Sean Michael Kerner

At DockerCon 16, approximately 4,000 attendees descended on the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle from June 19 to 21 to learn about and experience the phenomenon that is the Docker container ecosystem. The big news of the event came on the first day of the conference with the announcement of Docker 1.12 and its […]

In the span of three and half years, Gus Robertson has helped lead NGINX to have one of the most deployed technologies on the planet. NGINX’s primary technology is its namesake open-source Web server platform and the commercially supported NGINX Plus platform that first debuted in 2013. Now NGINX is moving to a new stage […]

Red Hat is expanding its open-source Ansible platform with a new module called Ansible Container that enables organizations to build and deploy containers. Ansible is a DevOps automation platform technology that Red Hat acquired in October 2015. A popular option of many Docker container developers today is to use the Docker Compose tool to build […]

SEATTLE—At the DockerCon 16 conference here, more than 4,000 attendees have gathered to learn and talk about Docker containers. At the core of the event is Docker Inc., which has grown as Docker container use has expanded in the market, and helping to lead the way is Docker Inc. CEO Ben Golub. In a video […]

SEATTLE—As the DockerCon container conference gets under way here, VMware is introducing multiple technologies in a continuing attempt to advance its container efforts. VMware is releasing version 1.0 of its Photon container operating system, first announced in April 2015. For Photon OS, the 1.0 milestone signifies that the stability, performance, maintenance and functionality of Photon […]

As the DockerCon 16 conference gets underway June 20 in Seattle, users and advocates of the open-source container technology are being bolstered by multiple reports that imply adoption is growing, although there are some challenges to adoption. Container storage vendor ClusterHQ issued a study on June 16 that included responses from 310 IT decision-makers as […]

Breaches From Malicious or Criminal Attacks More Costly Than Average Data breaches that resulted from malicious or criminal attacks were more expensive than average and took a long time to detect and contain, a new study finds. Average Cost Per Breached Record Is Highest in the U.S. Globally, the average cost per lost or stolen […]

SEATTLE—Docker today at DockerCon 2016 here officially announced Docker Engine 1.12, which directly integrates container orchestration technology that previously had required separate technology to implement. Docker first announced the Swarm orchestration technology back in February 2015 as a stand-alone project, requiring separate installation. “Prior to Docker 1.12, users would have had to download Docker Swarm, […]

Google has had a security rewards program in place since 2010, but it wasn’t until last June that it added Android to the eligible products list. A year later, Google is reporting that it has received more than 250 vulnerability reports for Android and has paid out $550,000 to 82 security researchers for their efforts. […]

Bracket Computing is expanding its security platform with new services designed to help organizations easily encrypt data and segment networks. Bracket Computing first emerged from stealth mode in October 2014 with its core Computing Cell technology for security virtualization and then expanded the effort in May 2015. Now, the company is taking its technology a […]

Providing the right type of security reports to company leaders and boards of directors is crucial and could also affect IT executives’ careers, according to new research sponsored by Bay Dynamics. More than half (59 percent) of board members indicated that one or more security executives would lose their jobs as a result of not […]

On June 14, the Democratic National Committee reported that it was the victim of a data breach, allegedly by attackers from Russia. On June 15, a hacker identified only as “Guccifer” emerged, claiming responsibility for the breach, denying any connection to Russia and refuting security firm CrowdStrike’s research on the attack. For CrowdStrike’s part, co-founder […]