Chef Extends Automation Reach to Containers

Chef Extends Automation Reach to Containers

IT operations teams are about to be confronted with an unprecedented number of microservices based on containers moving into production environments. As such, more reliance on IT automation frameworks is all but ...
How Microservices Are Transforming Big Data Analytics

How Microservices Are Transforming Big Data Analytics

One of the primary reasons analytics and business intelligence (BI) software use is so limited is that the applications are too limiting to justify the investment. After the application is acquired and ...
Dell EMC Extends Container Alliance with Mesosphere

Dell EMC Extends Container Alliance with Mesosphere

At the Dell EMC 2017 conference this week, Dell EMC expanded its relationship with Mesosphere as part of an effort to couple the transition to memory-intensive microservices that are driving IT organizations ...
Dell Boomi Relies on Containers to Extend Integration Reach

Dell Boomi Relies on Containers to Extend Integration Reach

Microservices based on containers are fundamentally changing the way IT organizations approach both application integration and application programming interface (API) management. At the Dell EMC World 2017 conference this week, Dell Boomi ...
Microsoft: Microservices Driving New Era of Computing

Microsoft: Microservices Driving New Era of Computing

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference this week told developers that a new era of computing enabled by the rise of microservices and artificial intelligence (AI) applications is ...
Coming to Terms with Container Security

Coming to Terms with Container Security

When it comes to emerging technologies of almost any kind, there’s a natural amount of fear and loathing involving IT security. In almost every case, security is cited as the No. 1 ...
RancherOS Lightweight OS Comes of Age

RancherOS Lightweight OS Comes of Age

As containers become more prevalent across the enterprise, it’s become apparent that server operating systems will never be the same again. Because containers package so many of the libraries and subsystems that ...
Weaveworks Monitors Multiple Container Platforms

Weaveworks Monitors Multiple Container Platforms

As microservices adoption increases and the technology matures, Weaveworks is betting that most IT organizations will need to support container applications running on two or more container platforms. The latest release of ...
Red Hat: Containers Are New Atomic Unit

Red Hat: Containers Are New Atomic Unit

At a Red Hat Summit 2017 conference today Red Hat today launched a slew of initiatives that collectively serve to confirm that containers are the new atomic unit of application development and ...
Microservices' Role in Transforming IT Security

Microservices’ Role in Transforming IT Security

Thanks to the rise of microservices, IT security may never be the same. IT organizations increasingly need to leverage massive amounts of compute horsepower to thwart attacks that are increasing in size ...