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.

EMC Bets on Unikernels with Open Source UniK
EMC has unveiled UniK, an open source orchestrator tool designed to simplify the creation of unikernels for cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) environments. The company says UniK, which it announced on ...

Aqua Launches Container Security Suite
Aqua Container Security Platform launched recently as the latest entry into the container scene, promising enterprise-ready security and compliance for container environments. General availability of the new platform was announced May 18 ...

Tigera Promises “Policy-Based” Layer 3 Networking for Containers, Cloud
Revamping container networking is the goal of a startup called Tigera, which launched a few days ago with the promise of delivering policy-based networking through a new platform called Canal. Well, actually, ...

Univa Announces Kubernetes-Compatible Management Tool for Containers
Univa, a high-performance computing (HPC) solutions provider, hopes to expand its presence in the container and microservices market with the announcement of what it calls a “first of its kind” enterprise container ...

Docker Debuts Security Scanning for Docker Cloud Containers
Docker Security Scanning, the company’s alternative to CoreOS Clair, is out this week, adding another security and code validation option for DevOps and continuous integration workflows. Docker announced Security Scanning on Tuesday, ...

Wercker Workflows Promises More Docker Container Automation via Pipelines
Wercker has debuted a new container automation platform, Wercker Workflows, which the company says will simplify the process of building and deploying Docker containers to platforms like AWS and CoreOS. Essentially, Wercker ...

Survey: Container Adoption Steady, But Lack of Skills Remains A Concern
Who’s using containers, and what are they using them for? Just as importantly, who’s not yet using containers, and why? A survey out this week from continuous integration provider Shippable offers some ...

Sematext Joins Docker ETP Partner Program for Container Monitoring
Sematext has become the latest company to join Docker’s Ecosystem Technology Partner (ETP) program for monitoring, bringing its Elasticsearch-based data analytics platform to the official Docker channel. To understand where this news ...

7 Web Interfaces for Container Management and Orchestration
Managing containers used to be a command-line affair. But a rich and growing ecosystem of Web-based interfaces for containers has now emerged. Here’s an overview of the different Web UIs available for ...

Canonical Promotes LXD Containers through Ubuntu 16.04 Release
LXD, Canonical’s LXC-based container platform, is still cooling from the oven, but the company is pushing it hard to enterprises through the release this week of Ubuntu Linux 16.04, where LXD is ...