What Are Your Plans On Containers?  Take a Quick Container Survey

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 ...
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Docker: Not Just for Linux Anymore. Or Is It?

Docker: Not Just for Linux Anymore. Or Is It?

Running Docker containers on Mac OS X and Windows is now easier than ever, thanks to integration with native hypervisors. The catch: You still have to use Linux to get Docker working ...
Docker 1.12 Release Goes Beyond Swarm Orchestration

Docker 1.12 Release Goes Beyond Swarm Orchestration

Docker 1.12 became generally available on July 28, bringing baked-in Swarm orchestration and performance and security enhancements to the container platform. Here’s a look at what you need to know about the ...
LXD and Canonical's Container Game Plan

LXD and Canonical’s Container Game Plan

LXD, Canonical‘s “machine container” platform, has been out now for a few months. What does the open-source company plan to do with LXD and how does it relate to Docker and other ...
Linux Containers: Comparing LXC and Docker

Linux Containers: Comparing LXC and Docker

As industry moves beyond the virtual machine (VM) consolidation paradigm, several types of containers have become prominent. Two flavors in particular currently enjoy the lion’s share of deployments on the Linux operating ...
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 ...
Stateful Container Apps Represent Next Big IT Challenge

Stateful Container Apps Represent Next Big IT Challenge

Containers are all the rage these days, but not every type of application lends itself to containers. In fact, most container applications in use today are stateless. In contrast, stateful applications, which ...
Mirantis to Deploy Fuel for OpenStack on Kubernetes

Mirantis to Deploy Fuel for OpenStack on Kubernetes

As part of a previously announced alliance with Intel and Google that will result in the OpenStack cloud computing framework being deployed on top of Kubernetes, Mirantis today revealed that the open-source ...
System Containers vs. Application Containers: Does the Difference Matter?

System Containers vs. Application Containers: Does the Difference Matter?

Is it time to differentiate between application containers and system containers? Some companies think so. Here’s a look at why the difference matters—or not, depending on your preferences. When people talk about ...
NetEnrich Survey: Containers Now All the Rage

NetEnrich Survey: Containers Now All the Rage

Containers arguably might be the fastest-growing emerging technology in terms of adoption in recent memory. This week NetEnrich, a provider of a platform through which managed IT services are delivered, released the ...