The Container Revolution
The move comes amid an enormous revolution sweeping information technology, one in which big-name companies and startups alike aim to recreate Borg for the rest of the world. Alex Polvi, who runs one of these startups, CoreOS, describes the revolution with a hashtag: #GIFEE, or Google Infrastructure For Everyone Else—which is even catchier. In addition to Mesosphere and CoreOS, a company called Docker is pushing this idea alongside the biggest names in cloud computing: Amazon, Microsoft, and, yes, Google.
A fascinating explanation of the secret Google OS known as the BORG. Meso and CoreOS are efforts to emmulate the BORG, but in 2014 Google open sourced the BORG foundation in a project known as "Kubernetes". What makes the Borg so incredibly more efficient then "Virtualization" is the use of "containers". Containers can run on the bare metal BORG OS, or, they can run on top of a Virtualized OS.