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. …
The container craze on Linux platforms just took an interesting twist now that Red Hat is shelling out $250 million to acquire its upstart rival in Linux and containers, CoreOS. …
While containers are old news in enterprise circles, by and large, high performance computing centers have just recently begun to consider packaging up their complex applications. …
There is an old adage that the best way to predict the future is to create it. …
Putting legacy monolithic applications into production is like moving giant boulders across the landscape. …
No business can avoid being inspired if not somewhat alarmed by the vast infrastructure that the hyperscalers of the world have put together in the past decade and their ability to squeeze efficiencies out of their datacenters. …
What layer of software is ultimately going to be in control of the fabric of compute, storage, and networking that organizations all over the world have been gradually building? …
Sometimes the old ideas are the best ones, but they sometimes get ahead of their time. …
The point of software containers is to provide a level of abstraction for bits of system and application programs so they can be run anywhere and maintained easily. …
Software containers are different from virtual machines and the hypervisers that host them, and they need a very different set of management tools to use them in large scale enterprise, hyperscale, and cloud environments. …
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