OpenStack unveils new open source project ‘Kata Containers’
The OpenStack Foundation announced a new open source project dubbed Kata Containers, which aims to combine the security benefits of virtual machines with the speed and manageability of container technologies. According to the organization, Kata Containers “is...
Sumo Logic releases unified logs and metrics solution for Kubernetes and Docker
Sumo Logic, a cloud-based log management and analytics service provider, announced a first-to-market unified logs and metrics solution aimed at improving applications running on Kubernetes and Docker.
Docker and Kubernetes are two container management...
Red Hat debuts newest version of OpenStack
Red Hat unveiled OpenStack Platform 12, the latest version of its cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), at the OpenStack Summit Sydney 2017. As part of the update, Red Hat, in addition to fixing glitches, is beginning to move all of...
A recent report published by marketsandmarkets accounted for a $789.1 million in value in 2016 for the Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) market and is expected to reach $4,080.4 million by 2022 with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 34.4% during the forecast period. According to...
Austin, Texas -- Containers and microservices are the future of software-defined storage platforms, according to Stephen Watt, chief architect for emerging technologies within Red Hat’s Office of Technology. As container technology impacts how users think about storage for applications and microservices, software-defined storage will...
Cloud Foundry survey finds container adoption more challenging than expected
Containers are the rage these days, but the adoption rate of the technology among enterprise companies is slow. That is the conclusion of a new Cloud Foundry survey, which found no dramatic increase in the...
Beyond the hype
Containers are a buzzword on the telecom scene today. Nevertheless, for all the attention containers have received, only 25% of companies actually use the technology, a mere 3% increase from 2016, according to Cloud Foundry’s Global Perception Study. While interest in containers...
Chris Wright, vice president and chief technologist at Red Hat, delivered a keynote presentation titled “Container, Culture and Community” at this year’s Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America.
Wright began noting what originally got him into open source. “I don’t know if I was...
Are containers taking over?
Virtual machines have taken the spotlight on the telecom stage within the last few years, but the technology is by no means a one-man show. Containers, which predate virtual machines, have taken on an increasingly important role lately largely thanks to...
The evolution of data centers
Data centers are constantly changing to stay up to pace with the latest tech novelties. Among the technologies anticipated to have the biggest impact on the data center market are containers, which have been championed by IT administrators as a...
New Pivotal Container Service promises to simplify container creation and management
Pivotal Software, Inc., VMware Inc. and Google announced at the VMWorld 2017 conference this week they are collaborating on a project that should make it easier for companies to create, deploy and manage containers...
The threat of cyber attacks
Securing any sort of technology is an arduous undertaking, especially in a world of cyber threats. SAP reports more than 80% of all cyberattacks are intended to impact specific software applications instead of the network. Among the most popular application...
The need for container orchestration
Containers are being embraced by enterprises across the industry. The lightweight technology allows service providers to package applications, along with their dependencies, libraries and other binaries, into isolated environments on an individual server. Accompanying the rise of containers is the...
A container renaissance?
Data centers have a new found interest in containers these days. The technology provides an alternative way to host multiple processes on an individual console without using virtual machines (VMs). Containers extrapolate various processes and resources, like memory and CPU, creating an...
Overview
Docker is one of the hottest products on the devops scene today. The open source platform deploys and updates applications inside containers on a single Linux operating system (OS). Those unfamiliar with the platform may find concepts anchored to the technology bewildering. To demystify...
What’s the hype?
Containers have hit the mainstream alongside virtual machines (VMs). Industry titans like Google, Docker, Linux and Amazon have embraced them with open arms. But what exactly are containers and, more importantly, do they live up to hype?
Background
Containers have been around for...
The push for virtualization
With the push for virtualization and cloud computing, virtual machines and containers are making big waves in the IT world. Major companies like Google, IBM and Microsoft have embraced the technologies to pump out multiple services on a single platform. Despite...
