Microsoft Says Windows Will Run Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing
October 16, 2014
Grazed from Wired. Author: Ross Patton.
The next big thing in cloud computing doesn’t work with Microsoft’s Windows operating system. But Microsoft wants to change that. As part of its ongoing effort to embrace the latest tech trends, Microsoft says it’s building a version of Windows that will offer something akin to Docker—a technology originally created for the Linux operating system that’s all the rage among the companies and engineers developing the massive online services that have come to define the modern tech world.
To build a modern online service—such as a Google, a Facebook, a Twitter, or even the services running inside major financial institutions and other traditional businesses—you’re typically forced to run software across dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of computer servers, and Docker provides a way of doing this more easily and more efficiently…
It’s kinda like a shipping container for the digital universe, a tool that lets you neatly package software so you can readily move it from machine to machine and run more of it on each one. Google used a similar technology in building its online empire, the largest on the net…
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