Containers
Containers are a form of operating system virtualisation that allows developers to isolate and package up all or part of an application, effectively into a portable building block. Open-source Docker and Google-backed Kubernetes are both high-profile example of container technology, with IBM, Microsoft and Red Hat all championing the use of the former within their products and environments.
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News : Containers
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November 17, 2019
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Australian bourse to overhaul technology infrastructure
The Australian Securities Exchange is embracing digital ledger technology, microservices and DevOps to modernise its core systems
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November 14, 2019
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Docker restructure sees enterprise platform business sold to open source cloud firm Mirantis
Docker, the company credited with popularising the notion of container technologies, sells off its enterprise arm as part of a wider business restructure
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November 05, 2019
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VMware readies on-premise and as-a-service hybrid offerings
During its annual VMworld event in Barcelona, VMware unveiled its vision for combining vSphere and Kubernetes
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November 05, 2019
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OpenStack to get standardisation boost in China
New standards are being developed by the OpenStack Foundation and a standards body to improve the interoperability of OpenStack distributions in China
In Depth : Containers
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Overcoming the container security conundrum: What enterprises need to know
Container technologies continue to shake up enterprise IT, but security concerns abound Continue Reading
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Evolution in action: The changing face of the datacentre
The role datacentres play in the wider enterprise IT landscape is changing, fuelling the demand for a mix of different types of facilities that are capable of meeting the growing variety of enterprise data-processing requirements Continue Reading
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Microsoft’s road to multicloud support
From Microsoft’s perspective, multicloud is more about portability than resiliency Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Containers
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Kubernetes catches up with operational reality
With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull out one ... Continue Reading
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Kubernetes management made easier for enterprises
In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, CTO at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy, Steamhaus, sets out why the emergence of Amazon's managed Kubernetes service is such good news for the ... Continue Reading
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Open source is growing up – and here’s how
If you’re among those who still think that open source is just for hobbyists and academics, think again. Open source is mature now, both as a concept and as tools for building enterprise IT, and we ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Containers
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Security Think Tank: The security role of SDN, containers, encryption and SDP
How can organisations combine software-defined networking, containerisation and encryption to prevent rogue code from running freely across a corporate network? Continue Reading
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The second coming of private cloud: Righting the wrongs of previous deployments
The first generation of private cloud failed to hit the mark with enterprises, but things have improved Continue Reading
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Infrastructure as code: What does it mean and why does it matter?
The emergence of software-defined hardware has given rise to the phrase “infrastructure as code” to describe the way these environments are managed Continue Reading