Chef Extends Automation Reach to Containers
IT operations teams are about to be confronted with an unprecedented number of microservices based on containers moving into production environments. As such, more reliance on IT automation frameworks is all but ...
HPE Commits to Mesosphere
When it comes to container technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been considerably more aggressive than any other major vendor in terms of bundling third-party platforms with its IT infrastructure offering. After ...
Database Containerization Platform Checklist
Containers are lightweight, fast and agile, and solve all dependency issues related to the applications. With such benefits, why aren’t we using containers for stateful apps? It certainly isn’t because of vendors ...
Mesosphere Presses Container 2.0 Case
In the grand scheme of IT things there are two major emerging technology trends creating a virtuous cycle of innovation. The first has been the rise of big data platforms that make ...
Linux Containers: Comparing LXC and Docker
As industry moves beyond the virtual machine (VM) consolidation paradigm, several types of containers have become prominent. Two flavors in particular currently enjoy the lion’s share of deployments on the Linux operating ...
Mesosphere Leads Formation of Open Source DC/OS Alliance
Moving to give IT organizations more confidence in an “open core” implementation of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS), Mesosphere this week announced the formation of alliance of vendors committed to ...
Is There a Data Layer Dilemma Between Containers & Big Data Applications?
According to Krishna Yeddanapudi, CTO & Founder, Robin Systems, when an enterprise uses containers to deploy existing applications, container technology fails to address how to manage data beyond the lifecycle of the ...