As Editor-in-chief of DevOps.com and Container Journal, Alan Shimel is attuned to the world of technology. Alan has founded and helped several technology ventures, including StillSecure, where he guided the company in bringing innovative and effective networking and security solutions to the marketplace. Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing on DevOps.com and Network World, his commentary about the state of technology is followed closely by many industry insiders via his blog and podcast, "Ashimmy, After All These Years" (www.ashimmy.com). Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field, and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.
Cypherpath Pioneers Software-Defined Infrastructure Containers
Containers are hot, hot, hot. But how are they really going to change the world? I have seen the future and it is software-defined infrastructure powered by containers. A company I recently ...
What Are Your Plans On Containers? Take a Quick Container Survey
I know by now you have probably answered a container survey or two about how you and your organization are using containers in your IT plans. You may have even answered one ...
DevOps Chat: Mohit Bhatnagar of ClusterHQ
This episode of DevOps Chat feataures Mohit Bhatnagar, vice president of product at ClusterHQ. We spoke about the recent survey DevOps.com did in partnership with ClusterHQ. What are the biggest concerns regarding ...
Docker Swallows Up Unikernel Systems
The Docker whale has swallowed another Jonah. This time it is Unikernal Systems and it could be one of the best acquisitions the Docker team has made to date. That is saying ...
DockerCon Barcelona day 2 highlights
Well day 2 of DockerCon Barcelona is in the books and today’s highlights are primarily big news from Docker. A major theme from Docker is the Containers-as-a-Service program they are rolling out ...
DockerCon Barcelona day one highlights
It was a big day for DockerCon Barcelona. If there was one theme for the day it was container security. Docker led this theme off with three security related new functionality announcements: ...
Meet Clair, open source vulnerability analysis on containers
DockerCon Barcelona has lots of buzz coming out of it and we will be covering all of the action here this week. We wanted to lead off with a story that was ...
Containers Enable DevOps and Hybrid Clouds, But Sandboxes Are Also Critical for IT Success
Gartner predicts that by 2016, nearly 25% of the Global 2000 IT organizations will be mainstreaming DevOps methodologies for bringing applications into production IT. A recent 451 Research survey of enterprises found ...
CoreOS releases Tectonic to General Availability
After months if not years of development and beta testing with many users CoreOS is taking the wraps off its Tectonic complete container infrastructure stack. We have reported several times on Tectonic ...
Docker acquires Tutum, another piece in building a complete offering
Docker today announced that it has acquired the NY based, TechStars accelerated company Tutum which has developed a “cloud service to deploy and manage Dockerized applications into production on any infrastructure.” This ...