IBM expands partner ecosystem for VMware users moving to the cloud

More and more organizations are moving their enterprise workloads to the cloud, but they don’t just get there through magic. Often, there’s a lot of expense and risk involved. Occasionally, entire IT operations have to be overhauled. It’s a big challenge. To face down that challenge, IBM and VMware joined forces earlier this year to [&;]
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With new data center, growth accelerates for Korea cloud ecosystem

Korea’s public cloud sector is growing exponentially. According to IDC research, public cloud revenue in the country is expected to increase from $445 million last year to around $1 billion in 2019. All that growth is going to mean increased demand for infrastructure. That’s a big reason why IBM is teaming with SK Holdings to [&;]
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The Dockerizing of VMworld 2016

Containers have landed&;in VMs in the enterprise.

Docker’s adoption continues to grow in the enterprise. There have been over 5 billion images pulls, and 60% of users are running Docker in production environments. Today Docker is run everywhere &; from development to production; in the cloud, on virtual machines and bare-metal servers. Enterprise application teams around the world are seeing the value of Docker containers and how they help them containerize their existing applications to save money and better utilize infrastructure resources.
To get the latest with Docker and vms stop by our Docker booth at VMworld. Containers and vms are different but are complementary when it comes to application deployment. With their ability to optimize infrastructure resources, accelerate deployment and provide additional security, Docker containers bring some serious benefits to virtualized workloads within enterprise environments. Additionally, a Dockerized workload gains portability as containers move from VMs or bare metal systems, on prem or in the cloud. That same platform serves as the foundation for your new microservices applications as well.
 
The Docker booth experience you won’t want to miss:
Live demos &8211; Three live  demos will be featured in the booth, including:

Deploy your very first Docker container with a quick hands on tutorial
The latest Docker 1.12 with built in orchestration for intelligent host clustering and application scheduling
Witness how Docker delivers security and manageability at scale for the Enterprise with Docker Datacenter

Onsite Docker wizards from the Docker team to answer questions and provide 1:1 whiteboard session
Docker T-shirts and Swag (while supplies last) &8211; We think Moby Dock is pretty cool and have some great new t-shirts to share with you&8230;but you’re going to have to take a !
To get you prepped for Docker at VMworld 2016 we’ve included a reading list of three blogs. These will teach you about the technical differences between containers and VMs, and how you can leverage Docker containers and vms together to achieve better resource utilization.
Here are the reads:

Containers are not VMs &8211; This blog explains the technical difference between Docker containers and virtual machines
Containers and VMs Together &8211; This blog explains how containers and VMs can be used together to help you optimize your infrastructure.
Containerization for the Virtualization Admin &8211; This blog includes a replay of the Containers for The Virtualization Admin webinar.

Take a look at the image below. On the left side you’ll see containerization without vms. Notice how the Docker engine installs directly on the host OS, and how the three containerized applications running are completely isolated. On the right side you’ll see containerization combined with virtualization. Multiple docker containers can run within VMs. This enables you to better utilize your infrastructure resources.

But it’s more than just Docker containers…
Enterprise needs include security, scalability and application management. To meet these needs our customers have turned to Docker Datacenter, our commercial platform for Containers as a Service. This integrated platform is designed to take containerized applications from development to production.  With everything from built in cluster/application orchestration to integrated end-to-end security, Docker Datacenter provides the enterprise grade controls IT ops need without sacrificing the agility and portability that the business requires in order to outpace competition.
We’re looking forward to seeing you at VMworld 2016 at booth 2362!
 
Additional Docker Resources

Watch How ADP uses Docker Datacenter
Download the Docker Datacenter Datasheet
Learn more about Infrastructure Optimization with Docker

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Enabling hybrid cloud apps and multi-speed IT

With the evolution of the cloud, startups seem to have it easy. They come up with an idea, implement it on the cloud, and deploy continuously right away. For companies that have developed software for years, either for internal use or to sell, things are more complicated. Those companies invested in their applications and will [&;]
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A brief history of cloud computing

One of the first questions asked with the introduction of a new technology is: “When was it invented?” Other questions like “When was it first mentioned?” and “What are the prospects for its future?” are also common. When we think of , we think of situations, products and ideas that started in the 21st [&;]
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AWS, VMware, OpenStack … what’s your opinion?

The post AWS, VMware, OpenStack &; what&;s your opinion? appeared first on Mirantis | The Pure Play OpenStack Company.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMWare and OpenStack are all popular tools IT/OPS practitioners and developers use on their cloud journey. While vendors have many opinions on how these technologies stack up against each other, there is a shortage of data on how users perceive these technologies. In order to better understand the different distinct advantages and drawbacks of prevalent cloud-servicing technologies, Mirantis has sponsored two surveys for those familiar with AWS or VMWare and OpenStack. The survey is about 5 minutes long and our survey results will be published so the entire community can benefit.
Survey Links:

AWS/OpenStackSurvey
VMWare/OpenStack Survey

We would appreciate it if you could take the time to fill out the relevant survey according to your respective background.
James Chung is a summer intern for Mirantis Inc. and is currently a student at Yale University.
Photo by BillsoPHOTO (https://www.flickr.com/photos/billsophoto/4175299981)
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A practical guide to platform as a service: PaaS benefits and characteristics

