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The demise of the operating system. Film at 11.
A couple of weeks ago a colleague mused whether "hardware will become the roadkill of cloud computing" and came to the following conclusion:
"...Successful cloud service providers must offer state-of-the-art cloud-based services. And that requires state-of-the-art hardware, virtualization and security-processing technologies to handle the demands of increasingly intelligent workloads."
And I agree. Except that he totally missed one key component, an absolute necessity to deliver a cloud story, a datacenter, or any sort of computing for that matter. Can you tell what that is?
Submitted by: GeraldPfeifer on Mon. 03.28.2011
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Cloud Computing Cool Solutions
Topic: Cloud
Product: Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Studio
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ext4: Still not there yet - and not worth it anyway
When reading Ext4 Within Striking Distance of XFS the other day, I could not help virtually patting Matthias Eckermann, who owns the storage strategy for SUSE Linux Enterprise on my team, and our file system engineers led by Jeff Mahoney on their backs.
This is a nice confirmation of us shipping XFS as a supported file system for four major releases, from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 to version 11 today.
And as Matthias has analyzed in detail, Btrfs which debuted in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 is the future of local file systems...
Submitted by: GeraldPfeifer on Thu. 11.11.2010
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Product: Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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From Gerald to Larry: One Down, Solaris to Go
So I hear you are killing OpenSolaris. Admittedly it never was all that successful as an Open Source project, unlike the Linux Kernel, Apache, Firefox, GCC, Samba, and hundreds/thousands of others that make up openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise.
While I guess I can see your logic, I sympathize with those volunteers who had engaged. Luckily, there are communities around other operating systems which are a lot more open than OpenSolaris ever was, and I hope they will find a new home.
Let's be clear on one thing, though. This is not the end of our quest; Solaris shall be next...
Submitted by: GeraldPfeifer on Mon. 08.23.2010
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Cloud, Open Source, UNIX
Product: Linux, openSUSE, SUSE Appliance Toolkit, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z, SUSE Studio
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