Mesosphere’s DC/OS data centre platform is powered by Microsoft and other tech giants

To take open source to new levels, cloud computing startup, Mesosphere, has developed a new community for its data centre operating system (DC/OS). The new platform is not just the newest, large-scale open source solution but is also the latest offering that has the direct support of more than 60 tech companies, including Microsoft, Puppet, EMC, Autodesk, Cisco and Accenture, among others.

Unlike a traditional data centre OS that requires multiple software infrastructure platforms, the Mesosphere DC/OS supposedly provides an ‘easy deployment’of applications on a single platform. There are components like service discovery and load balancing, deployment and package management, logging and metrics, as well as Web and command line user interfaces. Moreover, the platform is sufficient to run your tasks on shared resources by extending the built-in open source capabilities.

“The product of years of work by Mesosphere, and backed by dozens of partners big and small, DC/OS gives all companies the foundation they need to thrive in a software-defined economy. Keep reading to learn more about how