I just returned from two days in Seattle at DockerCon 2016. What I learned at DockerCon this year can be summed up in four categories: Container adoption is on the rise Docker is winning by making containers simpler Docker is forging a path to win enterprise workloads The battle for orchestration just became more interesting
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Have You Heard about Unikernels?
Have you heard about Uninkernels? Uninkernels or Cloud Operating Systems as it has also been called is a specialized lightweight operating system which is intended to be used within a virtual machine. These Unikernels have the potential to become the core of a new form of cloud computing where a single hypervisor instance can support hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines. Uninkernels can accomplish this potential by rethinking how we populate the cloud infrastructure by utilizing specialized, single-address-space virtual machine images constructed by using a virtual library operating system.
AWS Speaks a Different Language
I spent the last couple of weeks preparing for the Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. Coming from a long history of on-premises data centers, I find the messaging and training from AWS to be totally different. In VMware training, we spent a lot of time looking at designing and setting up networking and …
March to the Cloud—Or Not?
Cloud this, cloud that…it seems that the cloud will heal all your woes. But will it really? Some vendors are using the term “cloud” to signify various services, such Software as a Service (SaaS), private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, and more. With so many clouds, how can you be sure that you’re getting the …
Web UIs vs. APIs
There has been a rash of new web UIs based on HTML5. Is a web UI the same as an API? Can we assume that a new HTML5 web UI is making use of an API on the back end, creating a new API, or is it using an older API? Presenting a web-scale UI …
Data Sovereignty, Data Ownership
Data drives the modern business. It drives the modern development process. And it drives IT operations analytics in the NOC and the SOC. This raises the questions “Who owns all this data? Do data sovereignty rules apply?” Data is everywhere, and it is used in many ways. In many cases, the same data is used in multiple …