OCI Specification Gets Ratified

OCI Specification Gets Ratified

With the ratification of an Open Container Initiative 1.0 (OCI) specification announced today by The Linux Foundation, IT organizations now should have greater confidence in the fact that container images will be ...
IBM Intros Cloud Cost Analysis Tool to Drive Container Use

IBM Intros Cloud Cost Analysis Tool to Drive Container Use

IBM has unfurled a Cloud Brokerage Services Cost and Asset Management software-as-a-service (SaaS) application in response to the rising popularity of container adoption within on-premises IT environments. While many IT organizations once ...
IBM Teams up with Google, Lyft to Advance Container Networks

IBM Teams up with Google, Lyft to Advance Container Networks

While some progress has been made in creating a standard network interface for containers, the level of interoperability between containers themselves and other types of computing platforms still leaves much to be ...
Dockercon 2017: Docker Sharpens Enterprise Focus

Dockercon 2017: Docker Sharpens Enterprise Focus

For much of the existence of Docker, the primary focus of Docker Inc. has been on developing new applications. At the Dockercon 2017 conference this week, Docker Inc. made it clear it’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
IBM Advances OpenWhisk Serverless Computing Initiative

IBM Advances OpenWhisk Serverless Computing Initiative

Now that IBM and Adobe Systems are jointly leading the charge in terms of promoting adoption of an open-source serverless computing framework known as OpenWhisk, the two companies have implemented an application ...
IBM Couples Docker Containers to Blockchain Database

IBM Couples Docker Containers to Blockchain Database

IBM is employing Docker containers to make it easier for IT organizations to consume a blockchain service being hosted on IBM Cloud. Launched this week at the IBM InterConnect 2017 conference, IBM ...
IBM Launches Managed Kubernetes Service

IBM Launches Managed Kubernetes Service

IBM has become the latest in a string of cloud service providers to make Kubernetes available as a managed service. At the IBM InterConnect 2017 conference today, IBM unfurled IBM Bluemix Container ...
IBM: Rate of Cloud Adoption Bodes Well for Microservices

IBM: Rate of Cloud Adoption Bodes Well for Microservices

Just about every IT organization realizes by now that making the transition to the cloud is a journey. It begins with a few small steps involving a few software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and ...