Distributed computing unites autonomous processors over a network to solve tasks that exceed the capacity of any single machine. Systems software in this domain spans operating systems, middleware, ...

Version 1.0.0 of CubeFS was released as open-source in March 2019. It entered the CNCF Sandbox in December 2019, moved to the Incubator in 2022, and graduated as a full CNCF project in January 2025.

Azure Local, powered by Azure Arc, is reshaping the landscape of distributed computing by bringing cloud capabilities to affordable hardware at remote locations. This innovative approach addresses ...

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Data is distributed. By its very nature, we work with enterprise-level data across different documents, applications, databases and deeper systems; the fact that we can distribute any single piece of ...

Blockchain hype has been subsumed by the AI hype in the past couple of years. Both these technologies are relatively new. AI has a longer pedigree, going back in concept to the Golem and human ...

In this podcast, we look at distributed cloud storage with Enrico Signoretti, vice-president of product and partnerships at Cubbit. We talk about how storage has shifted to hybrid and multicloud modes ...

A new technical paper titled “MegaMmap: Blurring the Boundary Between Memory and Storage for Data-Intensive Workloads” was published by researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology. “In this work, ...

As a subset of distributed computing, edge computing isn’t new, but it exposes an opportunity to distribute latency-sensitive application resources more optimally. Every single tech development these ...

There is a perception among many that blockchain and distributed ledger technology are the same thing. This is not quite the case. This article explains the difference between blockchain and ...

Large, monolithic datacentres at the heart of enterprises could give way to hundreds or thousands of smaller data stores and devices, each with their own storage capacity. This driver for this is ...