Featured Sessions at Container World 2018
In this edition of container world, you will get sessions from various categories like orchestration, storage, security, devops. Here is the list of most of the featured sessions at Container World 2018
Keynotes at Container World 2018
There are 6 keynotes scheduled at Container World 2018. Topics covered in these keynotes are cloud native technologies, serverless computing, containers and orchestrators, etc.
OpenStack Launches Open Source Kata Containers
The OpenStack Foundation today announces a new open source project, Kata Containers™, which aims to unite the security advantages of virtual machines (VMs) with the speed and manageability of container technologies. The project is designed to be hardware agnostic and compatible with the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification, as well as the container runtime interface (CRI) for Kubernetes. Kata Containers offers the ability to run container management tools directly on bare metal without sacrificing workload isolation. When compared to running containers on virtualized infrastructure (which is the standard practice today), benefits include increased performance, faster boot time and cost efficiencies.
Aqua Closes $25M Funding Round for Container Security
Container security startup Aqua raised $25 million in Series B funding. Aqua CEO Dror Davidoff called it the “largest funding round to date” in the container security space, and it brings total investments in Aqua to $38.5 million.
Lightspeed Venture Partners led the latest round, with existing investors Microsoft Ventures, TLV Ventures, and Shlomo Kramer also participating. Microsoft led the Series A round in September 2016, which secured $9 million.
Docker announces the appointment of Robert Enslin to its Board of Directors
Docker today announced that Rob Enslin, president of SAP’s Cloud Business Group and Member of the SAP Executive Board, has been appointed to Docker’s Board of Directors. Enslin brings over 25 years of experience in building, scaling and running a global enterprise software company. As a member of Docker’s board, Enslin will help guide and accelerate Docker’s business growth as it delivers a new generation of container platform tools and technologies to enterprise customers.
Docker Reportedly Set to Snare $75 Million in New Funding
Press release published by: https://www.sdxcentral.com/ Written by: Dan Meyer Source URL: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/docker-reportedly-set-to-snare-75-million-in-new-funding/2017/08/ Docker Inc. is reportedly set to bolster its finances to the tune of $75 million. Bloomberg…
Google, Alibaba, IBM Rising in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 2017
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure dominate the infrastructure-as-a-service field, according to Gartner, which released its IaaS Magic Quadrant.
CoreOS Adds Mozilla Co-Founder Mitchell Baker to its Board
CoreOS added Mozilla Foundation Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker to its boards of directors as its first independent board member.
CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi said the appointment is an important step in the company’s ongoing push behind open source projects and in continuing support of the open source community.
Rancher Labs Partners with Docker to Embed Docker Enterprise Edition into Rancher Platform
Rancher Labs, a provider of container management software, today announced it has partnered with Docker to integrate Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) Basic into its Rancher container management platform. Users will be able to access the usability, security and portability benefits of Docker EE through the easy to use Rancher interface. Docker provides a powerful combination of runtime with integrated orchestration, security and networking capabilities. Rancher provides users with easy access to these Docker EE capabilities, as well as the Rancher platform’s rich set of infrastructure services and other container orchestration tools. Users will now be able to purchase support for both Docker Enterprise Edition and the Rancher container management platform directly from Rancher Labs.
Docker Partners with Cisco, HPE, Avanade and Microsoft to Make Legacy Apps Ready for Hybrid Clouds in Five Days
Docker today announced a new Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) Program that enables enterprise IT organizations to modernize legacy applications, transforming them in hybrid cloud deployments while simultaneously realizing substantial savings in their total cost of ownership (TCO). In partnership with Avanade, Cisco, HPE and Microsoft, Docker is helping organizations like Northern Trust, a leading financial services firm, to make existing applications highly secure; more efficient to maintain, deploy and run; and portable to any infrastructure – cloud, hybrid and on-premises.