A year after dipping its toes into the virtual application container waters, Microsoft has launched a new, curated Container Apps category in the Azure Marketplace. “This is a super simple ‘getting ...

Links with Docker, work on Google's Kubernetes project, and its own use of Drawbridge all underline Microsoft's enthusiasm for containers, according to new Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. But despite ...

Before year-end, Microsoft will make available to testers a preview version of a new Azure Container Service which will bring together Apache Mesos, Docker and Azure. The new Container Service is just ...

Microsoft's announcement back in October that it has partnered with Docker to enable Linux containers to run in Windows was an important step forward for enabling what promises to be the next wave in ...

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Back in June, Microsoft announced that it would bring support for managing Docker containers with the help of Google’s open-source Kubernetes tool to Azure and today, it is making good on this promise ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich appeared on stage today at the annual DockerCon conference in Seattle where he demonstrated the new Docker Datacenter (DDC) hybrid cloud development and management ...

As far as container orchestration goes, Kubernetes is quickly becoming the de facto standard, even as Docker Swarm and Mesos/Mesosphere DC/OS continue to find their own niches. For the longest time, ...

Virtual machines (VMs) are so firmly entrenched in the datacenter now that it's hard to remember a time when they weren't available. In fact, many younger IT pros may be only vaguely familiar with a ...

Microsoft and Docker announced today that the two companies have forged a partnership targeted at bringing support for containerized applications to Microsoft’s products. The partnership will be ...