In an announcement Wednesday morning, Docker Inc. — the company behind one of the most rapidly adopted software infrastructure components in history — said it will let go of a critical software component, called containerd (pronounced “container-dee”), donating it to an open source foundation yet to be determined. “Containerd is […]

The real meaning of containerization in the data center — the trend that caught fire three years ago with the arrival of Docker — is the ability to deploy parts of workloads across a variety of servers, and scale those deployments up or down as necessary.  This is different from […]