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Containers: Is it Madness or a Stroke of Vision at this Point to Leave Behind the World of Installers?

By Dick Weisinger

Applications are migrating to containers. One vendor example is Alfresco, maker of ECM and Digital Transformation software.  Alfresco’s next product release is currently planned to be only on Docker containers. Alfresco’s approach could be early-adopter madness or visionary, a sort…

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August 28th, 2018
Category: Cloud Computing, Containers
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Containers/Docker Swarm: Docker’s Newest Release Builds in Container Cluster Management

By Dick Weisinger

The newest release of Docker includes a built-in orchestration capability that lets containers self-discover other containers in an ad hoc way.  Orchestration of containers has been a complex task that required specialized system administration skills.  The new release builds into…

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July 29th, 2016
Category: Containers
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Containers: Great Idea, but Large-Scale Management of a Container Environment is Complex

By Dick Weisinger

Docker containers have become a popular way to streamline the environment that a self-contained application can run in.  (Docker currently has 94 percent of the container market.) Container technology is hot and it is being used increasingly by  enterprises to…

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July 21st, 2016
Category: Cloud Computing, Containers
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Enterprise Software: Containers Expected to Sweep Enterprise IT in 2016

By Dick Weisinger

Containers topped the lists for one of the hottest IT technologies for 2016. Serdar Yegulalp of Infoworld, for example, wrote that “with nearly every major IT product either adopting them outright or building in support for them, containers are guaranteed…

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March 15th, 2016
Category: Containers, Enterprise Software
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Containers: Enabling Build-Once-Run-Anywhere Applications

By Dick Weisinger

Containers are stand-alone lightweight packages that provide a isolated environment for an application and its configuration complete with all needed dependencies and libraries.  Containers are easily provisioned in real-time and typically use far fewer resources than virtual machines. Robert Stroud, Forrester…

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January 28th, 2016
Category: Containers
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