IBM, Docker Accelerate Big Data Cloud App Deployments
December 9, 2014
Grazed from InformationManagement. Author: Editorial Staff.
IBM Corp. and Docker Inc. are partnering to help businesses build and deploy applications more rapidly. The relationship could help corporate IT departments to more rapidly roll out Big Data applications both on-premises and in public clouds.
"Enterprises can use the combination of IBM and Docker to create and manage a new generation of portable distributed applications that are rapidly composed of discrete interoperable Docker containers, have a dynamic lifecycle, and can scale to run in concert anywhere from the developer’s laptop to hundreds of hosts in the cloud," according to a prepared statement from both companies…
Docker, based on open source, is a so-called "container" technology that makes applications more portable from one server or cloud to another. In recent months, Docker has emerged as one of the most promising technologies of 2014 — and most pundits expect it to go mainstream in 2015…
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