At the Huawei Developer Conference today, Huawei launched HarmonyOS – a new microkernel-based, distributed operating system designed to deliver a cohesive user experience across all devices and ...

Amazon's service architecture. Image courtesy Amazon. The idea of a distributed operating system has been around in academia for a long time.

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.

The distributed operating system enables dynamic configuration so that multicore computers with/without local hard disks are dynamically connected or disconnected in response to the application's ...

From mainframes to distributed computing to desktops and now the Cloud, Maritz has served a central role in building and scaling computing platforms that change the way we do business and communicate.

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