrastructure, and Virtualization

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Software

• OS for the data center Mesosphere : Why data centers operating systems;

• Corporate software : Key areas that shape the situation in the corporate software market;

• Why data centers need operating systems : Why machines are not suitable as an abstraction level;

• The advantages of the OpenStack cloud concept and its difference from traditional architecture : comparison of approaches;

• Let a real cloud operating system raise your hand : What a cloud OS should look like.

Infrastructure and Virtualization

• Evaluate the load of the virtual environment : On the differences in the processes of writing and reading, as well as access patterns;

• A fresh look at the Oracle VM VirtualBox code : Checking the quality of the code of the virtualization tool Oracle VM VirtualBox;

• 11 tips on creating your own "virtual" laboratory : The author shares the experience gained over several years;

• How to simplify your data center using virtualization : Virtualization is an IT project underestimated by business;

• The evolution of virtualization : How this technology has become one of the most popular;

• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Confusion : Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Problems;

• Optimization of data centers using machine learning : An overview of the method used by Google;

• What will be the data center of the future : A team from Tallinn shares its thoughts on this subject;

• How new trends in data storage will affect data centers : the benefits of SDS;

• How to create a virtual infrastructure provider : This is a story about how 1cloud service was created.

miscellanea

• OCI and problems with Docker and CoreOS images : On what problems OCI is intended to solve;

• 10 tips from Amazon: One for each year : Werner Vogels’s thoughts, Amazon CTO;

• The essence and advantages of software-defined storage systems : What does this term really mean;

• Underwater data center : How Microsoft is implementing a project for storing data on the ocean floor;

• How the data and knowledge grew : Chronicles of storage systems;

• Nikita Mikhalkov's brainchild could make servers and data warehouses more expensive .

• One size fits all : Tech. dir VMware on corporate storage and data management;

• Problems that the hardware industry will face in 2016 : What is the future for companies in this area;

• How blockchain will change our lives : Analytics and forecasts for the future;

• Distributed cloud data centers : The inevitable direction of the development of data center technologies.