Cloud Computing Giants Add to Open Source Credentials With Kubernetes By QUENTIN HARDY July 10, 2014 3:00 am A modest and geeky announcement by Google and a couple other big tech names on Thursday may be the summer’s biggest development in a continuing fight over the future of huge global computing. Microsoft, IBM and Red Hat, along with others, are joining Google in creating open source software to manage computing workloads across thousands of computer servers. Amazon Web Services, by far the largest cloud computing company, was notably absent from the announcement. Called Kubernetes, the software project draws on a former Google top secret: how the search giant efficiently built and deployed powerful applications like search, mail and maps over its cloud computing system, one of the world’s largest. What Google kept proprietary it now hopes to sell to thousands of companies around the world as part of renting the public its computing power. So do Microsoft and IBM, with public clouds that chief executives at both companies say are crucial to their futures. Red Hat is a leading provider of services for the Linux computer operating system, which is used extensively in cloud servers. [...] Continua qui: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/cloud-computing-giants-add-to-open-...