Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that's already one of the hottest new ideas in the world of cloud computing. This technology is called Docker. You can think ...

Google has adopted for use in its cloud a streamlined version of the Canonical Ubuntu Linux distribution tweaked to run Docker and other containers. Ubuntu Core was designed to provide only the ...

Google today announced the beta launch of the Google Container Registry for its Cloud Platform. This new service allows developers to host, share and manage their private Docker container repositories ...

Google today announced the alpha launch of Google Container Engine, a new managed service for building and running Docker container-based applications on its cloud platform. Docker is probably the ...

When Google announced its Kubernetes project for orchestrating Docker containers, it was only a matter of time before a cloud provider, Google or otherwise, decided to make it into a feature and ...

Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group, will kick off the inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. (GeekWire File Photo) The Seattle region is emerging as the ...

SAN FRANCISCO---Microsoft got the cloud news rolling this morning thanks to a Dropbox collaboration, but Google just upped the ante with a deluge of its own additions on Tuesday morning. Unveiled ...

Docker radically changed the IT world as it was the product that popularized container technology. Containers, unlike virtual machines (VMs), do not virtualize an entire operating system (OS); instead ...

For many, Docker is the next big thing in cloud computing. But some big names---most notably Google---are now backing an alternative to this enormously influential technology. In December, one of ...