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Red Hat and Microsoft Prep Managed OpenShift Service

Red Hat and Microsoft, at the Red Hat Summit 2018 conference this week, announced their intention to deliver an instance of the OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment on the Microsoft Azure cloud that ...

Mike Vizard | May 10, 2018 | Azure cloud, kubernetes, microsoft, Openshift, red hat

Microsoft Makes Serverless Frameworks More Accessible

At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 conference this week, Microsoft updated its Kubernetes connector dubbed Virtual Kubelet, which provides a simpler means to invoke serverless computing frameworks without having to master a ...

Mike Vizard | December 8, 2017 | hybrid cloud, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 conference, Kubelet, kubernetes, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, public cloud, serverless computing, serverless framework

How Microsoft is Revamping its Docker Container Strategy

The future of profitability in the container market lies in Kubernetes hosting. That, at least, seems to be the new stance from Microsoft, whose container market strategy has evolved significantly over the ...

Christopher Tozzi | November 3, 2017 | container strategy, containers, docker, kubernetes, linux, microsoft, open source, Windows

Microsoft Previews Managed Kubernetes Service on Azure

As part of an effort to eliminate a Kubernetes management tax, Microsoft previewed a managed instance of Kubernetes clusters running on Azure that it will manage on behalf of customers for free ...

Mike Vizard | October 26, 2017 | Azure, Azure Container Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, cloud, containers, Docker Enterprise Edition, Docker Swarm, managed Kubernetes, microservices, microsoft, public cloud

Microsoft: Higher Levels of Abstraction Needed

Now that a level of détente has been established between the Kubernetes community and supporters of rival approaches such as Docker Swarm, the focus of the container community needs to shift more ...

Mike Vizard | October 23, 2017 | CaaS, containers, distributed systems, docker, kubernetes, microsoft, PaaS, swarm

IBM Joins Docker to Shift Apps to the Cloud

Docker Inc. at the DockerCon Europe 2017 conference extended its alliance with IBM as part of an effort to entice more IT organizations to lift and shift existing legacy applications into the ...

Mike Vizard | October 18, 2017 | alliance, containers, Docker Enterprise Edition, Docker Inc., DockerCon Europe, IBM, microservices, microsoft, Modernize Traditional Application program

Microsoft: Embrace Containers or Face Extinction

A principal technology evangelist for Microsoft told attendees this week at the NextStep 2017 conference hosted by OutSystems that organizations that don’t adopt containers as the fundamental unit of work for building ...

Mike Vizard | September 22, 2017 | aws, cloud services, container adoption, containers, linux, microservices, microsoft, OutSystems

DH2i Enables Container Migration Between Windows, Linux

It’s now possible to move Docker containers between Linux and Windows systems by deploying the latest version of DxEnterprise virtual host software from DH2i. A version 17 release of DxEnterprise unveiled this ...

Mike Vizard | September 1, 2017 | container, container migration, containers, DH2i, docker, linux, microsoft, Microsoft SQL Server

Red Hat Extends Microsoft Alliance into Container Realm

Looking to extend an existing hybrid cloud computing alliance into the realm of containers, Red Hat and Microsoft this week announced integration between instances of Windows servers hosting containers and the Red ...

Mike Vizard | August 23, 2017 | containers, kubernetes, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, PaaS, platform as a service, public cloud, red hat, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated

Red Hat Previews OpenShift Container Platform Additions

An update to the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform made available this week includes a technology preview of service broker and service catalog technology originally developed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Also ...