The rise of Docker has reinvigorated the interest in containers. Microservices and containerized applications are self-contained with minimal dependencies on the operating system. These contemporary, ...

Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple OSx are the software “bridge” between application code and computer hardware. It’s the operating system (OS) that defines the capabilities ...

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 designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is part of ...

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 ...

Microsoft's researchers are working on yet another operating-system research project which can trace its roots to the company's Singularity project. This new operating system, known as Helios, is a ...