Who's Making Money from Containers? Docker, Red Hat, AWS and MSFT

Who’s Making Money from Containers? Docker, Red Hat, AWS and MSFT

Who’s making money off of Docker containers? That’s a question you’ll be hearing more and more as containers enter production environments. To help answer it, we prepared a roundup of the companies ...
Oracle Hybrid Cloud Revolves Around Microservices Runtime

Oracle Hybrid Cloud Revolves Around Microservices Runtime

At the core of Oracle’s hybrid cloud computing strategy is an approach to containers that relies on a management plane residing in the network rather than in the hypervisor. At its CloudWorld ...
Microsoft Advances Container Agenda

Microsoft Advances Container Agenda

Microsoft has delivered a series of updates on its microservices strategy spanning everything from a managed Azure Container Service (ACS) to Azure Functions that drive a serverless instance of the Microsoft cloud ...
CoreOS Taps Redspread Founders for Kubernetes

CoreOS Taps Redspread Founders for Kubernetes

As an open-source container orchestration engine, Kubernetes enjoys broad industry support. The challenge is, it is a technology designed primarily for engineers by Google engineers. But since Google decided to make Kubernetes ...
Why Does Docker for Windows Matter?

Why Does Docker for Windows Matter?

Last month, Docker and Microsoft partnered to bring official Docker container support to Windows. If you’re a developer, you may be asking, “Why?” Keep reading for some perspective. On its face, Docker’s ...
Microsoft Formally Enters the Docker Container Era

Microsoft Formally Enters the Docker Container Era

In what is certainly a historic day for the Docker container community and perhaps all of IT, Microsoft and Docker Inc. today announced a slew of initiatives built on top of a ...
Mirantis Acquires TCP Cloud to Advance Kubernetes Ambitions

Mirantis Acquires TCP Cloud to Advance Kubernetes Ambitions

Moving to accelerate the rate at which the OpenStack cloud platform can be hosted on the Kubernetes container orchestration platform, Mirantis today announced it has acquired TCP Cloud. Based in Prague, TCP ...
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 ...
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 ...
Container Drawbacks: When Not to Use Docker

Container Drawbacks: When Not to Use Docker

Containers from Docker and other vendors are trending pretty spectacularly right now. But they’re not a perfect solution for every type of infrastructure challenge. Like any other technology, they have their drawbacks ...