When Red Hat began building out its OpenShift cloud application platform more than five years ago, the open source software vendor found itself in a similar situation as others in the growing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) space: they were all using technologies developed in-house because there were no real standards in the industry that could be used to guide them. …
In the server virtualization era, there were a couple of virtual machine formats and hypervisors to match them, and despite the desire for a common VM format, the virtual server stacks got siloed into ESXi, KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V stacks with some spicing of PowerVM, Solaris containers and LDOMs, and VM/ESA partitions sprinkled on. …
There is an adage, not quite yet old, suggesting that compute is free but storage is not. …
It happens time and time again with any new technology. Coders create this new thing, it gets deployed as an experiment and, if it is an open source project, shared with the world. …
Containers continue to gain momentum as organizations look for greater efficiencies and lower costs to run distributed applications in their increasingly virtualized datacenters as well as for improving their application development environments. …
Linux container technology is IT’s shiny new thing. Containers promise to ease application development and deployment, a necessity in a business environment where getting ahead of application demand can mean the difference between staying in business or not. …
The most successful players in the information technology space are those that can adapt, again and again, to tumultuous change. …
There is no question that Docker is emerging as the dominant container format and runtime for the encapsulation of the modern microservices way of creating and deploying software, and that container podding systems like Google’s Kubernetes or Docker’s Swarm are useful for managing a container collective that expresses an application. …
Online auctioneer eBay was founded a year after Amazon and is older than Google, Facebook, and a number of the other hyperscalers. …
The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. …
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