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Last week saw 20,000 or so IT administrators and CIOs descend on San Francisco for virtualization-king VMware’s annual VMworld conference (disclosure, VMware covered my travel and expenses to attend the event). The show saw many announcements but I want to delve into a couple in particular – the news that […]

Docker: the open source initiative that takes Linux applications and wraps them up in a nice tight package that means that those applications can be scaled and deployed quickly and easily. Azure: Microsoft’s attempt to deliver a compelling cloud computing infrastructure platform to the world. At first glance one would […]

It was only a matter of time until VMware kind of virtualization realized that Docker, the containerization initiative that is setting the world on fire, constitutes both a very real risk and a massive opportunity. Despite the hyperbole suggesting that Containers will disrupt virtualization in the near future, virtualization remains an […]

Docker. The open source initiative that is making investors salivate at the potential returns. Docker is being heralded as the movement that will finally kill virtualization. Of course it’s not as simple as that and virtualization (along with the company that popularized it, VMware) will continue to exist for the […]

Citing an unnamed source this morning GigaOm suggests that white-hot vendor Docker, the creator of the Docker open source container project, is raising between $40 million and $75 million at a huge $400 million valuation. To date the company, which was…

Anyone who has only recently come across the Docker open source initiative and the company that instigated it (confusingly also called Docker) would be surprised to hear that before Docker the product, Docker the company did something else. Yes, for th…

Docker is a copybook case study of an open source project done right. The initiative took an existing technology and approach (Linux containers), modernized it for today’s applications and put it out into the community. And my how the community responded, support for Docker is incredible – large vendors and small […]

There’s a funny thing with community-driven open source initiatives. They seem to generate lots of angst within the community. One only needs to look at OpenStack, the cloud initiative started by NASA and Rackspace as an example. While OpenStack has gained serious industry buy-in, it has also gained a huge […]

Red Hat is today deepening its relationship with, and support of, Docker, the initiative that is taking Linux containers and re-popularizing them for the cloud age. Alongside its support of the initiative, Red Hat is also putting its money where its mouth is – Docker, the commercial entity behind the Docker.io […]