Cloud Computing: 5 Reasons Why Docker Is A Billion Dollar Company

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Mike Kavis.

I have seen a lot of billion dollar valuations lately that have left me scratching my head. Many of those are in the B2C or social media space where companies are measured more on “eyeballs” (the number of active users) and less on things like revenue or business models.  So after Docker cracked the billion dollar club with a $95M round I decided to research exactly what it is about containers that could drive this type of valuation.

I have been covering Docker since the company, then called dotCloud, was toying around with the idea of pulling the Docker technology out of their core product and releasing it as an open source project. I saw the value of containers very early on. What I did not see coming was the vision that CTO Solomon Hykes laid out before our eyes at Docker Con in San Francisco last month…


Hykes proclaimed for the next 5 years, Docker was going to “build a software layer to make the Internet programmable.” Now that makes them much different than simply being a container company. In fact, Hykes pointed out that containers make up only about 5% of all Docker code. What is the other 95% you may ask? It is a collection of tools to make “IT Plumbing” simple and agile. The Docker toolbox has a wide variety of services in areas like orchestration, security, integration, scheduling, networking, storage, load balancing and much more…

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