The last few months saw the emegence of industry standards on containers and container orchestration, leading to initiatives like Open Container Project and Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Red Hat’s OpenShift became the first application deployment platform on top of Docker based Containers and Kubernetes. There are many other vendors planning to offer platforms using Docker […]
Beyond Container Orchestration | PaaS Is Full Choreography
When I talk to end users in my role as industry observer, I see confusion between container orchestration and PaaS. Some people seem to wrongly assume that the only thing PaaS does is orchestrate application containers. While PaaS takes care of container orchestration, it goes way beyond that to offer a developer interface similar to […]
Microservices, Containers, PaaS and DevOps
Microservices is fast emerging as a modern way for building applications inside many organizations. It is a trend that had its initial roots in startups wanting to avoid the “legacy quagmire” that has negatively impacted many large enterprises to this today. Recently, it has started gaining more steam as organizations are realizing that reimagining their IT with […]
Infrastructure for Modern Enterprises
As I go about talking about my Modern Enterprise theme, people ask me about the role of infrastructure in the Modern Enterprise platform. Industry confusion about the role of PaaS Vs IaaS (even though PaaS is a distinct layer on top of IaaS) is one of the biggest reasons for this. Today I’m adding my […]
Containers Are the Foundation of Modern Enterprises
Last week we had the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco where the talk of the town (ok, at least near Moscone Center) was containers. The clear message from the summit was that containers are key to future enterprise IT strategies. I am a big proponent of Docker since it was a new project released […]
Docker Ecosystem Mapped out
Docker, the open source Linux containers, is fast becoming an industry standard due to the mindshare it has been receiving in the industry. From developers using Docker for their app dev needs to startups and bigger companies investing resources on the project, it is fast emerging as a standard for application containers. A vibrant ecosystem […]
PaaS Standards: Standardize on what?
Introduction Standardization is a natural process in any technological evolution and it helps enterprises in terms of quality control, repeatability, interoperability, etc.. As we move into the cloud based world, with large scale automation, standardization becomes even more important. Typically, open source makes standardization much easier. However, there is a strong belief in the industry […]
The Importance Of Red Hat – Docker Partnership
Today Red Hat and dotCloud announced a technical partnership around Docker, the next-gen application container (disclosure: I am employed by Red Hat and was responsible for the initial meeting between these two companies to explore the technical collaboration. However, this is my personal opinion as an industry observer and it is not representative of Red […]