Application containers

Docker Platform Preps Containers for Production

Directly addressing concerns about its readiness for production, application container leader Docker is rolling out "container-as-a-service" platform designed to ease application development and management at scale. The Docker Datacenter ...Full Article

App Containers Get a Needed Security Boost

Application container rivals CoreOS and Docker each released "production ready" versions of their platforms this week as the expanding container ecosystem moves to button down secure distribution of enterprise ...Full Article

Docker Acquires Cloud Pioneer Unikernel Systems

Industry consolidation around an emerging application container ecosystem gained momentum this week with Docker Inc.'s acquisition of U.K.-based Unikernel Systems, a developer of lightweight operating systems used to deliver ...Full Article

Hazelcast Platform Targets Cloud, App Container Rollouts

In-memory computing specialist Hazelcast Inc. rolled out the latest version of its "data grid" that includes support for new cloud management and application container deployments along with a higher ...Full Article

New Security, Automation Tools Emerge for Containers

New approaches to automating the management of open source software, especially emerging Linux-based application containers, are arriving at a steady pace from key open-source players and startups formed over ...Full Article

Red Hat Augments OpenShift For Container Push

Red Hat continues to build up its arsenal of OpenShift application platform capabilities as it adds integration and other middleware capabilities designed to get Docker containers up and running ...Full Article

Microsoft Cloud Gets a Container Partner

Microsoft's application container ecosystem continues to expand with the announcement this week by a virtualization, container and data management vendor that it would make its container technology available on ...Full Article

Standards Group Eyes Industry Consensus on Containers

The Open Container Initiative (OCI) launched earlier this year to develop industry standards for Linux-based containers said this week it has established a governing structure to oversee technical details ...Full Article

Cisco Expands Container Infrastructure Effort

Cisco Systems is taking an infrastructure approach to container-based application deployment via an open source project designed to define operational specifications for networking, storage and computing. Project Contiv unveiled ...Full Article