Cloud-Native Development
IBM Bets on Bare Metal Servers for Kubernetes
IBM this week expanded the scope of its ambitions for containers in the cloud by making available an instance of its managed cloud service that includes a bare-metal option for deploying Kubernetes ...
Google and Ubisoft Push Kubernetes for Video Game Industry
Hosting video games using Kubernetes—as Google’s new open source Agones project allows you to do—may not be the first Kubernetes use case that comes to mind. But it speaks volumes about just ...
MapR Ties Kubernetes to Persistent Storage
MapR Technologies at the Strata Data Conference this week announced it is incorporating Kubernetes into the MapR Data Fabric developed to provide access to persistent storage for both monolithic and microservices-based applications ...
Docker Expands Windows Desktop Support, Automates Kubernetes Clusters
Docker wants to make Kubernetes management on a Windows desktop more robust—and easier. Docker’s recently introduced Windows Desktop 18.02 Edge release includes, among other features, an option to automate the installation of ...
Will Docker Ever Totally Kill Virtual Machines?
Docker containers are everywhere. Kubernetes is a household word (in geek households, at least). Yet the question remains: Will containers ever totally displace virtual machines? That’s a question worth asking as Docker’s ...
Amdocs Unveils Platform for Building Microservices
Amdocs, at the Mobile World Congress 2018 conference this week, launched a microservices-focused development platform based on Kubernetes that is optimized to meet the requirements of telecommunications service providers. Daniela Perlmutter, vice ...
Arm Sees Containers Driving IoT Applications
Arm, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 conference this week, announced it will make available an on-premises edition of its Mbed Cloud platform for managing internet of things (IoT) devices based ...
5 Notable Container Company Acquisitions
Containers are at the center of an growing list of business acquisitions. Here’s a list of the five most significant acquisitions that have occurred in the container list to date. Red Hat ...
How Docker Containers Make Life Easy for Bitcoin-Mining Attackers
Crypto-mining script kiddies are coming to steal your Docker environment. That’s the warning from Aqua Security, which has published a report about attacks against containerized environments by people who want to mine ...
CNCF Explains Role of Serverless Computing Frameworks
Just about every serverless computing framework of any consequence make use of containers as the enabling technology on which an event-driven architecture gets built. To help IT organizations get a better handle ...

