With a new Windows release now just around the corner, we're all thinking about desktop and mobile operating systems. But desktop OSes are only the tip of
today's computational iceberg, with much of the work we used to do on our PCs moving over into the cloud, and onto ever growing fleets of disaggregated compute, memory, storage, and networking.
Two events last week put this into some perspective, with cloud software and infrastructure beginning to open up and expose the APIs and features we need to have a cloud-scale OS.
First was the Open Compute Projects 2015 US Summit, a gathering of engineers from across the industry, sharing their work on open hardware standards for cloud-scale services.
Founded by Facebook, OCP has grown to encompass much of the at-scale hardware industry, along with proprietary and open virtualization software providers. It's a fascinating convergence of ideas and technologies, where competition is left behind as engineers try to solve the problems that all cloud providers have.
