As Editor-in-chief of DevOps.com and Container Journal, Alan Shimel is attuned to the world of technology. Alan has founded and helped several technology ventures, including StillSecure, where he guided the company in bringing innovative and effective networking and security solutions to the marketplace. Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing on DevOps.com and Network World, his commentary about the state of technology is followed closely by many industry insiders via his blog and podcast, "Ashimmy, After All These Years" (www.ashimmy.com). Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field, and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.
Containers Enable DevOps and Hybrid Clouds, But Sandboxes Are Also Critical for IT Success
Gartner predicts that by 2016, nearly 25% of the Global 2000 IT organizations will be mainstreaming DevOps methodologies for bringing applications into production IT. A recent 451 Research survey of enterprises found ...
CoreOS releases Tectonic to General Availability
After months if not years of development and beta testing with many users CoreOS is taking the wraps off its Tectonic complete container infrastructure stack. We have reported several times on Tectonic ...
Docker acquires Tutum, another piece in building a complete offering
Docker today announced that it has acquired the NY based, TechStars accelerated company Tutum which has developed a “cloud service to deploy and manage Dockerized applications into production on any infrastructure.” This ...
Illumio brings security to the Docker Mesosphere ecosystem
Illumio, a Silicon Valley Unicorn announced that its Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)TM will now work with Docker in the Mesosphere Data Center OS (DCOS). This integration brings a new level of security to ...
Container Q & A with Apcera CEO, Derek Collison
I recently had a chance to speak with Apcera CEO Derek Collision about his views on where the market is around containers. Below is the Q & A of our conversation. Also ...
CenturyLink open sources its own Docker dog food
There are many companies that are parasites on the open source community. They take, take, take but don’t give anything back to the open source community in spite of their protests that ...
Suse Linux supports Docker
There has been much written about CoreOS support for Docker. Red Hat is one of the leading contributors of Docker code. However, there is another major Linux distro that has added extensive ...
CloudBees and Jenkins support Kubernetes with 3 new plugins
In conjunction with the release of Kubernetes v1.0 and the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company and managers of the Jenkins community announced three new plugins ...
Google Kubernetes v1.0 released – it just got real
Today the good folks at Google Cloud Platform announced the release of Kubernetes v1.0. While acknowledging that there is still much work to be done, this milestone means Kubernetes is ready for ...
CoreOS Tectonic takes another step forward with Kubernetes 1.0 release
CoreOS announced today that they had released Tectonic Preview in conjunction with the release of Kubernetes 1.0. Tectonic Preview is the next step in moving Tectonic to general release. Previously it was ...
