With cloud, two of the latest have been containers and serverless computing. Both take the established concept behind virtual machines (VMs) to the next level, promising greater efficiencies and lower ...

A deep dive into securing containerized environments and understanding how they present unique security challenges. Containers are self-contained pods representing complete, portable application ...

SANTA FE, NM - JULY 4, 2018: A tub filled with ice and plastic bottles of Dasani purified bottled water being given away at a Fourth of July holiday event in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dasani is a brand of ...

As human beings we like analogies. Admittedly, we sometimes overextend them and end up obfuscating rather than clarifying. Such is arguably the case with cloud computing and the electric grid. However ...

Urs Hölzle, senior vice president of technical infrastructure at Google, believes that open source and container technology will drive the future of cloud infrastructure. In a keynote today at Interop ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. While it’s well known that cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally changing ...

A new survey shows what most of us already know: Cloud solutions are focused on serverless and containers. Know the good and bad of this popular combo. Credit: Ian Noble; Modified by IDG Comm. A new ...

Ever feel that cloud computing sounds like a pile of acronyms, hidden fees and choices you are somehow meant to understand straight away? Many readers worry about cost, security and where their data ...

We tend to believe that state-of-the-art technology, in particular the technology for essential services, is built upon a series of cumulative advancements. In other words, progress is linear and we ...