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Rate of Container Adoption Sparks Debate

There’s general agreement that containers have become one of the fastest emerging technologies to be adopted in the enterprise in recent memory. The debate now concerns that rate at which containers adoption ...

Mike Vizard | October 6, 2017 | CFF, Cloud Foundry Foundation, container adoption, container management, container orchestration, containers, kubernetes, survey

SAP Commits to Kubernetes Container Orchestrator

At its Tech-Ed 2017 conference this week, SAP made a major commitment to employing the Kubernetes container orchestration engine alongside the implemention of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service environment it already employs in ...

Mike Vizard | September 29, 2017 | CaaS, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, container as a service, container orchestration engine, kubernetes, PaaS, platform as a service, SAP, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP DataHub, SAP Tech-Ed 2017

Mirantis to Support Kubernetes on AWS

Mirantis made a name for itself by providing a curated distribution of the open-source OpenStack cloud management framework that organizations could deploy themselves or have Mirantis manage on their behalf. The company ...

Mike Vizard | September 28, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, aws, CaaS, Cloud Foundry, container as a service, kubernetes, Mirantis, Mirantis Cloud Platform, openstack, PaaS, platform as a service

Cumulus Networks Takes on Container Networking Challenge

As containers proliferate across the enterprise, a case is now being made for moving more networking functions on to the host where those containers reside. As such, Cumulus Networks has created the ...

Mike Vizard | August 24, 2017 | containers, Cumulus Host Pack, Cumulus Networks, linux, networking architecture, operating system

The Inherent Security Benefits of Docker Containers

Most blog posts about Docker security focus on how to make containers more secure. But it’s also worth appreciating the inherent security benefits that come with containers. Keep reading for insights on ...

Christopher Tozzi | May 18, 2017 | attack surface, containers, docker, environment parity, inherent security, modularity, open source, security, software updates, transparency

Microsoft Doubles Down on Containers with Deis Acquisition

I’m sure it’s not news to you that containers are a hot concept. If you were looking for proof or validation of that fact, though, look no further than the news that ...

Tony Bradley | April 18, 2017 | Azure, Deis, kubernetes, microsoft

A Security Guy’s Top 10 Container Ecosystem Milestones

2016 was a big year for the virtual container space, and 2017 looks even more promising. The industry saw tremendous growth and continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Containers, being still ...

contributor | January 2, 2017 | cloud, container, docker, funding, milestones, security, software, trends

SecDevOps and Containers: Kill the Candy-Related Analogies

Google “SecDevOps” and the results show that security teams are ready and willing to jump on the DevOps bandwagon. DevOps folks talk a lot about “shifting left,” i.e., addressing issues earlier in ...

contributor | September 13, 2016 | application hardening, CD, CI, containers, continuous delivery, continuous improvement, rugged devops, secdevops, security

Container Security: Why Bother?

Are containers secure? Probably not. But knowing each approach’s strengths and risks—and available options—could help ease adoption. Such a decision requires two primary considerations: Containers do not provide the same level of ...

contributor | August 31, 2016 | container, docker, kernel, lxc, security, VMs, vmware

Containers: Not One to Rule Them All

In the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, there was one ring to rule them all. Fortunately, when it comes to the container platform ecosystem, there’s far less of a monarchy. Not all ...