Control
Locking Down Docker To Open Up Enterprise Adoption
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. …
Docker
AI
A New Twist On Adding Data Persistence To Containers
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. …
Compute
Making The Case For Containers
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. …
Code
When Will Containers Be the Total Package for HPC?
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. …
Cloud
VMware’s Embrace And Extend Strategy
The most successful players in the information technology space are those that can adapt, again and again, to tumultuous change. …
Cloud
Rancher Rides Herd On Containers, Borg Style
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. …
Control
Kubernetes Container Juggling Reaches Towards Hyperscale
Putting legacy monolithic applications into production is like moving giant boulders across the landscape. …
Uncategorized
Inside eBay’s Shift To Kubernetes And Containers Atop OpenStack
Online auctioneer eBay was founded a year after Amazon and is older than Google, Facebook, and a number of the other hyperscalers. …
Cloud
Azure CTO Plots The Future Of Cloud Building
A public cloud is, at its most basic level, a giant shared computing facility that spans a datacenter or multiple datacenters, and as such, it needs a kind of operating system of its own to make the collection of servers, storage, and switches behave as a single machine to both its users and to the company that is operating the cloud. …
Control
What Makes Containers At Scale So Difficult
As has been demonstrated, it is relatively easy to launch tens of thousands of containers on a single host. …