Toby Wolpe is Europe editor at ZDNet and based in London. He started in technology journalism when the Apple II was state of the art.
With more speed and capacity for academic and private-sector research, the new Dell-built Lengau system offers one petaflop of power.
At about 50 miles from the Arctic Circle, the frequent -25C (-13F) winter temperatures make the question of how to keep equipment racks cool less of an issue for the Hydro 66 datacenter.
Using the native Docker API and tooling, the Carina container service aims to enable users to spin up containers quickly and easily.
Five months on from its acquisition of Blue Box, IBM has announced an OpenStack-based private cloud environment that runs in a user's own datacenter.
Tapping into data from a range of sources, including user surveys, the new online Project Navigator tool from the OpenStack Foundation is designed to help firms pick through open-source cloud components.
To help firms identify expert staff more easily and raise skill levels, the OpenStack Foundation has today unveiled the first qualification in its professional certification scheme.
A deal struck with Chinese cloud provider UCloud to build a new jointly-owned OpenStack company is designed to strengthen Mirantis' hand in the burgeoning Asian open-source cloud market.
On top of new features in the latest release of the graph database, Neo4j is being tuned for IBM hardware while Neo's query language Cypher gets its own open-source project.
Now joining forces with the Docker Hub cloud platform is the Tutum service for dev and ops teams working with production containers.
Kilo's big theme of making popular open-source cloud platform OpenStack easier to use continues with new features in the Liberty release - but there's also a focus on scaling.