Does the data center need an OS?

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Does the data center need an OS?

One of latest companies to get a cash infusion from famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is Mesosphere, a startup that is essentially attempting to build an operating system for data centers ( about that news here). But it begs the question: Do data centers need an OS? The idea behind Mesos, which is the open source software the startup is commercializing, is that it can sit above all of the hardware and applications in a data center to dynamically provision and manage workloads and infrastructure. The alternative is having silos in a data center for various applications that are manually deployed. Instead, Mesos is intelligent software that finds the best place for workloads to run, monitors how resources are used and looks to consolidate workloads to run a more efficient data center.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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