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MapR Targets Persistent Storage For Containers

Application containers get a lot of attention, but remain ephemeral. Converged data platform specialist MapR Technologies is looking to fill that gap in the application container ecosystem with the ...Full Article

Startup Targets Runtime Container Security

Promising stronger and faster security for application containers in production, a startup has unveiled a new continuous security approach based on adaptive behavioral learning. The approach is said to ...Full Article

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Container Market Pegged at $2.7B by 2020

As more evidence emerges regarding enterprise adoption of application containers in production, a market analyst finds that the micro-services are among the fastest growing technologies used to implement cloud ...Full Article

Is App Container Shakeout Underway?

The unexpected shut down of early application container developer ClusterHQ at the end of 2016 has some observers predicting that a shakeout in underway in the container sector as ...Full Article

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Containers Depart ‘Hype’ Phase in 2016

Application containers made the jump from prototype to production in 2016 as the distributed application technology began to make headway in hyper-scale IT infrastructure. Along with an expanding ecosystem, ...Full Article

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Container Encryption Targets Security, Downtime

Securing the contents of application containers based on Docker and other platforms has relied heavily on isolating individual containers from one another along with other access control approaches. Now, ...Full Article

‘Digital Transformation’ Uneven, Survey Finds

"Traditional" enterprises, a label attached to established companies struggling to make the transition to cloud and other digital platforms, get a failing grade when it comes to upgrading their ...Full Article

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Startup Heptio Takes Kubernetes Mainstream

Heptio is the latest application container startup, but it's pedigree runs deeper than most: The startup's founders are two Google veterans who created the Kubernetes container orchestrator that is ...Full Article

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Container Vendors Move to Plug Production Gaps

Another batch of management tools targeting application containers emerged this week as vendors continue to plug holes in the emerging micro-services ecosystem while extending the capabilities of leading container ...Full Article

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Container Manager Targets Multi-Cloud, Legacy Apps

As application containers move steadily to production, vendors are stressing the ability to securely transfer workloads across multiple clouds while at the same time managing both cloud-native and legacy ...Full Article