Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios. (Thanks to ZDNet blogger @Manan for the ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video ...

Silicon Valley-based cloud company Mesosphere has been in the news a lot lately, most recently grabbing headlines because of its partnership with Sysdig, a provider of container-specific monitoring ...

The Eclipse Foundation today announced the launch of a top-level project to develop a new open-source, vendor-neutral OS designed to provide an alternative to existing IoT and edge operating systems.

Apparently this new-age software-defined networking (SDN) stuff is already in danger of becoming yesterday's news, if start-up Apstra Inc. has its way. Emerging from stealth, the Menlo Park, Calif., ...