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Mirantis customer CloudVPS is using OpenStack to deliver a public cloud in the Netherlands. Cross-posted from Superuser. Guest Post: By Sunny Cai CloudVPS is one of the largest Dutch independent OpenStack providers that delivers advanced cloud solutions. With a team of 15 people, CloudVPS is one of the first in Europe to get started with OpenStack, and they are leading in the development …

Historically, the Kubernetes orchestrator has been focused on Linux-based workloads, but Windows has started to play a larger part in the ecosystem.

Docker Kubernetes Service (DKS) is a Certified Kubernetes distribution that is included with Docker Enterprise 3.0 and is designed to solve the fundamental challenge of Kubernetes’ operational complexity.

This week and next, we're bringing you the top 5 most popular blog posts about Docker Enterprise from 2019. The most popular post by far was a guest post by Ajeet Raina diving in to how to run Kubernetes on Docker Enterprise.  Ajeet is a Docker Captain. You can follow Ajeet on Twitter @ajeetsraina and read his blog at http://www.collabnix.com.  There …

VR Group is the state-owned company that runs Finnish Railways, and provides 82 million passenger train rides and transports 36 million tons of goods per year. The 150+ year old transportation business is broken into separate divisions, each with their own technology departments. Finnish Railways does not have an in-house development team, so each division leverages external vendors and partners for …

Danish insurance and banking company Alm. Brand demonstrates how they helped lift and shift their legacy WebLogic applications to Docker Enterprise.  

This guest post by Shawn Bower at Cornell University was originally published on the Docker blog. In my role as Cloud Architect I often hear, “Docker sounds great but it won’t work for my application.”  In my experience Docker can improve the state of many applications including legacy and vendor solutions.  The first production workload at Cornell on Docker was the …

Kubernetes at scale or in production involves new requirements around both initial setup and config and the ongoing management (aka Day 1 and Day 2 ops).

Docker EE is empowering Visa to make global economies safer by digitizing currency and making electronic payments available to everyone, everywhere.

We sat down recently with InterSystems, our partner and customer, to talk about how they deliver an enterprise database at scale to their customers. InterSystems’s software powers mission-critical applications at hospitals, banks, government agencies and other organizations. We spoke with Joe Carroll, Product Specialist, and Todd Winey, Director of Partner Programs at InterSystems about how containerization and Docker are helping transform their business. Here’s what they …

Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestrator and has been establishing itself as IT architects’ container orchestrator of choice. But Kubernetes’ power comes at a price; jumping into the cockpit of a state-of-the-art jet puts a lot of power under you, but knowing how to actually fly it is not so simple. That complexity can overwhelm a lot of people approaching …

Changing the culture and service offerings of a big consulting firm isn’t easy, but BCG has been on that path for the past five years. BCG has evolved from traditional consulting services into a digital transformation powerhouse with six divisions that deliver strategic and technical services to clients. One of those divisions, BCG Gamma, is a global team of world-class …

But how are organizations actually running Kubernetes on Docker Enterprise? What have they learned from their experiences?

You have to be willing to “fail fearlessly,” but to do that, you have to minimize the consequences and cost of failure so you can constantly try new ideas.

Société Générale wants 80% of the 153-year old multinational bank’s applications running in the cloud by 2020.