An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is part of ...

Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, ...

In this paper, the authors aim at providing a complete survey of distributed operating systems. This paper also explains in detail about various key design issues involved in the building of such ...

Since the mid-1990s, the costs of compute, storage, and memory have been steadily plummeting. The commoditization revolution in compute ("x86 everywhere"), combined with the commercialization of ...

Will there be a market for SDN network operating systems? The answer will be critical to the evolution of SDN standards and the development of applications that leverage SDN capabilities. The SDN ...

The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) project, an open source network operating system (NOS) under the Linux Foundation, is accelerating its growth today with new members and ...

The open source Open Network Operating System (ONOS) used in conjunction with new-age networking technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) is out with a number of updates, including ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

If the world doesn’t need another thing, one of those things that it doesn’t need is probably another switch operating system. Cisco Systems, Arista Networks, Juniper Networks, Big Switch Networks, ...

Pluribus said it extends the Adaptive Cloud Fabric (software-defined, peer-to-peer, distributed, virtualized network architecture) in order to support emerging edge computing and distributed cloud ...

If you aren’t familiar with Nimbula, you might be hearing about them soon. The company was founded by the developers that created the popular Amazon EC2 and has been named one of the most promising ...