Inside the Microservices War for Java Apps

Inside the Microservices War for Java Apps

Most of the monolithic applications that enterprise IT organizations are looking to deconstruct into more manageable microservices are written in Java. As that process gets underway in earnest, however, the two leading ...
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 ...
Red Hat Makes 3Scale API Management Available as Docker Container

Red Hat Makes 3Scale API Management Available as Docker Container

Red Hat, in a move that could advance the state of hybrid cloud computing considerably, announced it is making the API management platform it gained by acquiring 3Scale available as a Docker ...
Cloud Foundry Brings IT to Where the Developers Are

Cloud Foundry Brings IT to Where the Developers Are

Popular wisdom holds that a shortage of developers hamstrings rollouts of new applications. But, as it turns out, organizations that have invested in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments and containers suffer much less in ...
HPE Rises to Container Management Challenge

HPE Rises to Container Management Challenge

As containers rise in popularity, IT vendors are racing to develop management frameworks that will enable IT organizations to manage containers wherever they reside. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it ...
CaaS vs PaaS: What’s Right for You?

CaaS vs PaaS: What’s Right for You?

For cloud people like me—I’m the CTO at Cloud Foundry Foundation—containers are a constant conversation topic. The main issue is how to embrace this new application architecture and put containerized workloads into ...
SAP Looks to Microservices to Advance Hybrid Cloud Strategy

SAP Looks to Microservices to Advance Hybrid Cloud Strategy

At its recent Capital Markets Day SAP executives told industry analysts that microservices will soon emerge as a core technology that will enable the company to leapfrog competitors in implementing a multi-cloud ...
Mendix Embraces Multi-Faceted Approach to Containers

Mendix Embraces Multi-Faceted Approach to Containers

For some time now, a fair amount of momentum has been building around low-code approaches to building applications that both professional developers and gifted users could embrace as so-called “citizen developers.” As ...
SAP Approach to Microservices Comes into Focus

SAP Approach to Microservices Comes into Focus

SAP is now starting to use of multiple types of containers to make external applications available as a microservice that provide access to live data. When it comes to containers, SAP currently ...
How Docker Containers Help End Users

How Docker Containers Help End Users

Most discussion of Docker’s advantages centers on how containers help developers and admins. But what about end users, the people who use containerized applications? Docker is beneficial to them, too, in many ...