Software-defined servers: Move from monolithic to flexible servers without changing a single line of code (sponsored by TidalScale)

Ike Nassi explores the implications that software-defined servers will have on application and computing infrastructure.

The move from a monolithic application to a service-based application and ultimately to a microservices-based application is made difficult for large applications that require specialized hardware, because the software architecture ecosystem has operated under a longstanding constraint: applications could not exceed the boundaries of the bare-metal systems upon which they ran. Software-defined servers can bridge the gap between monolithic applications and services-based applications by offering the ability to run large applications on standard servers. TidalScale lets users deploy high-performance software-defined servers flexibly and easily. The TidalScale HyperKernel sits between an operating system and bare-metal hardware and allows customers to pool multiple commodity servers into a large software-defined server that matches the size of their data problems without changes to operating systems or applications. Ike Nassi explores the implications that software-defined servers will have on application and computing infrastructure. This session is sponsored by TidalScale.