Docker Inc. vs. VMware: Observations on the Docker Container Market

Docker Inc. vs. VMware: Observations on the Docker Container Market

To understand what makes containers different from virtual machines—and what the future of Docker the company will be—it’s worth comparing the rise of Docker Inc. to the rise of VMware. To be ...
Cloud Foundry Brings IT to Where the Developers Are

Cloud Foundry Brings IT to Where the Developers Are

Popular wisdom holds that a shortage of developers hamstrings rollouts of new applications. But, as it turns out, organizations that have invested in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments and containers suffer much less in ...
HPE Rises to Container Management Challenge

HPE Rises to Container Management Challenge

As containers rise in popularity, IT vendors are racing to develop management frameworks that will enable IT organizations to manage containers wherever they reside. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it ...
SUSE Preps CaaS Platform Atop Kubernetes

SUSE Preps CaaS Platform Atop Kubernetes

Now that IT organizations are getting more comfortable with containers, IT vendors are starting to position themselves to provide the frameworks through which all those containers will be managed. SUSE has become ...
The Current State of Persistent Storage for Docker

The Current State of Persistent Storage for Docker

If there’s one area where Docker container tooling remains weak, it’s the realm of persistent storage. Here’s why storage solutions for containers continue to come up short, and a look at the ...
IBM Working with Google, Lyft on Microservices Management

IBM Working with Google, Lyft on Microservices Management

IBM is partnering with Google and Lyft on developing microservice management infrastructure for applications built on top of Kubernetes. At the same time, IBM is working on extending a framework for managing ...
The Docker Paradox: Containers Trade Simplicity for Agility

The Docker Paradox: Containers Trade Simplicity for Agility

Docker containers make life easier. But they also make it more complicated. This is the Docker paradox. Here’s what it means. If you’re familiar with Docker, you likely already understand how it ...
IBM Predicts Container Sprawl Will Force DevOps Issues

IBM Predicts Container Sprawl Will Force DevOps Issues

IBM has discovered that the surest path to container and microservices sprawl is to not have sound DevOps processes in place before adopting them. Angel Diaz, vice president of Cloud Technology and ...
The Money Question: Diamanti Discusses Containers, VMs and TCO

The Money Question: Diamanti Discusses Containers, VMs and TCO

Docker containers are cool, they help you be agile and they consume resources more efficiently. That you know. But here’s the burning question: Will containers save you money? That’s what I recently ...
Weaveworks Unfurls Managed CI/CD Service for Microservices

Weaveworks Unfurls Managed CI/CD Service for Microservices

As more organizations opt to deploy container applications in the cloud, the processes used to build them are following suit. This week at the CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 conference Weaveworks announced ...