Aqua Security Rises to PCI DSS Challenge for Containers

Aqua Security Rises to PCI DSS Challenge for Containers

Containers present many unique compliance challenges in terms of both visibility and the rate at which containers come and go in a production environment. To help address that issue, Aqua Security is ...
Container Security: Who's Doing It and How It Will Evolve

Container Security: Who’s Doing It and How It Will Evolve

As Docker has grown in popularity, so has the number of container security platforms available to help harden Docker environments against attack. Here’s an overview of the container security landscape today and ...
IBM Makes Case for Mainframes as Container Platforms

IBM Makes Case for Mainframes as Container Platforms

Later this year IBM plans to have put in place a licensing model that will provide a compelling financial incentive for IT organizations to deploy microservices based on containers on a new ...
StackRox Unveils Security Platform for Containers

StackRox Unveils Security Platform for Containers

An IT security platform specifically designed for container environments was unveiled this week by StackRox. Wei Lien Dang, vice president of product for StackRox, says existing IT security platforms don’t provide any ...
Kubernetes, System Containers Highlight Fedora 26 Atomic Host Release

Kubernetes, System Containers Highlight Fedora 26 Atomic Host Release

Fedora 26 Atomic Host, the latest version of the Linux distribution that Red Hat uses as its proving ground for RHEL, is out. It brings with it important updates involving Kubernetes and ...
OCI Specification Gets Ratified

OCI Specification Gets Ratified

With the ratification of an Open Container Initiative 1.0 (OCI) specification announced today by The Linux Foundation, IT organizations now should have greater confidence in the fact that container images will be ...
Why Docker Won't Kill Virtual Machines

Why Docker Won’t Kill Virtual Machines

Conventional wisdom posits that Docker containers are killing virtual machines. That’s an overstatement. VMware, KVM and other virtual machine platforms still have bright futures. Here’s why. There’s no doubt that Docker’s debut ...
TIBCO Acquires nanoscale.io to Drive Microservices

TIBCO Acquires nanoscale.io to Drive Microservices

The mutual dependency between microservices and APIs runs deep. In addition to spawning an API, each new microservice makes calls to any number of existing APIs. As part of an effort to ...
Jails, LXC and Beyond: Container Platform Round-Up

Jails, LXC and Beyond: Container Platform Round-Up

You know Docker. But do you know all of the other container platforms out there? Here’s the long list of container frameworks worth knowing about today, from LXC and OpenVZ to rkt ...
Google Extends Hybrid Appeal of Container Engine Cloud

Google Extends Hybrid Appeal of Container Engine Cloud

In terms of advancing container adoption, Google has been at the forefront, thanks mainly to its work on developing the Kubernetes container orchestration framework. The company this week moved to make those ...