Docker Inc. acquired networking startup SocketPlane today, indicating that Docker wants to accelerate the development of networking APIs and software that will help network managers operationalize production Linux containers. Docker is a suite of open source software that helps developers and admins manage and scale their use of Linux containers. Containers offer the same resource [...]
Docker acquires SocketPlane for multi-host container networking
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Application programming interface
cloud computing
IT Management
Cloud Foundry
Featured
Free and open source software
Linux
Linux containers
LXC
MySQL
Network Management
Open source
Open source software
Operating system
Shamus McGillicuddy
APIs
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A new analyst on the block
Hello world. I am the new senior analyst for the network management research practice at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). My name may be familiar to some of you. Prior to 2015, I led the news team for TechTarget’s networking and telecommunications publications for seven years. Now I’m making the transition from journalist to analyst. The [...]
The State of the Software Defined Data Center
Of course, I always encourage practitioners to carefully study the full EMA research report on the “Obstacles and Priorities on the Journey to the Software-Defined Data Center” or at least read the research study summary or at the very least join the EMA SDDC Research webinar on February 18, but I still want to briefly summarize the key findings here.
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Business
Cloud Computing
Data center
IT service management
SDDC
Network Management
Systems Management
Storage Automation
Jim Frey
Software Defined Data Center
Storage Virtualization
Cloud Administration
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