The growing interest in so-called data center operating systems such as OpenStack and Mesosphere Inc.’s DCOS has spurred IBM Corp. to join the fray today with its own automation platform. Dubbed Spectrum Conductor, the software promises to do away with much of the duplicate componentry and expenses that burden IT departments.
According to the vendor, this feat is made possible by a homegrown access mechanism that provides the ability to share information among the applications that need it instead of having to make a separate copy for each. Much of the credit goes to File Placement Optimizer, a set of low-level data management features included in Spectrum Conductor that accelerate read and write operations. IBM says that the benefits become especially pronounced in environments with multiple Spark instances, where its software can move infrastructure resources around as usage patterns change.
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