With many organizations struggling to incorporate various forms of media into their storage environments, it’s sometimes instructive to see how Web-scale companies went about solving the problem.

‘Rather than building out data centers ourselves or building, buying and running equipment, we instead leverage equipment that is already being run, powered and cooled around the world,’ says Storj ...

In case you haven't noticed, distributed computing is hard. The problem is that it is becoming increasingly important in the world of enterprise application development. Today, developers continuously ...

What is agent-based modeling, otherwise known as ABM? What is distributed computing? Why do it? These are all easily answered questions, right? Surprisingly, the answer is a resounding “No!” in many ...

Check out an online distributed computing news group and you discover that, when it comes to EJB, there are usually more questions than answers. EJB is largely a "Java game" and the Object Management ...

Kubernetes is the most commonly used technology to deploy and orchestrate containerized workloads on distributed systems. However, Kubernetes is much more than container orchestration: It’s rapidly ...

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For techies, this distributed, object-storage service is a no-brainer. You can even make money by sharing local disk space as a Storj node. For the average user it’s a great deal, but implementing ...

ScaleOut Software's version 6 lets users host modules of application code and run them within the distributed cache. To enable fast execution, a copy of each module runs on all servers within the ...