Cloud Computing: Containers – replacements or alternatives to virtual machines?
June 7, 2014
Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Nick Hardiman.
This year container-based technology announcements went crazy. This isn’t the craze for packing data centers into shipping containers (that’s so last decade) — this is the Linux OS container craze. What’s a container, and why is everyone so excited?
A brief history of fitting IT supply to demand
Ten years ago computing capacity requirements were calculated for the next business year. The process of estimating what would happen in the next year was practically impossible, but something had to be done (and is still being done in the enterprise)…
Five years ago you could at least figure out the requirements to run a distributed application and rent virtual machines (VMs) and object storage from a cloud provider, on-demand. It was a new way of working. Cloud computing gave us a solution to an impossible problem. It didn’t matter if it wasn’t well understood, or even very good — it was something, where before there was nothing…
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