The Open Container Initiative has just launched a new project as part of its mission to create open industry standards around software container formats and rules. The group said Monday it wants to ...

Red Hat, one of the early Linux pioneers and the first billion dollar open source company, is taking on another pioneering role in enterprise software by putting forth the idea of creating standards ...

The point of software containers is to provide a level of abstraction for bits of system and application programs so they can be run anywhere and maintained easily. Having multiple software container ...

CoreOS and the Open Container Initiative on Wednesday introduced image and runtime specifications largely based on Docker’s image format technology. However, OCI’s decision to model the standard on ...

I've written about containers before, and I've waxed lyrical about the multitude of benefits they bring to DevOps and cloud computing. And, I'm not the only one to appreciate them—although there are ...

The Open Container Initiative (OCI), the open-source community in charge of creating container standards, has announced the launch of the Distribution Specification project to standardize container ...

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are now working on a new standard for software containers with the help of the Linux Foundation. Other members of this coalition include Apcera, Cisco, EMC ...

A year or so ago a schism surfaced in the container ecosystem as CoreOS, once one of the most important Docker ecosystem players, announced is own container standard. At the time, CoreOS's CEO Alex ...

Shipping containers have long been used for freight transport, but in recent years, they’ve gained popularity as versatile ...

SGI is making some big changes to its ICE Cube family of containerized data centers, adding new models that will be able to house standard server racks for the first time. Its new Universal containers ...