by Angela Guess
According to the company’s website, “TidalScale has built a unique layer of software, called the Hyper Kernel, that sits underneath an operating system such as Linux. The Hyper Kernel is very low-level and very fast. Effectively, TidalScale does the inverse of what the current crop of virtualization products do. Instead of running multiple virtual machines in a single physical server, TidalScale runs multiple physical servers in a single virtual machine — and is completely invisible to the guest operating system and software applications!” A report written by Peter Christy and John Abbott of 451 Research reports, “In the year since we last reported on the company, TidalScale received the anticipated $12m series A funding round, says it achieved excellent stability of its software and just announced a first paying customer for its product, which is now generally available.”
The report continues, “TidalScale uses nested hypervisor architecture in a ‘reverse’ fashion to create a virtual machine with the composed resources of all the servers in a network-interconnected cluster. The initial commercial value that TidalScale has found is the ability to synthesize very cost-effective large-memory servers, enabling customers to work on problems that were economically unaffordable before. As with the use of a hypervisor, the software workload (application and operating system) run completely unchanged.”
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