Christopher Tozzi has covered technology and business news for nearly a decade, specializing in open source, containers, big data, networking and security. He is currently Senior Editor and DevOps Analyst with Fixate.io and Sweetcode.io.
An Overview of Container Startups and Funding
How many container startups are there? What are their products? How much funding have they secured so far? These are all pertinent questions as container platforms such as Docker continue to take ...
The State of the Container Ecosystem Today
Docker containers are getting all the press, especially in the wake of DockerCon 2016. But Docker’s not the only show in town. Lest we forget the other container platforms that are out ...
Container Drawbacks: When Not to Use Docker
Containers from Docker and other vendors are trending pretty spectacularly right now. But they’re not a perfect solution for every type of infrastructure challenge. Like any other technology, they have their drawbacks ...
Pentaho Simplifies Containerized Big Data Analytics with New Tools
Pentaho, the open source big data company, is capitalizing on containers by building a new deployment tool for launching Docker-based big data servers. Pentaho, which is owned by Hitachi, develops a platform ...
WinDocks Expands Windows Container Support
Docker containers for Windows remain far from mainstream. But they’re now a little easier to deploy with the release of an enhanced version of WinDocks Community Edition. The latest version supports .Net ...
Survey: Containers are Hot, Scaling is Tough
Container adoption continues to rise, but organizations find that containers make infrastructure more complex rather than more simple. That’s according to a new survey report about international container adoption trends from the ...
Torus: CoreOS’s Answer to Data Storage
What will solve the persistent data storage challenge for containers? CoreOS says the answer is Torus, a new open source distributed storage platform it announced June 1. According to CoreOS, which announced ...
A Look at Container-Friendly PaaS Solutions
As the container ecosystem matures, so are platform-as-a-service (PaaS) systems for deploying containers. Here’s an overview of several PaaS solutions that support Docker and CoreOS containers. First, though, a quick note about ...
Testing Docker Containers? 3 Ways to Go Local
Docker containers are powerful, but they’re not always simple to test in a local environment. Still, there are ways to run Docker locally for testing purposes using tools such as Vagrant, Kitematic ...
Codenvy Report: Container VC Funding Totals $1.7B
Who’s adopting containers and DevOps, how much funding is DevOps technology securing and how fast is the container ecosystem growing? These are all questions Codenvy’s recent container “market map” helps to answer ...
