Just when you think the operating system space is about as saturated as it could get — and all the action has moved to the middleware and applications layers of the stack — there’s a new OS added to the mix. Unlike most OSes, however, the new OS, called Cosmos, doesn’t run on the bare [...]

It’s no secret that Cisco Systems sees data center management in it’s future, beyond simply being a hub-router-switch vendor. Cisco’s strategy for the past few years has to promote the idea of moving intelligence off the server and out onto the network. For example, Cisco has been promoting its Service Oriented Network Architecture (that’s SONA, [...]

Last May, I posted details on a novel approach to data center flexibility — offering data centers-in-a-box, in the form of fully loaded and equipped portable trailers that could be pulled right up into corporate parking lots and plugged in. IBM, Sun, and even Microsoft were talking up such mobile approaches. Kind of a neat [...]