Docker containers are clearly transforming nearly every aspect of IT these days – and networking is no exception. At the DockerCon 2016 conference last week, Docker Inc. and many of its partners took ...

Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu's founder, explained that "one of the real frustrations of the container generation... is a shortage of easily accessible IP addresses." Shuttleworth continued, ...

News this morning that Docker, the home of the anonymously-named container infrastructure initiative, has acquired an early stage startup, SocketPlane. SocketPlane's small six-person tea will be ...

Hyperconverged infrastructure startup Diamanti Inc. is bidding to solve the challenges of balancing networking and storage requirements for application containers with the launch today of a dedicated ...

Networking has always been one of the most persistent headaches when working with containers. Even Kubernetes—fast becoming the technology of choice for container orchestration—has limitations in how ...

Docker networking is a fundamental aspect of container management, playing a crucial role in allowing seamless communication between containers and external networks. This comprehensive guide delves ...

VMware today released a new version of its NSX virtual networking software that aims to make it easier to manage network requirements of cloud-native and application-container-based applications. The ...

Cilium, an open-source technology used to manage software containers’ network traffic, today graduated from the CNCF’s incubation program. The CNCF, or Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is a Linux ...

Containers can be considered the third wave in service provision after physical boxes (the first wave) and virtual machines (the second wave). Instead of working with complete servers (hardware or ...

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 ...

One of the shifts occurring in IT under the banner of digital transformation is the breaking down of large, monolithic applications into microservices—small, discrete units of functionality—that run ...