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Another IT Security Deal Targets Docker Containers

As enterprises seek ways to nail down IT security for a growing list of open-source infrastructure distributions, the security sector is moving toward critical mass with an increasing number ...Full Article

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App Development Said to Propel OpenStack

Cloud-native application development is among the drivers of OpenStack production deployments, which more than doubled over the last year, according to a new vendor survey. The survey results released ...Full Article

Docker, CoreOS Announce Container Deals

Docker Inc. has tapped into the emerging high-volume Chinese cloud market in a deal to provide a range of application container services to the cloud-computing arm of Chinese e-commerce ...Full Article

Microsoft Launches Docker on Windows Server

Container leader Docker is broadening a partnership with Microsoft to run Docker Engine and a datacenter management platform with Windows Server 2016. The partners rolled out the first technical ...Full Article

Container Vendors Downplay ‘Memory Pressure’ Concerns

Leading purveyors of application container infrastructure are downplaying a recent analysis that identifies a resource management feature in the Linux kernel as a potential "performance killer." LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) ...Full Article

Container Testing Reveals ‘Memory Pressure’ on Apps

With early adopters of application container technology completing early testing in multi-tenant settings, potential performance issues are beginning to surface. Among them, according to hyper-scaler LinkedIn, is a Linux ...Full Article

Virtual Net Guides Containers Across Multiple Clouds

The latest release of a network virtualization overlay is designed to connect multiple OpenStack cloud implementations while providing a software-defined networking (SDN) approach to emerging container orchestration engines making ...Full Article

Deployment Hurdles Emerge as Containers Go Mainstream

Application container deployment is accelerating as security and persistent storage concerns are addressed and enterprises seek to capitalize on the potential efficiencies, flexibility and long-term savings offered by distributed ...Full Article

Pivotal Adds Ubuntu to Cloud Foundry

The steady shift to cloud native infrastructure continues with a partnership between enterprise software vendor Pivotal and Linux specialist Canonical that will provide secure images from Canonical's Linux distribution ...Full Article

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IoT, Containers Seen Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Push

The steady, seemingly inexorable, shift to enterprise hybrid cloud infrastructure is being driven by factors ranging from the disaggregation of storage from computing resources in the datacenter to the ...Full Article