Red Hat's OCID is a Docker Alternative, But Not a Fork

Red Hat’s OCID is a Docker Alternative, But Not a Fork

Is Red Hat’s new OCID project a fork of Docker? Unless you have an unorthodox definition of software fork, the answer is no. Recently, Red Hat announced it was backing the launch ...
Diamanti Adds MemSQL to Infrastructure Platform

Diamanti Adds MemSQL to Infrastructure Platform

One of the assumption most IT vendors make today is that containers mainly will be deployed using the same IT infrastructure that historically has been used to support virtual machines. But for ...
Container Security Needs to Be Easy

Container Security Needs to Be Easy

We are all familiar by now with the promised benefits of deploying applications with Docker containers. These include: Significant scalability and agility improvements, Predictable performance and resource isolation, and Application portability and ...
Citrix Offers ADC Technology as a Free Container

Citrix Offers ADC Technology as a Free Container

With developers increasingly calling the shots when it comes to what IT infrastructure will be used to support container applications, some IT infrastructure vendors are now going out of their way to ...
Microsoft Unveils Docker Container Monitoring Solution

Microsoft Unveils Docker Container Monitoring Solution

Microsoft has unveiled OMS Docker Container monitoring, signaling the company’s interest in delving deeper into the open-source container space. OMS Docker Container monitoring, which Microsoft announced during LinuxCon, is part of the company’s ...
Container Security: Why Bother?

Container Security: Why Bother?

Are containers secure? Probably not. But knowing each approach’s strengths and risks—and available options—could help ease adoption. Such a decision requires two primary considerations: Containers do not provide the same level of ...
What Vine's Registry Fiasco Means for Docker Security

What Vine’s Registry Fiasco Means for Docker Security

How secure are container registries? Not very secure if you make them public and hope no one guesses the URL where they’re hosted. That’s the lesson from the recent Docker registry security ...
CoreOS Diverges from Docker Model with etcd3 Launch

CoreOS Diverges from Docker Model with etcd3 Launch

CoreOS is pushing forward with its Kubernetes-centric container orchestration stack with the launch of etcd3, the next-generation version of its distributed key-value store. The company announced the stable release of etcd3 June ...

Sysdig Announces Enterprise-Grade Software for Container Monitoring

San Francisco, CA -June 21, 2016 – Today, Sysdig announces the availability of container monitoring software designed for enterprises to deploy entirely within their private clouds or in their virtual private clouds ...

Docker Engine 1.12 Democratizes Container Orchestration

Built-in orchestration features enable organizations to easily define and manage complex Dockerized applications from development through production Docker 1.12 provides Developers and IT Operations with built-in, decentralized orchestration capabilities that support multi-container ...