Cloud OSes: Benefit Or Bane?

May 18, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Dan Kusnetsky.

Several suppliers have announced small, limited operating systems (OS) designed to live inside a virtual machine (VM). A few examples of this are the recently announced VMware Project Photon, Piston’s CloudOS, CoreOS, and the OS component of Red Hat’s OpenShift. When I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jim Morrisroe, CEO of Piston Cloud, the company had the following things to say:

"Piston CloudOS is a new type of operating system that manages clusters of commodity servers in your datacenter as a single pool of highly-available resources. These resources may be shared by any service or framework, including OpenStack, Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or Mesos for better resource efficiency, and streamlined operations…

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