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 ...

The Open Container Initiative (OCI) released the first versions of its open source container runtime and image format specification. OCI, which runs inside the Linux Foundation, said the ...

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 ...

From Amazon to VMware, via Docker, Google, Microsoft and Red Hat, more than 20 of the biggest names in technology have piled in behind a major new non-profit initiative to establish container ...

At CoreOS Fest, the community event for distributed systems and application containers in San Francisco, Red Hat, Google, VMware and Apcera announced support for the App Container spec (appc). Appc is ...

Two years ago, the CoreOS distribution of Linux was created by two guys literally working out of a garage who wanted to make software containers the key feature, rather than an add-on, to a Linux ...