Container company Docker has acquired startup SocketPlane and its six-strong team to help add standard networking interfaces to Docker for increased portability of multi-container distributed apps.

News this morning that Docker, the home of the anonymously-named container infrastructure initiative, has acquired an early stage startup, SocketPlane. SocketPlane's small six-person tea will be ...

With Docker 1.5 freshly released, the creators of the software-containerization system are looking to fix its networking issues, which have long been a source of pain and criticism. The long-term ...

Docker, the startup that has popularized open-source technology for packaging up applications into containers, is introducing new software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities as a result of its ...

To put it simply, Pi-hole is an open-source DNS sinkhole —a simple, network-level ad and tracker blocker that serves as the ...

Despite all the hype about containers, the application packaging technology is still evolving, especially as relates to networking. In the past year though there have been significant advancements to ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Docker, Inc., the corporate sponsor of the open platform for distributed applications, today announced the acquisition of software-defined networking (SDN) startup ...

It’s fascinating to watch, seemingly overnight, a vibrant ecosystem being built up around Docker. While many rightly point out that Docker didn’t invent containers, it’s fair to say that the project ...

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Flocker promises to address issues of data portability and migration between systems, but the project is still in its early stages For all of Docker’s capabilities, it can’t pull yet off a host of ...