Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used by enterprises and developers thanks to Docker. …
Speaking in generalities across any aspect of history is always risky, but that is what the job of history is. …
Nvidia and VMware have forged a tight partnership when it comes to bringing AI to the enterprise, which stands to reason given the prevalence of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor and vSphere management tools across more than 300,000 companies worldwide. …
In a relatively few short years, Kubernetes has become the de facto orchestration platform for managing software containers, besting a lineup that included such contenders as Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …
Big Blue shelled out an incredible $34 billion to buy open source infrastructure software juggernaut Red Hat, and it is determined not to just tend and grow that business, which brought in around $3.85 billion in sales in 2019 as the deal closed and probably somewhere around $4.6 billion in 2020. …
From the time Kubernetes was born in the labs at Google by engineers Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie and then contributed to the open source community, it has become the de facto orchestration platform for containers, enabling easier development, scaling and movement of modern applications between on-premises datacenters and the cloud and between the multiple clouds – public and private – that enterprises are embracing. …
As is the case with any new technology, there is a lot of hype and misunderstanding that comes along with something that actually improves some aspect of the system. …
Going forward, there is little question that containers have become firmly established as the technology of choice for application deployment – at least until such a time as alternative approaches like serverless computing outgrow them in popularity. …
We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …
The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. …
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