containers

It’s DockerCon time again! We are excited to be the Gold Sponsor of the conference this year and looking forward to engaging with the community to accelerate the momentum in container adoption. If you are planning to attend this premier container community and industry conference, meet the Cisco team to learn how many organizations just like yours are deploying cloud-native applications and successfully modernizing traditional applications using Docker and Cisco products.

Less than two years ago, version 1 of Kubernetes was released. Today, there are over 1,100 contributors in the Kubernetes community, which has grown globally to the point that more than 60% of all contributions were made by people outside of Google.

Cisco and Docker are working with our ecosystem of strategic partners and the open source community to develop open and unique solutions. This alliance is another step in the strategy Cisco has been implementing for the past several years.

Together with Docker we are delivering unique and open solutions that help IT organizations rapidly and efficiently build, ship and run their containerized applications.

Last week at Cisco live! 2017 EMEA in the historic city of Berlin, we shared the early availability of Contiv 1.0 with almost 14,000 customers and partners. Today, we are excited to share the milestone with our broader community. Additionally, I am thrilled to report that Docker has certified<> Contiv as the very first certified container networking product, and it is now available in the Docker Store. Docker Certification Program recognizes products that excel in quality, collaborative support and compliance. Integration and testing by Docker to certify Contiv is yet another data-point to our customers about its production readiness which enables them to adopt containers with confidence and low risk.

Technology has always been an enabler in challenging the status-quo but turbulent market shifts have accelerated the journey to becoming digital businesses for traditional enterprises. There are many forcing functions but enterprises are striving for the intelligence that can be gained by ever increasing data proliferation to find better ways to engage with customers while thwarting the challenges posed by disruptive new entrants.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, container is a noun, and is defined as a receptacle for holding goods. Alternatively, it also means, a portable compartment in which freight is placed (as on a train or ship) for convenience of movement. In this blog, I’ll be talking about containers in the networking sense and the important […]

Cisco and Ansible teamed up for SDx Demo Friday. We showed how to manage large-scale networks using Cisco IOS XR application hosting infrastructure and Ansible version 2.2.

Companies are being disrupted by smaller, more agile companies that are able to leverage software and better react to the needs of their customers. Some recent examples include Amazon, Uber, Netflix, and AirBnB. To survive, your company must put software at the center of its business strategy. At the core of this software strategy are […]