Proponents of the Lustre file system, which powers many of the world’s fastest supercomputers, gathered last month on the Indiana University Bloomington campus for the annual Open Scalable File Systems Lustre User Group, or LUG, meeting. LUG is the premier…

Working preferences have never been so diffuse and diverse. Flexible working shows no signs of slowing down; IDC predicts that by 2020, nearly three-quarters of the U.S. workforce will use mobile devices. And according to IDG research, enterprises already spend…

Big data is like an abundant, expanding natural resource emerging from the modern data landscape. IoT (sensor), mobile, social, clickstream, web and open data are important contributors to the proliferation of data we’re witnessing today. Worldwide data is expected to…

Industry Outlook is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry Outlook asks Jonathan Meisel, Managing Director and Data Center Solutions…

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) is now available. The free course, LFS158x – Introduction to Kubernetes, is offered through edX, the nonprofit online learning…