Shipping containers revolutionized the way freight is moved around the world. By making it possible to pack all manner of cargo in a uniform way, shipping companies save money and streamline the ...

Whether you have considered trying to secure an application by putting it into a “sandbox” or wondered how a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider keeps your application and data isolated from other ...

As government IT leaders modernize and expand the way their agencies use applications for mission critical services, software container technology can help bring agility to a continuously growing ...

Kubernetes and software containers are exceptions to this rule. Google was an early innovator for Linux-based software containers and much of the work that was done to foster Linux containers (LXC) in ...

Software container adoption is hot as users increase their deployments of the technology for perceived advantages that include squeezing more performance out of their data center resources and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. In the world of software application development, container ...

Containers are not a new phenomenon, but it wasn’t until recently they were made easily accessible to developers. In 2013, the software container platform provider Docker announced a framework that ...

In software-defined data centers, software networking can help container environments talk to each other and maintain network policies without needing admins to respond to each change. With increasing ...

At the DockerCon 2015 today, Portworx “emerged from stealth mode” to reveal that it has developed storage software that brings native support for block-level storage to containers such as Docker.