Google brings robust cluster scheduling to its cloud

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

Google is drawing from the work of the open-source community to offer its cloud customers a service to better manage their clusters of virtual servers. On Monday, the Google Cloud Platform started offering the commercial version of the open-source Mesos cluster management software, offered by Mesosphere.

With the Mesosphere software, "You can create a truly multitenant cluster, and that drives up utilization and simplifies operations," said Florian Leibert, co-founder and CEO of Mesosphere. Leibert was also the engineering lead at Twitter who introduced Mesos to the social media company…

First developed by the University of California, Berkeley, Mesos can be thought of as an operating system that allows an administrator to control an entire cluster of computers, or even an entire data center, as if it were a single machine…

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