The landscape of emerging container platforms

 

Many leading technology companies are involved in the container platform game and I'll group them into three broad categories to summarize where Docker Enterprise fits in. Specific vendor names are intentionally being withheld to avoid any emotional arguments or legal warfare, so just some high-level sifting and sorting for now:

  • Container platform categories emerge:
    • Virtualization vendor container platforms:
      • Summary: Large enterprise virtualization vendors are justifiably concerned about containers eroding their virtualization revenues. Indeed, running Docker can reduce, or in the case of Docker on bare metal can eliminate, the need for commercial virtualization products. Currently, Docker ...

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