The team at CoreOS recently announced three big, concurrent news items. First, CoreOS rolled out its two flagship products: CoreOS Managed Linux, which bills as "the world's first OS as a Service", and CoreUpdate, which provides a dashboard for full control of rolling updates. Second, CoreOS announced the receipt of $8 million in funding from the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byer, meaning you are sure to hear more about CoreOS in the future. Capital is following this development because companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and others must run their services at scale with high resilience. The solution is CoreOS, a new Linux OS that has been re-architected to provide the foundation of warehouse-scale computing. CoreOS customers receive a continuous stream of updates and patches (via CoreUpdate), as well as a high level of commercial support, eliminating the need for major OS migrations every few years. The goal is to make the migration to CoreOS's products the last migration they ever need. Included platforms are Bare Metal, Amazon, Google and Rackspace, among others.
