Much has been made of the quickening pace of digital transformation globally, as IT departments feel increasingly empowered to boost organisational agility, efficiency, and innovation. Yet less has ...

Open-source communities seem to do a better job than standards committees in creating new software that sticks to a common plan. In the latest example, The Linux Foundation, is once more fostering a ...

Linux Containers (LXC) are a lightweight virtualization technology that allows you to run multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single host. Unlike traditional virtual machines, containers ...

“We are using containers” is the battle cry of enterprises looking to get to the ultimate in performance, scalability, and portability—but you don’t always get what you expect “We are using containers ...

The next iteration for cloud computing, Cloud 2.0, promises to deliver a flexible IT architecture where applications are built out of microservices running in containers, all orchestrated through ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, examines the returns and efficiencies businesses are seeing with serverless computing, how to create a serverless architecture, ...

As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards a cloud-native architecture, one of the biggest challenges they face is what to do with their core business applications that ...

Hang around enterprise computing types long enough, and you’ll wind up talking about “the stack” at some point. It’s a term used to refer to the complicated layers of software that run in modern data ...

New best practices support defining cloud solutions from the outside in to take advantage of the strengths of cloud computing. It’s the last three weeks of a 22-month cloud architecture project. You ...

Docker is the hottest new idea in the world of cloud computing, a technology embraced by Silicon Valley's elite engineers and backed the industry's biggest names, including Google, Amazon, and ...