In the world of software application development, container technology is big news. But what is it, why is it a useful approach and is it safe? In straightforward terms, a container is a specific ...

Containers are useful because they provide a lightweight, isolated environment for applications or other software. They run on top of a host computer, but are independent. This is similar to a ...

Containers bundle an entire runtime environment – including an application and all of the software needed to run it – in a single package that works on any operating system.

Two years ago, the CoreOS distribution of Linux was created by two guys literally working out of a garage who wanted to make software containers the key feature, rather than an add-on, to a Linux ...

Tech giants, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, have formed a new organization to create an open source standard for software containers.

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.

We are likely to see more software-based containers being used in the future. Businesses tend to only care about the application and the business value that application provides.

Containers are revolutionising software deployment, but security must not be an after thought According to developers, containers are cool - around 26 per cent of companies are already running ...

Software container supply chain security firm Slim AI Inc. today announced a revamped version of its Continuous Software Supply Chain Security Solution that it says companies can use to find and ...

We look at what flash array, hyper-converged infrastructure and software-defined storage makers are doing to provide persistent storage for container-based deployments.