In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address problems that you thought had been solved long ago. …
As the underdog in cloud computing, Google has to take a slightly different tack from industry pioneer and juggernaut Amazon Web Services, which simply believes that all applications should, in the fullness of time, move to the public cloud. …
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. …
Containers have been getting a lot of attention in the enterprise over the past several years, thanks to them being an enabling technology for greater operational agility, especially in developing customer-facing applications and getting the code into production with greater speed. …
It is safe to say that VMware would have been perfectly happy if Docker containers had never been invented. …
Linux has gradually grown in importance along with the Internet and now the hyperscalers that define the next generation of experience on that global network. …
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week is a long time in politics. …
One of the most important lessons in marketing is that you don’t change something that is working, but that you also have to be able to carefully and cautiously innovate to protect against changing tastes or practices that might also spell doom for the business. …
It is fair to say that containers in HPC are a big deal. …
As enterprises continue to spread their workloads around – keeping some in their core datacenters while placing others in either private clouds or sprinkling them among disparate public clouds – the portability, visibility and management of those applications becomes an issue. …
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