One of the major benefits of platform as a service PaaS is its ability to improve a developer’s productivity. PaaS provides direct support for business agility by enabling rapid development with faster and more frequent delivery of functionality. It does this through continuous integration techniques and automatic application deployment. PaaS also enables developers to realize [&;]
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Docker Weekly Roundup

 
This week, we announced the launch of the Scholarship program, got to know our featured Docker Captains, and aired the first episode. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of August 14, 2016:

 

Docker Scholarship Program: Docker announced the launch of a new scholarship program, in partnership with Reactor Core, a network of coding schools. The application period is open and interested applicants can apply here.
Docker Captains: meet and greet with our three selected August Captains. Learn how they got started, what they love most about Docker, and why Docker.
Dockercast Episode 1: this podcast guest stars Ilan Rabinovitch the Director of Technical Community at Datadog and discusses Monitoring-as-a-Service, Docker metadata and Docker container monitoring information.
Docker on Raspberry Pi: an informative guide to getting started with Docker on Raspberry Pi by Docker Captain Alex Ellis
Powershell with Docker: introduction to building your own custom Docker container image, that runs PowerShell natively on Ubuntu Linux by Larry Larsen & Docker Captain Trevor Sullivan at Channel 9

5 docker stories you dan&;t want to miss this week cc @chanwit @vfarcic @idomyowntricks @pcgeek86&;Click To Tweet

 
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Your Docker Agenda for LinuxCon North America

Hey Dockers! We’re excited to be back at this year in Toronto and hope you are, too! We’ve a got a round-up of many of our awesome speakers, as well as a booth. Come visit us in between the sessions at booth inside “The Hub”. You may even be able to score yourself some Docker swag.
 

Monday:
11:45am &; Curious about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Open Container Initiative, Cloud Foundry Foundation and their role in the cloud ecosystem? Docker’s Stephen Walli joins other panelists to deliver So CFF, CNCF, and OCI Walk into a Room (or ‘Demystifying the Confusion: CFF, CNCF, OCI).
3:00pm &8211; Docker Captain Phil Estes will describe and demonstrate the use of the new schema format’s capabilities for multiple platform-specific image references in his More than x86_64: Docker Images for Multi-Platform session.
4:20 pm &8211; Join Docker’s Mike Coleman for Containers, Physical, and virtual, Oh My! insight on what points businesses need to consider as they decide how and where to run their Docker containers.
 
Tuesday:
2:00pm &8211; Docker Captain Phil Estes is back with Runc: The Little (Container) Engine that Could where he will 1) give an overview of runc, 2) explain how to take existing Docker Containers and migrate them to runc bundles and 3) demonstrate how modern container isolation features can be exploited via runc container configuration.
2:00pm &8211; Docker’s Amir Chaudhry will explain Unikernels: When you Should and When you Shouldn’t to help you weigh the pros and cons of using unikernels and help you decide when when it may be appropriate to consider a library OS for your next project.
 
Wednesday:
10:55am &8211; Mike Goelzer and Victor Vieux rom Docker&;s Core team will walk the audience through the new orchestration features added to Docker this summer: secure clustering, declarative service specification, load balancing, service discovery and more in their session From 1 to N Docker Hosts: Getting Started with Docker Clustering.
11:55am &8211; Kendrick Coleman, Docker Captain will talk about Highly Available & Distributed Containers. Learn how to deploy stateless and stateful services all completely load balanced in a Docker 1.12 swarm cluster
2:15pm &8211; Docker’s Paul Novarese will dive into User namespace and Seccomp support in Docker Engine, covering new features that respectively allow users to run Containers as without elevated privileges and provide a method of containment for containers.
4:35pm &8211; Docker’s Riyaz Faizullabhoy will deliver When The Going Gets Tough, Get TUF Going!
The Update Framework (TUF) helps developers secure new or existing software update systems. Join Docker’s Riyaz Faizullabhoy’s When The Going Gets Tough, Get TUF Going! to learn the attacks that TUF protects against and how it actually does so in a usable manner.
 
Thursday:
9:00am &8211; In this all day tutorial, Jerome Petazzoni will teach attendees how to Orchestrate Containers in Production at Scale with Docker Swarm.
In addition to our Docker talks, we have two amazing Docker Toronto meetups lined up just for you. Check them out:
On August 23rd, we’re joining together with Toronto NATS Cloud Native and IoT Group at Lighthouse Labs to feature Diogo Monteiro on “Implementing Microservices with NATS” and our own Riyaz Faizullabhoy on “Docker Security and the Update Framework (TUF)”.
Come August 24th we’ll be at the Mozilla Community Space. Gou Rao, CTO and co-founder of Portworx will be touching on “Radically Simple Storage for Docker”, while Drew Erny from Docker will discuss “High Availability using Docker Swarm”.

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Workday taps IBM SoftLayer for development and testing

Workday, which specializes in human resources and finance software, announced this week that it has signed a 7-year agreement with IBM to use the SoftLayer cloud platform for developing and testing new products. Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri said the platform will enable his company to scale development and testing faster. Previously, the firm used its [&;]
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