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Microsoft and HP Enterprise Invest $73.5 Million In Mesosphere Startup (thestack.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the entrepreneurship-at-its-finest dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Stack: Mesosphere, creator of the world's first data center operating system, has confirmed significant strategic investment from Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mesosphere, built on the open-source Apache Mesos project, closed $73.5 million in a Series C funding round. With HPE and Microsoft leading the round, the startups total funding to date tallies at almost $126 million. The operating system is currently used at mega-scale by customers including Verizon, Netflix and Twitter. It also underpins Microsoft's Azure Container solutions.

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  1. "first data center OS" by iggymanz · · Score: 2

    first data center OS - oh really?

    do tell how this is different from clustered OS from decades ago that were on global networks?

    1. Re:"first data center OS" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      It's made by the cloud for the cloud, MacLeod.

    2. Re:"first data center OS" by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 1

      SET DEF SomeOtherVaxOnAnotherPlanet:[DriveSomebodyToldMeAbout]

    3. Re:"first data center OS" by bigdady92 · · Score: 1

      which ones? Mesh Networks? Star Networks? P2P Networks?

      We have moved beyond mere networking in those terms, we are now talking in terms of SPHERES!

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    4. Re:"first data center OS" by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      We have moved beyond mere networking in those terms, we are now talking in terms of SPHERES!

      It was only yesterday we were talking about SQUARES! So much for the future of CUBISM.

    5. Re: "first data center OS" by Curlsman · · Score: 1

      More like

      $ edit somevaxonanotherplanet::drivesomebodytoldmeabout:[reallyimporantfolder]criticalfile.dat

    6. Re: "first data center OS" by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 1

      Since we're being picky, you forgot the /noeverlastinggobbstopper /nometapopbottle part.

    7. Re:"first data center OS" by rossdee · · Score: 1

      "It's made by the cloud for the cloud, MacLeod."

      Actually the mesosphere is Far Above the Clouds...

    8. Re: "first data center OS" by Curlsman · · Score: 1

      Well, those ARE the defaults.

  2. At mega-scale by OzPeter · · Score: 2

    I really have no idea what "at mega-scale" means,I assume that it means used by some really large but unspecified number. But seeing things like this always reminds me of the Calvin quote Verbing weirds language

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    1. Re:At mega-scale by Desler · · Score: 1

      It means nothing. It's a buzzword.

    2. Re:At mega-scale by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It is like web-scale, but mega.

    3. Re:At mega-scale by fsagx · · Score: 1

      Ha! They've painted themselves into a corner of obsolescence. Our GIGA-SCALE OS, named Ginormous Gui 16.04 LTS, releases in a couple weeks. (TERRA-SCALE is still in alpha).

  3. Re:Will get crushed by Desler · · Score: 1

    You think Slashdot is relevant enough for anyone to bother astroturfing? Awww, how cute.

  4. Re: Shitty summary! At least link to Apache Mezos! by jon3k · · Score: 2

    Systemd benefits 99% of people, the 1% being old fogeys who refuse to adapt with times. Well, let them perish, and let a new generation of programmers who don't have to worry about cobbling together hacked up scripts and instead can focus on actually improving the user experience take their places. Long live the king.

    Ah yes, solving the problem no one actually had and complaining about some red herring ("hacked together scripts"). I've spent more time fighting with systemd in the last year than I did in 15 years of init scripts.