Red Hat Touts Virtual Containers as Next Advance in Cloud Computing

Grazed from CloudWiser.  Author: Eric Lundquist.

Red Hat says virtual containers will be an efficient way to distribute applications across the hybrid cloud infrastructures that are favored by enterprises.  The development of shipping containers enabled the global trade we now enjoy and made shipping your products around the world a simple transaction. As the opening paragraph in a book chronicling the rise of shipping containers (The Box) from the origins in 1956 onward stated, “The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy.”

Now containers, albeit in a digital form, are being touted as the next big thing in cloud computing.  At the Red Hat Conference April 14-17 in San Francisco (which I did not attend but did watch the keynotes on YouTube), containers were a big piece of the news. “This [container technology] is one of the things that is really going to drive the future,” said Red Hat President of Products and Technologies Paul Cormier in his keynote address…


In an era where applications will increasingly be sharing physical and virtual machines as well as private and public clouds, container technology—which allows for lightweight application transport between those myriad platforms—may be the only way to go.  The idea of virtual containers has been around for a while. Although I’m not sure if they go all the way back to those 1956 physical containers, Sun was talking about Solaris containers in the early 2000s.

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